Customers & Suppliers
JennyERP keeps your customers and suppliers as contact records, each with one or more contact persons, a full transaction history and a running balance.
Customers
Go to Customers to add and manage the people you sell to. Each customer record carries:
- Code and name (code is auto-suggested, e.g.
C-1234, and editable) - Country, city and address
- A contact person, email and phone
- Tax ID (e.g. VAT number)
- Payment terms — Prepaid, Net 15, Net 30, Net 45, Net 60 or Net 90
- The assigned salesperson
Add a customer with Customers → New; open any customer to view detail or Edit.
The customer detail page leads with a row of financial cards — including Total sales, Total received and Outstanding — and then organizes everything into tabs (see Party detail tabs below).
Sort and filter
The customer list can be searched (name, code, email, city, country), filtered by country, and sorted by name, total sales or outstanding balance.
Suppliers
Go to Suppliers to manage the parties you buy from. JennyERP recognises that fabric sourcing involves more than one kind of vendor, so every supplier is given a category:
| Group | Category | Use for |
|---|---|---|
| Supplier | Finished fabric | Vendors who sell ready, finished fabric |
| Supplier | Greige (raw) | Vendors who supply greige / raw fabric |
| Factory | Processing mill | General processing / OEM |
| Factory | Dyeing mill | Dyeing |
| Factory | Printing mill | Printing |
| Factory | Weaving mill | Weaving |
| Factory | Finishing mill | After-finishing |
| Factory | Embroidery mill | Embroidery |
The supplier list can be filtered by any of these categories, and each row is colour-tagged by type. The detail page leads with Total purchase, Total paid and Outstanding cards and then uses the same tabbed layout as customers (see below).
Party detail tabs
A customer's or supplier's detail page is organized into tabs, so the full relationship lives on one screen:
| Tab | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Overview | The information panel (code, contact details, terms, salesperson…) alongside the contacts list |
| Documents | The party's related documents, grouped into sub-tabs by type — e.g. sales orders (or purchase orders), quotations and inquiries — each with a count, status and amount |
| Receipts / Payments | Money in from a customer (Receipts) or money out to a supplier (Payments) |
| Statement | A running statement — every document and payment in date order, with a running balance |
| Activity | A timeline of everything that's happened, documents and money together, newest first |
The Statement tab is the one to reach for when you need to reconcile: it shows the full give-and-take with a party and the balance after each entry.
Contact persons
Beyond the company record, you can keep several contact persons for each customer or supplier. From a party's detail page, the Contacts panel lets you add, edit and delete contacts. Each contact holds:
- Name (required)
- Phone
This keeps the buyer, the merchandiser and the accounts person on the same record, so anyone on your team can reach the right person.
Why it matters
Because contacts link to orders, payments and contact persons, you always know:
- Who owes you money, and how much (accounts receivable)
- Who you owe, and how much (accounts payable)
- Which factory does dyeing, printing, weaving or finishing for a given fabric
- The full history — and the right person to call — with each party
See the Reports section for receivable and payable summaries and per-party statements.