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# Vendors

Vendors are third-party suppliers whose products you sell on your store. This is how you list goods you do not hold yourself, giving customers a wider range than your own stock allows.

The usual arrangement is that you add the vendor's selling price as your cost price, then add your markup, and the store works out the selling price from that.

Once a vendor is set up and their products are loaded, you can see details such as cost price and stock on hand for their lines.

### Adding a Vendor

1. Click on Catalogue > Vendors
2. Click on the Create button
3. Fill in the vendor's details
4. Click the Create button

### Assigning Products to a Vendor

Creating the vendor on its own does nothing until products are linked to them.

1. Go to Catalogue > Products
2. Open the product you want to assign
3. Set the vendor on the product
4. Enter the cost price and your markup
5. Save the product

If a vendor holds the stock rather than you, you can also set them against a warehouse so stock is tracked at their location. See [Warehouses](/features/system/warehouses.md).

{% hint style="warning" %}
Check your markup on vendor products before going live. Because the selling price is calculated from the cost price, a markup entered incorrectly affects every product from that vendor at once.
{% endhint %}