# Create a Purchase

### How to Create a Purchase in Muhasib ERP

### Overview

This guide will help you record a supplier purchase with correct items, costs, stock location, and settlement terms.

Muhasib records the purchase and may update inventory, cost, supplier payable, tax, and payment ledgers.

### Who can do this

You need access to Purchase plus supplier, item, location, batch/serial, account, tax, and payment.

### Before you start

Have the supplier invoice, receipt evidence, quantities, costs, discounts, taxes, locations, payment terms, and approval.

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Back Office → Purchases &amp; Suppliers → Purchase.

### Create a Purchase

#### Step 1: Start a new purchase and select the supplier

#### Step 2: Enter invoice date, supplier invoice number, due date, and reference

#### Step 3: Add each item and received quantity

#### Step 4: Confirm unit, cost, discount, tax, location, batch, serial, and expiry

Confirm unit, cost, discount, tax, location, batch, serial, and expiry details.

#### Step 5: Enter additional costs and payment/credit treatment as supported

Enter more costs and payment/credit treatment as supported.

#### Step 6: Reconcile subtotal, tax, charges, and total to the supplier document

#### Step 7: Save once

### Check your work

Compare and Confirm the saved document to supplier invoice, stock ledger, item cost, supplier ledger, tax, and general ledger.

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- Treat supplier plus invoice number as a duplicate-control key.
- Search for the document before retrying after a timeout.

### Related guides

- [Create a Taxed Purchase](https://docs.muhasiberp.com/link/379)
- [Find and Add Purchase Items](https://docs.muhasiberp.com/link/380)
- [Return a Purchase](https://docs.muhasiberp.com/link/384)

### What to do next

<div id="bkmrk-%E2%9C%85-next-actioncontinu" style="border-left: 4px solid #16a34a; background: #f0fdf4; padding: 12px 16px; margin: 15px 0; border-radius: 4px;">[**Create a Taxed Purchase**](https://docs.muhasiberp.com/link/379).</div>