The Receiving app allows you to indicate that materials ordered through the creation of purchase order lines in the Orders app have been received by the library. You can open the app directly from the FOLIO app bar or from the Orders app by clicking Receive on the action menu of an order that has an Open or Closed status.
Definition of terms related to the Receiving app:
- Package. A purchase order that represents the acquisition of multiple titles.
- Piece. A subsection of a receiving title that is expected to be received. For example, if the ordered title is a journal subscription, then a piece of that title could be volume one of the journal.
- Receive. To confirm that an all or part of an order has been delivered to the library.
- Receiving title. The title of the ordered material. There may be one or more pieces attached.
- Unreceive. To indicate that an order previously listed as “received” has not been delivered to the library.