What is the Suppliers page for?

One record per supplier for the whole group, however many Xero organisations trade with it, ranked by what the group spends. Each row carries spend this year and last, how many companies use it, what is outstanding and overdue, the last bill, the credit headroom and any held bills; a click opens the supplier's card. The records are built by Contact Harmonisation from every organisation's contacts — this page reads them, it does not create them. You enter: A search — the golden name, VAT number, company number or email; Which column the group is ranked by: a header click on a ranked column re-orders the whole group on the server, so page one is genuinely the top; Top suppliers — every supplier in the current order as an Excel workbook; Link related brands and the suggested brand families, where one management runs several trading names. Saral fills: The golden record itself: name, type (a CIS subcontractor is badged), VAT and company number, email, how many Xero organisations hold it and how many BillScan bills name it, its review status and when it was last recomputed; Spend this financial year and last, the number of companies trading with it, outstanding net of credits, overdue and the last bill date — the card's own figures, totalled across the group; Credit available from the credit register and the count of held bills, where those are known; a dash where they are not. It produces: The ranked supplier list and its Top suppliers workbook; The door to each supplier's card — bills, orders, spend, identity, bank details and risk in one place. Where the settings live: The golden records are made, merged and split on Accounts → Contact Harmonisation; a wrong match is fixed there, not here. Credit lines and limits are the Credit & performance register. The account-opening form and its profiles are Accounts → Settings → Account Opening. Who may open this page is the invoices permission on the role.