Suppliers: Archived Status, Legal Name, And Cost-Driven Relationships

Three updates to Suppliers.

Archived suppliers show as Archived. An archived supplier used to still show Active or Inactive on the list and detail page, because archiving only marked the record archived and left the underlying status alone. The badge now shows Archived when the supplier is archived, so the status column matches the detail page. Archiving from the detail page or quick view also keeps the page open, so the archived banner and the Archived badge update in place instead of the view closing.

Suppliers carry a Legal Name alongside their display name, so the name that appears on paperwork and accounting records does not have to be the same one shown in the app. Legal Name is available in the Add Supplier dialog, editable from the Company Details card on the supplier’s detail page, and shown as a sortable column on the Suppliers list. Optional throughout — empty renders as an em-dash — and searchable from the Suppliers list search box. The existing Supplier Name column and the Edit Name action have been renamed to Supplier Display Name and Edit Display Name, so it is clear which name a screen is reading.

Supplier–product relationships now come from product costs. Adding a product cost for a supplier creates the relationship on its own, and archived relationships are restored on the same signal. Purchase orders no longer create these relationships as a side effect, so a purchase order for a supplier that has never quoted a cost for a product does not link the two. Imports keep the supplier’s minimum order quantity intact: the supplier link is created before its costs, so the imported MOQ is not overwritten by the default. Purchase order line lookups read cost and MOQ from the supplier relationship directly.