Feature Request: Allow edit or deleting of vendors and suppliers

Retail & Point of Sale
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Topic summary

Merchants request the ability to edit and delete vendor/supplier records in Shopify Admin and the Stocky app (Shopify’s purchase order/inventory tool). They also want a centralized vendor list with contact details and payment terms, plus role-based permissions so only the account owner can delete entries. POS = point of sale.

Key asks:

  • Edit typos and remove or merge duplicates in both Admin and Stocky.
  • Limit delete permissions to the account owner (or tightly controlled roles).
  • Case-insensitive vendor sorting to prevent separate listings for ALL CAPS vs lowercase.

Pain points: staff occasionally create duplicates or misspellings; the inability to edit/delete blocks data cleanup and vendor management. One user reported spending over an hour with support without a resolution and expressed strong frustration about managing purchasing without vendor controls.

Status: multiple users agree on the need; no workaround or official response appears in the thread. The request remains open, seeking basic CRUD controls and consistent sorting for vendors/suppliers.

Summarized with AI on December 12. AI used: gpt-5.
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Sometimes staff double up by creating a vendor or supplier with incorrect spelling or by other means. We NEED two things:

  1. In Admin - a vendor list we can reference - that allows us to input vendor information (such as contact info, payment terms etc). Within this vendor list, we need to be able to EDIT MISTAKES. We need to be able to DELETE ones created in error or duplicates. This MUST include limitations on who can delete anything so we can leave it as the account owner only having the ability to delete things.

  2. In Stocky - we need to be able to EDIT MISTAKES. We need to be able to DELETE vendors and or suppliers created in error or duplicates. This MUST include limitations on who can delete anything so we can leave it as the account owner only having the ability to delete things.

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Totally agree - we could use that as well. Also, it sorts vendors differently printed in caps verses lower case.

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I AGREE!! I’ve been on the chat with support for over an HOUR now!! I can’t believe I have NO option to edit/delete vendors. Isn’t Shopify a POS app to help us sell things?? How in the heck can we sell things to customers if we can’t buy and mange our things with our vendors?? What genius thought that this was a good way to go?? So frustrated.

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