LineNow supports five ordering workflows because real procurement does not start from one place.
Sometimes you know exactly what you want and need to build a purchase order manually. Sometimes inventory tells you what is running low. Sometimes you want the system to auto-add items when they cross a threshold. Sometimes you want to ask AI to build the cart. Sometimes the order is a dropship sale that needs to turn into supplier POs without a stocked-inventory workflow.
The product demo shows all five paths:
This article maps the workflows in plain English.
Quick answer
LineNow supports five ordering workflows: manual purchase orders, inventory-based purchase orders, automated PO building, AI cart building, and dropshipping purchase orders. The important part is not just that the order can start from five places. It is that each path lands in the same living PO workflow, where supplier replies can update the order, receiving can verify against the current state, and accounting can receive cleaner purchase data.
1. Manual purchase orders
Manual ordering is the default when the buyer already knows what they want.
In LineNow, the buyer opens purchase orders, selects the supplier or source, searches products by name, SKU, or pack, enters quantities, adds notes, and creates the order. The order can then be sent to the supplier and tracked from the same workflow.
Manual POs matter because not every purchasing decision should be automated. A chef may need a special order for an event. A retailer may want to restock a seasonal item. A manufacturer may need a one-time component buy. The system should make manual ordering fast without forcing every order through a recommendation engine.