The My Demands screen
My Demands lists every demand you have created as a card. Each card shows the demand's status, title, listing number (the number starting with MP-), category, delivery country, currency, creation time and offer deadline. If the demand has received offers, the offer count appears on the card as well. Published, closed and completed cards also carry an offer summary strip (Offers, Lowest, Average, Highest); if no offers have arrived yet, that strip reads No offers yet.
Clicking a card opens draft demands in the editing screen, while published and closed demands take you to the demand screen (the offer and detail view).
Search, filtering and sorting
Use the Filters panel on the left to narrow the list.
- Search box: searches by title, description, category, product name or the listing number starting with MP-. The list refreshes on its own once you stop typing.
- Status chips: Draft, Published, Closed, Cancelled. Each chip shows how many demands are in that status. You can select more than one chip; if you select none, all of your demands are listed.
- Category, Delivery country and Currency filters.
- Created date: enter a From and To date to see a specific period.
- Offer count: with a Min and Max value you can, for example, isolate demands that have received no offers at all or more than five offers.
- Clear filters resets every filter at once.
The Sort box at the bottom of the panel lets you choose Newest, By closing date (those with an approaching offer deadline first) or Most offers. The number of matching demands is shown above the list.
Demand statuses
- Draft — not published yet, invisible to suppliers, and you can change it however you like.
- Published — the demand is open on the marketplace and suppliers can submit offers.
- Closed — the demand has been closed and no new offers are accepted.
- Cancelled — the demand has been cancelled and suppliers can no longer submit offers.
- Completed — the demand has turned into orders. When you accept a single offer, the demand moves to this status immediately; when you split the lines across several suppliers, it moves once every order tied to the demand has been confirmed. In both cases the system makes this transition on its own.
Actions on a card
Draft cards carry Publish and Continue buttons: Publish opens the demand to suppliers, and Continue reopens an unfinished demand in the editing screen. On published, closed or completed cards, the View offers button opens the demand screen.
The ⋮ button on the right of the card (More actions) offers these options:
- View offers — opens the demand screen.
- Edit — opens a draft demand in the editing screen.
- Duplicate (new demand) — creates a copy of the demand as a new draft.
- Messages — opens the correspondence panel tied to the demand.
- Close — closes a published demand.
Key rule: editing locks after the first offer
The moment the first offer arrives, a demand can no longer be edited. This rule is enforced both on screen and on the record side; you cannot change a demand that has received an offer from the editing screen. On the demand screen you will see this notice: "The demand can no longer be edited once the first offer has arrived. You can cancel it or review the offers." (If the arrival time of the first offer is known, the notice states that too.)
So before any offer arrives you can correct a published demand with Edit demand; once the first offer lands, the demand screen leaves you two paths: evaluate the offers or cancel the demand.
Closing and cancelling
Close: you can close a published demand from the ⋮ menu in the list. The screen first asks for confirmation: "Close this demand? All suppliers will be notified." When you choose Yes, close, the demand drops off the marketplace and no new offers are accepted. The Close demand button on the demand screen, on the other hand, appears only while no offers have arrived at all, and it asks "Close this demand without awarding an offer?"
Cancel: on the demand screen, the Cancel demand button appears after the first offer arrives. The confirmation window opens with the title "Cancel demand?" and states: "This demand will be cancelled and suppliers can no longer submit offers. This cannot be undone." When you choose Yes, cancel it, the demand is cancelled and you return to the My Demands list. A cancellation cannot be undone; if you want to open a similar demand, use the duplicate route.
Duplicate (new demand)
Duplicate (new demand) takes the selected demand's title, description, category, delivery details, product list and files, creates a new draft from them, and opens that draft in the editing screen. Two points to watch:
- If the offer deadline on the copy exceeds the longest period your package allows, it is automatically pulled back to that limit.
- Fields used on the source demand that your package does not cover today (accepted currencies and countries, the Incoterm list, the payment terms request, the target delivery date) are not carried over to the copy.
Tabs on the demand screen
When you open a demand, its status, listing number and key information appear at the top, with the tabs below. The three tabs you will use most while managing a demand are:
- Offers — incoming offers, comparison and acceptance actions.
- Details — the demand as suppliers see it: description, product table (on detailed demands), delivery country and point, delivery term (Incoterm), accepted currencies and countries, documents and images.
- Messages — supplier correspondence tied to the demand.