When to use it
In an itemised (line-by-line) demand, one supplier is rarely the best on every line. One may quote a better price on marble slabs, another on travertine blocks. Splitting lets you award each line to a different supplier, turning a single demand into several orders.
The split board opens under the heading Split Award Board once you have screened the offers and moved on to comparison. The screen describes itself like this: "Build the line→supplier split, track each supplier's approval, re-assign a declined line."
Building the split
- In the comparison table, every product row ends with an Award basket column. From the list in this column, pick the supplier you want to award that line to. Only the suppliers that priced that line appear in the list.
- The selection list never opens empty: each line comes pre-filled with the supplier offering the lowest EUR-equivalent amount for that line. You change what you want to change and leave the rest as it is.
- Your selections are listed by supplier immediately below the table; each row shows how many lines that supplier has won and the EUR-equivalent subtotal.
- The Optimal split button re-assigns every line to the supplier with the best price on that line — which also resets any manual changes you made. In the table, those cells are marked with the cheapest badge.
- If a single supplier can cover all the lines on its own, a comparison line appears beneath the table: if the split is cheaper, "Single supplier (…): … · Optimal split: … — … saved", and if it is not, "Single supplier is cheaper (…)". This calculation does not cover line prices alone; it also apportions expenses and tax.
Read the warnings
If your split breaks up an offer, a warning with its reasoning appears under the Split warning heading. These do not stop you — they help you decide.
- Non-splittable line: the supplier ships that line only bundled with its own other lines. The line's cell in the table shows the Non-splittable tag; awarding that line separately breaks the offer.
- Shared expense warning: if the freight and packaging expense covers the whole offer, awarding only some of the lines orphans that shared expense. In the supplier column header, the expense is shown as Expense/Shipping · shared.
Sending it for supplier approval
When you click Finalize split, orders are not created straight away. The split is sent to the winning suppliers, and each one approves or declines its own slice from its own screen. From this stage on, the comparison table is replaced by the list of supplier approvals.
The Split Award Board
In the Supplier approvals section, every supplier is listed with the number of lines it won and its subtotal. The status badge beside it takes three values: Pending, Approved, Declined.
Until the approvals are complete, the note "Waiting on all suppliers to approve before starting orders." stays at the bottom and the Start orders button is disabled. Once they have all approved, that line changes to "All suppliers approved — ready to start … orders." and the button becomes available, with the number of suppliers that orders will be opened for shown in parentheses. When you press it, the board displays "Orders started — awaiting supplier confirmation."
Re-assigning a declined line
If a supplier declines its slice, the lines in that slice drop into the Re-source section at the very top of the board. Each row reads "… — declined by …. Re-assign."; if the supplier gave a reason, that appears on the row as well.
When you press Re-assign, the other suppliers that priced that line are listed with their ratings and their line-level amounts. The list also covers suppliers that submitted an offer after you built the split; the supplier that declined does not appear in it. When you pick one, the line moves to them and that supplier's slice returns to Pending. If no other suitable supplier is available, you will see the message "No other eligible supplier quoted this line."
This is a higher-plan feature
Split orders and the multi-supplier handshake are open to the paid buyer plans (Pro and Business); they are closed on the free plan. If your plan does not cover it, the board does not open at all — in its place you see the Pro feature badge, the note "Split/partial award + the multi-order handshake are a Pro feature." and the Upgrade to Pro button.