Purchase Order with General Terms and Conditions

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Introduction

When it needs to procure supplies from a materials supplier, a repeat customer often opens a customer accounts to which it will charge all of its purchases. Once the account is opened, the standard practice for the following transactions is that the client issues successive purchase orders. In order to standardize the content of the purchase orders they receive, many retailers use a form to be signed by customers when issuing the order. The following document establishes, for the benefit of the supplier, the legal framework of such an approach.

Description

The Purchase Order is the legal instrument which evidences the transaction by which a person, the purchaser, agrees with a second person, the supplier, to purchase the goods for which an accurate description has been given from the latter and to pay the price for such goods.

Use

We recommend the use of this document as a framework to govern the legal relationship resulting from the purchase by an entrepreneur or a contractor of materials necessary for the construction of a project. This text is generally reproduced on a printed form issued by the supplier upon receipt of the order which is then countersigned by the representative of the purchaser at the time of the order.