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Goods Received Note (GRN)

Updated over a month ago

This setting is relevant for the Xero Purchase Order workflow. The GRN functionality is part of the Advanced and Premium plans.

You can use the setting Goods Received Note (GRN)* in the Purchase Order workflow to track the Goods Received (GR) status in Purchase Orders.

This is how you enable Goods Received Notes:

  • Find your Organisation in the main menu and go to Approval workflows under Workflows and settings.

  • Open the Purchase Order workflow and click on the Gear icon:


  • In the General section, go to the Goods Received Note (GRN) setting and select "Yes, enable this feature":

  • Apply your settings by clicking on SAVE CHANGES in the upper right-hand corner of the Workflow Settings window and update/activate the workflow.

This is how it works:

The Purchase Order Requester, the Approvers and the Organisation Administrators can track the delivery statuses Not Received, Partially Received and Fully Received, and also set/change the delivery status for approved Purchase Orders.

To do so, click on the UPDATE STATUS button and select one of the options in the drop-down list (optionally, attachments and comments can be added):


All changes are reflected in the Purchase Order's audit trail, which details who changed what and when as well as any comments and attachments.

Please note: The Goods Received status will only be available when the Purchase Order has been fully approved. The people stated above can change the status without any restrictions.

Important note: The GRN functionality in ApprovalMax is only available for Purchase Orders with the Approved status. The GR status is pushed to Xero History if the respective setting is turned on.

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