Vendor price comparison

Once a product has more than one purchase option — a second supplier, brand, or pack — the Vendors tab in Reports lets you compare them at a glance and spot where you're leaving money on the table.

What it shows

Every product you buy two or more ways gets a card, sorted so the biggest price gap — your largest savings opportunity — is on top. Each card lists its options side by side:

• $/unit — the price of one of the product's counting units (its "$/lb", "$/each", …), so a Sysco case and a Costco tube compare directly even though the packs are different sizes. It's computed from each option's last known pack price divided by how many units the pack holds.
• Cheapest — the option with the lowest $/unit is flagged, as long as at least two options carry a price.
• $/pack and pack — the raw pack price and pack size behind the $/unit figure.
• Last received — when that option last showed up on a receipt, so you can tell a live price from a stale one.

Expand Show price history to see each option's delivered price per unit over the last 90 days, one line per supplier.

Where the numbers come from

The current price is each option's own cost memory — the last per-pack price you paid, remembered on the option. Receiving against an option updates that memory (see purchase options). The report never invents a price and never fires a price alert — it only reads what your receipts already recorded.

Acting on it

• The order list does the same math live: when a product is meaningfully cheaper from another option than the one a line is set to, a tappable Cheaper chip offers to switch the line to it — see the order list.
• Every card links to the full product report if you want the complete lifecycle view for one product.