Supplier Tracker
Your payment history and supplier records live in tracker-data.json, in the same folder as this page.
- Click Open tracker folder.
- Choose the 00 SUPPLIER TRACKER folder (the one this page is in).
- When the browser asks, allow it to view and edit files. Choose "Allow on every visit" if offered.
Sign in with the Microsoft account that has your OneDrive. Your records stay in your OneDrive; this page keeps none of them.
Signed in as . Choose the tracker's data folder, the one with tracker-data.json (usually 00 SUPPLIER TRACKER).
There's no data yet in .
- If your data is already in a shared OneDrive folder (such as 00 SUPPLIER TRACKER), choose Use a different data folder and enter that folder.
- Otherwise start from your Online Payments Excel workbook.
View only:
Top 20 suppliers
| # | Supplier | Deliveries | Delivered | Share | Last delivery | C/A balance |
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Corporate checks by supplier
| Supplier | Checks | Total | Last | TIN |
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| Supplier | Amount | Status | Paid by | Bank | Weigh slip | Remarks |
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| Supplier | Bank | Account no. | TIN | Payments | This year | All time | Last payment |
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Balances by supplier
| Supplier | Advanced | Deducted | Balance | Open since | Last deduction |
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Recent C/A activity
| Date | Supplier | What | Amount | Remarks |
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A cash advance is a payment marked C/A, or the extra amount on a payment marked Overpaid. Deductions pay off the oldest open advance first. An advance is Finished once deductions cover it in full.
Data file
Every change saves straight to tracker-data.json. OneDrive then copies it to your other computers. The data folder keeps everything together: backups (the first save each day keeps the previous version), uploads (every payables report and workbook you upload, by date) and check-outbox (corporate checks for Check Writer). If two computers change the file at the same time, the tracker combines both sets of changes when it saves.
Check Writer link
Choose Corporate check → Check Writer on a payment (or set Paid by to Corporate). The tracker puts a request in the check-outbox folder inside the data folder. The Check Writer computer takes it from there the next time Check Writer is running, and its answer (queued as check #, printed, or turned down) shows here on the payment.
One-time setup on the Check Writer computer: make sure OneDrive syncs the data folder there, then set TrackerInbox → Directory in Check Writer's appsettings.json to its check-outbox folder, for exampleJ:\OneDrive\00 PROJECTS\JanWilbur Trading Corp\00 SUPPLIER TRACKER\check-outbox (write each \ as \\ in that file), and restart Check Writer.
Archive old years
Older payments go into a separate archive file in the data folder. They still count everywhere: Top 20, supplier history, cash advances. Only the everyday file gets smaller, so saving is faster, especially over the internet. Changing an archived payment moves it back into the everyday file.
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Re-import from Excel
The history came from .
A re-import replaces everything entered here since the last import. Use it only while you're still recording new payments in Excel. The current data is kept in backups first.