What is the difference between a Vendor vs. Company?

[ryan941]

What use cases would you use a Vendor vs. when you would utilize a Company?

[Steve McCarty]

If you are using asset management and procurement you may want to filter your company list based off of that checkbox.   You probably don't want to assign assets to a vendor.   You want those to be assigned to your company (or companies in our case).   When doing a purchase order you only want to see vendors when you are filling in the Vendor field.   It just gives you flexibility for filtering the list for different forms.

-Steve

[Nate23]

just as robert said think of it as a vendor is a company but a company is not always a vendor as per the check box. There should be a simple reference qualifier on the vendor field vendor = true.