# Vendor

object type

A vendor — WHO SOLD to the merchant: the shared supplier MASTER (group pool), orthogonal to the Manufacturer (who built it). Deliberately thin: contact data is; the org-specific commercial payload (account#, terms, purchasing currency) IS the OrgVendor relationship (the enablement — no purchasing without an active one), arriving. The FIRST procurement-domain construct.

## Fields

| Field | Type | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | [ID](/types/#scalars) `ID!` | The record’s id — a UUID the platform assigned when the record was created; every reference to this record uses it. |
| `sysId` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | The group-scoped human-facing system id (VN-…). |
| `type` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | The kind of record — always `Vendor` here. |
| `caption` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | The record’s display name — what people see it called. |
| `status` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | The FSM state: active \| inactive \| doomed. |
| `parentId` | [ID](/types/#scalars) `ID!` | The parent org group; for a Vendor parentId === rootId. |
| `rootId` | [ID](/types/#scalars) `ID!` | The org-group family root. |
| `createdAt` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | When the record was created, as a UTC timestamp. |
| `updatedAt` | [String](/types/#scalars) `String!` | When the record last changed, as a UTC timestamp. |
| `revisionNum` | [Int](/types/#scalars) `Int!` | How many times this record has been edited; the first save is 0. |
| `revision` | [ID](/types/#scalars) `ID!` | The OCC revision token — supply it on every mutation of this record; rotates on every write. |
| `refCaptions` | [RefCaption](/types/RefCaption/) `[RefCaption!]!` | The server-composed captions of this record's declared references (the referenced-caption rule) — one row per referenced id; see RefCaption. |
| `code` | [String](/types/#scalars) | Optional mutable merchant reference code; uniqueness NOT enforced (the code stance). |

## Used by

- [createVendor](/reference/vendor/createVendor/)
- [deactivateVendor](/reference/vendor/deactivateVendor/)
- [doomVendor](/reference/vendor/doomVendor/)
- [reactivateVendor](/reference/vendor/reactivateVendor/)
- [updateVendor](/reference/vendor/updateVendor/)
- [vendor](/reference/vendor/vendor/)
- [vendors](/reference/vendor/vendors/)