Buyer Admin documentation
Contract Module
Buyer Admin: How do I create a local contract?
Buyer Admin: How do I approve a Framework?
Buyer Admin: Introduction to the Contract Module
Buyer Admin: Contract Spend Analysis
Buyer Admin: How do I manage data within a live local contract?
Buyer Admin: How do I approve or reject Local Contracts?
Buyer Admin: How do I bulk upload local contracts to the Contract Module?
The Purchasing Homepage and Administration Interface
Buyer Admin: How can I customise the Homepage for my organisation?
Buyer Admin: How do I create a Marketplace News article?
Buyer Admin: Introduction to the Administration interface
Workflow Editor
End User Management
Buyer Admin: Insights - How do I give access to users?
Buyer Admin - How do I deactivate a user's account?
Buyer Admin - Can I update a user's name if their name changes?
Buyer Admin: How do I re-activate a user?
Buyer Admin - How do I create new end user accounts (basket punchout)?
Sustainability (ESG) Module
Buyer Admin: Sustainability - Reporting on the ESG Insights Dashboard
Buyer Admin: How do I map sustainability attributes (supplier and global)?
Buyer Admin: An introduction to Sustainability Data on Purchasing
Buyer Admin: How do I create my own organisation specific sustainability attributes for suppliers?
Buyer Admin: How do I approve a supplier level Global Sustainability Attribute?
Supplier Catalogue Management
Buyer Admin: The Supplier Onboarding Module (SIM) overview
Buyer Admin: How do I bulk invite suppliers to my Purchasing marketplace?
Buyer Admin: How do I make a hidden catalogue visible again?
Buyer Admin: How do I hide an entire supplier's catalogue?
Buyer Admin: How do I connect with a supplier on my Purchasing marketplace?
Buyer Admin: How do I export a supplier catalogue?
Buyer Admin: Price Approval - How do I approve or reject a price file?
Buyer Admin - How can I change an item's visibility or status?
Buyer Admin: How do I mark an entire supplier catalogue as 'Preferred'?
Supplier documentation
Managing catalogue data on the Supplier Portal
Supplier: How do I complete the OneAdvanced data templates?
Supplier: How do I upload my products?
Supplier: How do I add delivery charges to my catalogue?
UNSPSC Version Update Guide
Supplier: How do I hide a product from a buyer(s)?
Supplier: How do I amend catalogue pricing?
Supplier: How do I upload PDF documents to my products?
Supplier: How do I maintain leading zeros on a .csv download?
Supplier: How do I create new products individually?
Supplier: How do I export my catalogue?
Supplier: eClass codes
Supplier: How do I approve a price file?
Supplier: Catalogue Management tab - What does each file status mean?
Supplier: How do I upload images to my catalogue?
Supplier: How do I provide catalogue pricing?
Supplier: How do I delete products from my catalogue?
Supplier: Catalogue Management tab: How do I use the filtering options
Supplier: How do I edit my product data?
Supplier: Why has my price file failed?
Supplier: How do I amend a catalogue number?
Trader suppliers
Search and product visibility
Supplier: How do my products appear on Purchasing?
Supplier: The Purchasing Search: An overview for suppliers
Supplier: How do I find out if a product is currently visible to my buyers?
Contract Module
Supplier: Introduction to the Contract Module
Supplier: How do I update an active contract?
Supplier: Contract spend analysis
Supplier: How do I export contract data from the Contract Module?
Supplier: How do I activate a framework contract?
Supplier: How do I set up a local contract?
Sustainability Module
Supplier: How do I tag my products with sustainability attributes (Global and Supplier)?
Supplier: How do I tag my organisation against a global sustainability attribute?
Supplier: How do I create and manage supplier sustainability attributes?
Supplier: How can I see which of my products have sustainability attributes already assigned?
Supplier: How do I remove a sustainability attribute from my data?
Supplier: An introduction to managing sustainability data
Supplier: Sustainability - Reporting on the ESG Insights Dashboard
eQuotes
Insights reporting
Supplier Insights: Categorisation (UNSPSC) Dashboard
Supplier: How can I view Insights reports?
Supplier Insights: On and Off Catalogue Orders
Orders and Invoices
Supplier: Purchase Orders
Supplier: How do I resend a rejected e-invoice?
Supplier: PO flip invoicing
Supplier: How can I review any invoice rejections?
Updating my profile
Buyer End User documentation
Buyer User Guide: How do I use the eQuotes module?
Buyer User Guide: How do I configure my Homepage?
Buyer User Guide: End User (eReqs and basket workflow users only): Multi Factor Authentication for logins
Buyer User Guide: How do I 'favourite' a product?
Buyer User Guide: How do I search for sustainable products?
Buyer User Guide: How do I create and use Saved Baskets?
Buyer User Guide: How do I download a PDF copy of my Purchase Order?
Buyer User Guide: The Purchasing Homepage
Buyer User Guide: How do I raise a free text order?
Supported Frameworks
Buyer Insights: On and Off Catalogue Orders
Buyer User Guide: Searching on the Purchasing marketplace
Buyer User Guide: How do I customise Insights on the homepage?
Release Notes & Product Roadmap
Release Notes
2025
2025-07-24 Release Notes
2025-07-10 Release Notes
2025-06-26 Release Notes
2025-05-30 Release Notes
2025-05-01 Release Notes
2025-04-04 Release Notes
2025-03-20 Release Notes
2025-03-06 Release Notes
2025-02-20 Release Notes
2025-08-21 Release Note
2024
2024-10-31 Release Notes
2024-10-17 Release Notes
2024-10-03 Release Notes
2024-09-05 Release Notes
2024-07-18 Release Notes
2024-06-20 Release Notes
2024-06-06 Release Notes
2024-05-23 Release Notes
2024-05-09 Release Notes
2024-04-18 Release Notes
2024-02-22 Release Notes
2024-01-18 Release Notes
2023
2023-12-11 Release Notes
2023-11-23 Release Notes
2023-11-09 Release Notes
2023-10-26 Release Notes
2023-10-12 Release Notes
2023-09-28 Release Notes
2023-08-30 Release Notes
2023-08-17 Release Notes
2023-08-03 Release Notes
2023-07-06 Release Notes
2023-06-22 Release Notes
2023-06-07 Release Notes
2023-05-24 Release Notes
2023-05-11 Release Notes
2023-04-27 Release Notes
2023-04-13 Release Notes
2023-03-30 Release Notes
2023-03-16 Release Notes
2023-03-02 Release Notes
2023-02-16 Release Notes
2023-02-02 Release Notes
2023-01-19 Release Notes
2022
2022-12-08 Release Notes
2022-10-13 Release Notes
2022-08-18 Release Notes
2022-08-04 Release Notes
2022-07-07 Release Notes
2022-06-23 Release Notes
2022-06-09 Release Notes
2022-05-26 Release Notes
2022-04-28 Release Notes
2022-03-03 Release Notes
2022-02-17 Release Notes
2022-01-13 Release Notes
2021
2021-11-25 Release Notes
2021-10-14 Release Notes
2021-09-30 Release Notes
2021-09-14 Release Notes
2021-09-11 Release Notes
2021-09-02 Release Notes
2021-08-19 Release Notes
2021-08-05 Release Notes
2021-07-22 Release Notes
2021-07-08 Release Notes
2021-06-24 Release Notes
2021-06-17 Release Notes
2021-05-27 Release Notes
2021-04-08 Release Notes Amendments Service
2021-03-04 Release Notes
2021-02-04 Release Notes
2021-01-21 Release Notes
2020-12-17 Release Notes
Product Roadmap
Marketplace (Purchasing) Video Content
Video - Purchasing Overview Project v1
Video - Saved Baskets and Favourites
Video - eOligo Module
Video - eServices Module
Video - Managing Internal Catalogues
Video - eQuotes
Video - Free Format
Video - eCatalogue Overview
Video - Supplier Insights
Video - Basket Workflow
Video - eFinancials Integration.mp4
Video - Punchouts
Video - Contract Management
Video - PO Flip eInvoicing
Video - Price Approval
Video - eRequisitions
Video - Sustainability Module - Buyers and Suppliers
Video - Buyer Insights
The OneAdvanced Customer Support Portal
Admin: How can I assign a User the 'Contract Manager' role on the Customer Support Portal?
Admin: How can I remove a User from the Customer Support Portal?
How do I access the OneAdvanced Customer Support Portal?
Admin: How do I approve a new User on the Customer Support Portal?
How to raise a Support case?
Customer Portal Guide
Admin: How can I find my organisation's Registration Code?
Admin: How can I grant Admin permissions to a User on the Customer Support Portal?
How can I raise a finance case with OneAdvanced?
Logging into the Purchasing Marketplace
Buyer Admin: Accessing locked admin log-ins (including forgotten password)
Supplier: Multi Factor Authentication when logging in
Supplier: How do I request a new supplier portal login to be created?
Buyer Admin - How do I access my admin account?
Setting up MFA in Google Chrome Extension
Supplier: How do I reset my Purchasing account password?
Buyer Admin: Multi Factor Authentication for logins
Inactive User Account - How can I reactivate my marketplace login?
Setting up MFA in Microsoft Authenticator and Removing an Existing QR code
MFA Browser Extensions
Table of Contents
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- Supplier documentation
- Managing catalogue data on the Supplier Portal
- Supplier: Why has my price file failed?
Supplier: Why has my price file failed?
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Why has my price file failed?
From the Catalogue Management tab you will be able to see if your price upload has failed.
We have two failure statuses for price uploads: Failed and Scanning Rejected. To understand in more detail why your price upload has failed, you need to click the blue View Job button on the right hand side. From there, you will be able to review any rejection reasons and download any reports available to help you pinpoint the product(s) or data point that is causing the issue:

Common reasons why a price file has failed:
- Unable to detect type of file - where the formatting of your file is so dissimilar from the template we cannot detect the file type. Please download the price template from the Catalogue Management tab and only use this.
- Incorrect file format - your price file must be .xls, .xlsx or .csv
- Amended or additional column headers - only use the column headers provided, and do not add or amend these, as the system needs to match to the headers exactly.
- Currency symbols within the file (such as £) - only numerical values are allowed
- Prices contain more than four decimal places (please see below for more information on this)
- Inclusion of thousand comma separators in the pricing (e.g. 1,000) – the portal will not accept these
- Pricing of 0.00 or left blank - pricing can only be uploaded as numerical values of HIDE, POA (price on application) or FOC (free of charge). Zero (0) or blank pricing cells will cause the full price file to be rejected by the portal.
- Duplicate products - the portal cannot accept duplicate catalogue numbers in price files and this will cause the full file to fail (please note this doesn't apply to volume break price files). Check the duplicate report for details of the exact product(s) causing this.
- Products don't exist - you can only apply pricing for items that have been loaded successfully into your catalogue previously. The portal will fail any files that contain brand new items that do not exist in the current catalogue.
- Conflicting pending price files - the portal will not allow you to apply new pricing for items that are part of a pending price update already and will fail any price files in full if they contain such items. You should either approve / reject the pending file as required (check the available reports for details of the specific products and upload in question), OR if the price file is 'pending buyer approval', please contact our Customer Support team to reject the file on your behalf so you can then upload your new file.
- Blank pricing columns - delete any buyer pricing columns for buyers where you do not wish to update their pricing
Decimal place formatting issues
All pricing on Purchasing must not exceed four decimal places.
Please be aware that if your excel file is saved as .xls or .xlsx, and you format the field to only show 4 decimal places or less, Excel will retain the original number in the background causing issues upon upload. See formula field vs highlighted field below:

Solutions
- Manually adjust the number of decimal places in the field
- Save the file as .csv and the cell formatting will be retained