Manually trigger a purchase order import

You can run a purchase order import on demand without waiting for the next scheduled run. This is useful when:

• A supplier, drop-ship platform, or EDI partner just dropped a new PO and you want to see it in DropStream now.
• The schedule is infrequent and you need to pull a specific PO through.
• You changed something on the source side and want to verify the next pull.

Trigger an import

1. Click Connections in the left sidebar, then click the connection name.
2. On the Channels tab, find the Purchase Orders card.
3. Click the refresh icon to the right of Import schedule on the card. A confirmation dialog opens.
4. Click Import to start the run.

The import runs in the background. New POs appear in Purchase Orders > Purchases as they’re processed; refresh the list (or watch the Last completed time on the channel card) to see when the run finishes.

Status updates are a separate trigger

The Purchase Orders channel has a second sub-schedule, Status update schedule, that pushes fulfillment status from the warehouse back to the source system. It has its own refresh icon next to its row on the channel card. Triggering an Import does not push status updates, and vice versa — they run independently.

Notes

• A manual import does not reset the schedule — the next scheduled run still happens at its normal time.
• You can’t trigger an import while the channel is disabled. The card shows a Disabled badge and the icons are greyed out. Enable the Purchase Orders toggle on the card first, then trigger.
• If the connection itself is disabled, the channel card icons are greyed out — enable the connection first from its page header.