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title: Edit a purchase line from a purchase requisition or order
description: You can edit and revise the quantity of a product or delivery location of a purchase line directly from a purchase requisition or order. You can also view the existing or current quantity or delivery date of the purchase requisition or order.
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release: australia
product: Sourcing and Procurement Operations
classification: sourcing-and-procurement-operations
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 3
breadcrumb: [Purchase revision flows, Using Shopping Hub, Use, Sourcing and Procurement Operations, Finance and Supply Chain]
---

# Edit a purchase line from a purchase requisition or order

You can edit and revise the quantity of a product or delivery location of a purchase line directly from a purchase requisition or order. You can also view the existing or current quantity or delivery date of the purchase requisition or order.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_spend\_psd.requestor or shopper

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **ShoppingHub Home** > **My purchases**.

    Alternatively, you can edit a purchase from **Employee Center** > **Purchase and Expense** > **Purchase Requests** > **Edit a purchase**. For more information, see [Edit a purchase line from a purchase requisition or order from Employee Center \(EC\)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/source-to-pay-operations/sourcing-and-procurement-operations/edit-pur-req-emp-central.md).

2.  Select a purchase requisition or order and select **Edit**.

    \[Omitted image "spo-sh-select-po-and-edit.png"\] Alt text: Selecting a purchase order and editing it.

    You can also select the **More options** icon on the line and select **Edit** to modify the details of the purchase requisition or order.

    \[Omitted image "spo-edit-purchase-order.png"\] Alt text: Editing a purchase order fromMore options on a purchase line.

    **Note:** Remember that the **Edit** option isn’t available for purchases in the Closed state.

    The Edit a purchase page is displayed with the available purchase lines.

    \[Omitted image "spo-sh-edit-a-purchase-form.png"\] Alt text: Available purchase lines when you edit the details of the purchase requisition or order.

3.  Select the Open Preview icon to edit the quantity or delivery location of the purchase line.

    \[Omitted image "spo-sh-open-preview-po.png"\] Alt text: Open preview.

    The delivery location available for selection is filtered based on the countries supplier can deliver to.

4.  You can update the following details.

    \[Omitted image "spo-preview-purchase-line.png"\] Alt text: Editing and revising the quantity of a product or delivery location of a purchase line directly from a purchase order.

    **Note:** If it's a product, you will see Current delivery date and New delivery date fields, and if it's a service, you will see Current start date, New start date, Current end date, and New end date.

    For goods, we will show the fields related to delivery dates, for service lines, we show the fields related to service dates.

<table id="choicetable_xc4_3x3_fdc"><thead><tr><th align="left" id="d66184e196">

Field

</th><th align="left" id="d66184e199">

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td id="d66184e205">

**Current Quantity**

</td><td>

Displays the existing or current numerical quantity of the product to purchase.The current quantity can be viewed but not edited.

</td></tr><tr><td id="d66184e217">

**New Quantity**

</td><td>

Update the new numerical quantity of the product to purchase.You can view existing quantity by referring to the Current Quantity field.

</td></tr><tr><td id="d66184e228">

**Current delivery date**

</td><td>

**Important:** This field is applicable only for products.

Displays the existing or current delivery date of the product.The current delivery date can be viewed but not edited.

</td></tr><tr><td id="d66184e245">

**New delivery date**

</td><td>

**Important:** This field is applicable only for products.

Update the delivery date of the product according to your preference.

</td></tr><tr><td id="d66184e260">

**Current start date**

</td><td>

**Important:** This field is applicable only for services.

Displays the current start date of the service.The current start date can be viewed but not edited.

</td></tr><tr><td id="d66184e276">

**New start date**

</td><td>

**Important:** This field is applicable only for services.

Update the new start date of the service.

</td></tr><tr><td id="d66184e290">

**Current end date**

</td><td>

**Important:** This field is applicable only for services.

Displays the current start date of the service.The current start date can be viewed but not edited.

</td></tr><tr><td id="d66184e306">

**New end date**

</td><td>

**Important:** This field is applicable only for services.

Update the new end date of the service.

</td></tr><tr><td id="d66184e320">

**Would you like to edit something else?**

</td><td>

-   Select **Yes** if you want to edit something on the purchase order.
-   Select **No** if you don't have anything to update on the purchase order.


</td></tr><tr><td id="d66184e344">

**Why are you editing this purchase?**

</td><td>

Enter the reason for editing the purchase requisition or order.

</td></tr><tr><td id="d66184e354">

**Add attachments**

</td><td>

Browse and select the related attachments for updating the purchase requisition or order.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>5.  Select **Submit**.

    The purchase line is updated with the changes.


**Parent Topic:**[Purchase revision flows](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/source-to-pay-operations/sourcing-and-procurement-operations/purchase-revision-flows.md)