No purchase order - no pay
Cheshire West and Chester Council is unable to pay invoices without an official council purchase order.
If you supply of goods and/or services to the Council, you should not accept any verbal or written order from any member of our staff without a Purchase Order number.
Why has this been done?
We have upgraded our payment system to reduce the time it takes to pay suppliers if a purchase order number is quoted.
Our standard payment terms are 30 days from date of invoice.
The upgrade also means increased efficiency and reduced payment costs to the Council.
Valid PO number sequence for Cheshire West and Chester
All Valid PO numbers for Cheshire West and Chester are in the format 1nnnnnnnnn where 'n' is a number.
Returned invoices
If you have had an invoice returned requesting a valid Purchase Order number be quoted, you should contact the Cheshire West and Chester Council member of staff who gave the original instruction to supply the goods or services and ask them to provide your purchase order number.
Once you have it, send a replacement invoice, quoting the valid PO number to:
Payments Section
Cheshire West and Chester
PO Box 3657
Chester
CH1 9PR