# Start Here

<mark style="background-color:green;">**Welcome to Silkline, the platform that tracks orders and connects trading partners in one place.**</mark>

Silkline simplifies collaborating with vendors:

* Send digital purchase orders and automatically capture order acknowledgements
* Track open orders, identify exceptions, and send check-in requests
* Get notified when orders have updates and parts are received
* Capture supplier communications and document internal notes
* Intake purchase requests with a simple, easy form
* Provide requesters with visibility throughout the lifecycle of their request
* Send digital RFQs and automatically capture quotes
* Securely send files, including export-controlled files, with RFQs and POs
* Quickly convert quotes to purchase orders
* Sync data back to external systems

### Jump right in

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-cover data-type="files"></th><th data-hidden></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Overview</strong></td><td>Start with an overview of the Silkine workflow</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="https://github.com/Silkline/client-app/blob/development/docs/broken-reference/README.md">https://github.com/Silkline/client-app/blob/development/docs/broken-reference/README.md</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Requests</strong></td><td>Learn how to create and manage requests, including sending RFQs to suppliers</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="for-customers/requests">requests</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Quotes</strong></td><td>Learn how to add and manage quotes, including automatically converting a quote to an order</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="for-customers/quotes">quotes</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Orders</strong></td><td>Learn about how to manage, send, and track orders</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="for-customers/orders">orders</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Check-ins</strong></td><td>Learn how to send a check-in and capture updates to order ETA and status.</td><td></td><td></td><td><a href="for-customers/check-ins">check-ins</a></td></tr></tbody></table>