# Vendor Lead

> Idea is to use Lead to manage both Sales and Purchases sides.

**Goal:** Functional

**Developer:**  Nicolas Micoud

**Feature Ticket:** [IDEMPIERE-4616](https://idempiere.atlassian.net/browse/IDEMPIERE-4616)

**Sponsor:** [Rubric](http://rubric.com)

**Description:**

Idea is to use Lead to manage both Sales and Purchases sides.
A new checkbox (IsVendorLead) was added and IsSalesLead was shown to allow correct definition of the lead.

![LeadVendor](pathname:///img/new-features/v9/LeadVendor.png)

The ConvertLead process has been updated in order that the newly created Business Partner will be set as :
- a customer (if lead is a sales lead)
- a vendor (if lead is a purchases lead)