The purchase is well the acquisition of a or a service against money (currency).

While the Vente is a passive act, remaining in waiting of acquisition by another person of an object or virtue of a person, the purchase is an active act asking for on behalf of the applicant an approval, a disbursement and a practical appropriation of an object or virtue of a person. The purchase is more complex than to be simple the contrary of the sale.

The object of the sale is to instigate the purchaser, to solicit the person to proceed to the purchase. For that it is used a multitude in manners and method S (of the Publicité to the constraint by the use of less fine tricks, sometimes), confining of close with a Art, which is covered by the article Vente . The object of the purchase is the Acquisition and all that is put on sale is not obligatorily bought, far from there!

Let us note that for certain goods or services without acquisition immediately available on the together of the spot goods, the purchaser will have to solicit the capable craftsman or firm to carry out the good or the service which he seeks ( purchase to measure).

Enter the processes of the purchase, the precision of a need (become need), the search for providers, the answer to the invitations to tender, the Négociation or the Marchandage, the drafting of contracts; with like objective, the satisfaction of the need to the lower costs (less saying) or the best quality ratio/price (better saying), and the major part of the art of the sale.

It is on the purchase that apply the Taxe S of the trade: it is the final purchaser who spends them.

Preliminaries

In last spring, which is produced for the sale is primarily intended to be bought; in other words, the things and the services are produced and proposed in order to be acquired. The step is easy to state whereas what is produced is to be acquired, i.e. it is for the purchase that one produces the things. What imports what one produces, provided that a purchaser is found, a purchaser, provided that somebody buys what is produced to this end. It is there a reason for which he is proposed more products on the markets that potential purchasers, that he is produced in great number, of the services or the things, the virtues or the feelings, more that one should not any to be entirely acquired: their number exceeds the sufficient one by far which would be to entirely find a purchaser for each thing, each product, each virtue and each feeling. It is precisely here that the purchase is of interest of study.

Distinctions

There are two kinds of purchase:

• that carried out within the framework strict of the Trade, like is a prelude to with a later sale: within this framework the exchange is a transition in a cycle named resale , usually called Négoce.
• that which is in fact in end of the line the commercial, which will not give place, in the event of later sale, that with the epithet of second hand , i.e. the thing, the virtue, the service will have been worn, will not be regarded any more as new : within this framework the purchase is a termination of a cycle.

The commercial purchase is already treated in the article Commerce .

This article will name this private purchase .

The private purchase

• the private purchase contains all the taxation weighing of the product, the virtue, the service.

• the private purchase is the finality of the trade.
• the trade functions only by the private purchase.
• the trade is art to make proceed to the purchase, and in last authority with the private purchase. The last purchaser, that which one says that he enjoys the object, the virtue, the service, is the objective of the trade: it is by this acquisition that finishes the cycle of this virtue, this product, this service from the point of view of the trade.
• the private purchase changes, in the commercial cycle of a virtue, a thing, of a service, each one of these three products in simple virtue, had thing: there remains there only the history of its existence at the same time in its birth, its origin and at the same time in its finality, its finitude.
• It is the private purchase which finishes the commercial cycle of a thing, a virtue, a service.
• It is not the private purchase which works out the richnesses, but the various transactions which found the circulation of its objects, virtues, services, as commercial transpositions whose objective is to finish in private purchase . The private purchase is a private richness for the purchaser of the thing, virtue, service, while it is the whole of the passage of hand in hand which creates the total richness of the trade.
• the private purchase shows that the thing, the virtue, the service are a commercial support of transaction.
• When a private individual sells a thing, a service, a virtue with another, that is spring of the civil law and not commercial law.

Accounting

See also: Invoice (accountancy)