There has been only one user authority for inventory purchasing transactions, which can be used for both direct purchases and purchases from purchase orders.

A separate authority must be granted to the user to enable them to purchase from POs as well as Direct purchasing. As a result, the business owner and restaurant operation will be able to control direct purchases (local market purchases) for specific users without affecting the purchasing through POs.

Currently, the authority is "Create Purchasing", which works for both Create Purchasing From PO and Create Direct Purchasing, so if a user has this authority, they can both Create Purchasing from PO or Create a new Direct Purchase Transaction, bypassing the PO flow.

There are 2 new authorities: 

1. Create Purchasing From PO: which works for creating purchases from POs. If the user has this authority, they will be able to create purchasing transactions only from approved POs.
2. Create Direct Purchasing: which works for creating direct purchasing transactions.

You may find the new authorities under user roles by going to Console > Manage > Roles > under the Inventory Authorities section.