Purchasing Software (Purchase Requests and PO's)

Lifted

Diamond Member
Nov 30, 2004
5,748
2
0
I'm looking for purchasing software to handle a light PO workload, no more than a few hundred over the next couple of years, that supports basic workflow and approval processes. I don't need to generate RFQ's in the software.

It needs to be web based (self hosted or managed) and ideally not part of a larger ERM system.

Most of the software I've found is way out of budget as this is obviously too small a task for a typical commercial software package, though I have found a few. Since these smaller developers can be flaky, and open source stuff can be buggy, I was hoping somebody here has some experience with a cheap or free solution that they could recommend. Budget is < $3k/yr.

* I know this has nothing to do with "Software for Windows", but this has higher volume than the *nix forum, and there's no general software/business/enterprise forum, so...
 
Last edited:

Emulex

Diamond Member
Jan 28, 2001
9,759
1
71
coupa.org sounds like what you might want. EC2 based :) infallible! haven't talked to those guys in a while but i know their customers still punch-out to us.
 

Lifted

Diamond Member
Nov 30, 2004
5,748
2
0
coupa.org sounds like what you might want. EC2 based :) infallible! haven't talked to those guys in a while but i know their customers still punch-out to us.

Thanks. It looked good, but...

No pricing on their website and they haven't gotten back to me.

The free version might have sufficed, but it hasn't been updated since 2009 and some of the required software in the installation guide (primarily Ruby) is no longer available. I hammered it in over a few hours, got it running, but only get Apache errors after install. I have a feeling they gave up on the free version, so they basically just wasted hours.

It's honestly not worth much more of my time since I had some demos of a few perfectly adequate systems today, one having a flat purchase price of ~$3,500 which includes support and installation, and then reasonable hourly rates for integration with third party accounting systems, etc.

Really too bad Coupa has abandoned the free version of their product as it looks well packed with features, and I may have even considered moving to their hosted AWS installation.