Feb ‘09 Release New Features Highlights

Take the Fast Lane to Spend Performance with Coupa Quickstart

Setting a new standard for rapid e-Procurement deployment, Coupa Quickstart will guide you through the setup process for users, approval rules, payment and shipping terms, billing information, chart of accounts, suppliers, and more. It’s the fastest way to be up and running on Coupa – with no software to install, hardware to buy, or implementation consultants to manage. With Quickstart, you can be sending approved purchase orders through the Coupa platform in less than an hour.

Coupa Supplier Network – The Smart Way to Connect Buyers with Suppliers

Buyers: Invite suppliers to join a secure online website where they can manage their contact information for you, view purchase orders, and submit paperless invoices. You can even find new sources of supply through the Coupa Supplier Network.

Suppliers: Join the Coupa Supplier Network at no cost to you, and greatly reduce purchase order processing delays and errors. Maintain billing information, contacts and contact preferences, PO delivery information, preferred pricing and more for your best customers. Make yourself accessible to the fast-growing list of companies who manage their spending through the Coupa e-Procurement platform, and generate new revenue opportunities for your company.

Add Some Bling to Your Purchase Orders

The Feb 09 release includes a new, improved and fully customizable standard purchase order format. Now for the first time, Coupa customers can customize the appearance of their purchase orders, and send them to suppliers in HTML format. You can change the layout and the design and add needed fields. You can even share your designs with the Coupa customer community in the Customized Purchase Order Gallery forum.

On Behalf of Ordering

Users can now create requisitions on behalf of other users and have those requisitions follow the correct approval path.

Visualize Approval Hierarchy

After configuring your company’s management hierarchy and approval rules you can see them as a flowchart.

Online Help

Coupa offers an indexed and searchable online help system that can help any user better understand the system.