Don’t waste time.

This fall, Coupa introduces a new application homepage designed with YOU in mind, so that you can quickly find what you need, review and approve a requisition, check on recent orders, and even check how the company’s spending is tracking against the budgets you control. All the information you need, right on the homepage, in a clear, easily readable format – so that you can do what you need to do, get the information you need, and move on with the rest of your day.

Coupa's new application homepage contains the information you need most often as soon as you log in - open action items, recent orders, and budget compliance charts.

One search to answer every need of the requisitioner.

Cut through the red tape.

Employees work hard to avoid e-procurement applications and purchasing portals because the experience they offer are often the technology equivalent of red tape – lots of confusing steps, hard to use, unfriendly, unforgiving. The Fall 2009 release of Coupa e-Procurement puts search front and center on the application homepage. Four simple words – what do you need? – and one search box to find all the information you need to submit a requisition, comply with company policy, and get the best deal on whatever item they’re requesting.

With Coupa’s Fall 2009 release, all the answers are in one place, at your fingertips. No more trying to figure out which catalog to browse, or which punchout supplier to use, or where to go to figure out if your requisition complies with corporate purchasing guidelines. One search, all the answers. That even includes scouring the web to find the best deals online. Because with Coupa’s unique iRequest feature, employees can add items to their Coupa shopping cart from virtually any website, and submit them for approval as part of the regular requisition process.

Of course, every business is different.

We understand your business is unique, and that you’ll likely need to customize the application to suit your specific purchasing processes. Coupa now features a drag-and-drop editor to add or modify custom fields across the system. Users can customize requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, receipts, suppliers, users, items, contracts, departments and commodities. Perhaps you want to cross-reference your requisitions and purchase orders with specific projects – now you can define custom fields at both the header and line level to capture planning codes or other pertinent project information. Or maybe you want to segment your users into geographic regions. With Coupa’s custom field creator, it’s easy to do. The drag-and-drop custom field creator makes defining custom fields (and their field attributes) easy. Changes can be made in seconds. You can even link custom fields from one object to another – for example, a purchase order custom field whose value defaults from a requisition custom field (like a project planning code).

Plus, the Coupa Fall 2009 release enables users to modify the attributes on certain standard transaction fields. One use case might be to ensure that supplier, billing account and shipping address fields are required. This will prevent requisitions from going to buyer action because the user simply forgot to enter the values.

Coupa's new custom field creator features an intuitive drag-and-drop editor that makes it easy to add custom fields in minutes.

Coupa. Smarter Spending, Simplified. For more information on the Fall 2009 release of Coupa e-Procurement, please visit the New Features Forum.