We certainly have our point of view on why you should select Coupa e-Procurement as your platform for smarter spending.  But we thought you might like to hear what our customers have to say, too!

Coupa removes the hassle from reviewing and approving (or rejecting) spending requests.

Reviewing requisitions sounds like a painful process, but with Coupa, it’s fast and easy. Busy managers have everything they need to review and approve (or reject) requisitions in seconds – and don’t even need to log into the system to do it. Requisitions are consistently formatted and easy to read, and automatically routed to the right reviewers based on pre-defined approval workflows. And managers can approve (or reject) those requisitions online, through email, and on mobile devices like the Blackberry and iPhone (Coupa’s Mobile Approver is the first e-procurement application on the App Store).

Your employees can be trained on how to use the system in just 10 minutes.

Yep, you read that right. Ten minutes. Unless, of course, you have employees who have never used a computer before. In that case, you may need fifteen minutes.

All kidding aside, Coupa stands out for ease of use. Many e-procurement initiatives have failed because the effort required to use the system was too burdensome, or too complicated. Not with Coupa. Employees can find and requisition the goods and services they need in just a few clicks. Procurement professionals can configure and deploy the system in hours, complete with users, approval workflows, billing accounts, and more. Managers can approve or reject requisitions in seconds – online, from email, through their mobile devices. Easy. Just as it should be.

The software won’t slow you down.

‘Implementation’ is the word you use for complex ERP applications that require hardware, software, consultants, IT support and test environments.  With Coupa, you deploy and configure the application.  The difference between the two – implementations are measured in months, Coupa deployments are measured in weeks.  Even when integration to other enterprise applications are taken into account, the average Coupa deployment requires just ten hours of support from the Coupa services organization.  And the average customer goes from contract signing to production in just ten days.

We work hard to live up to ’smarter spending, simplified’ – and that extends to how our software is configured and deployed, often without IT support.

We listen.

Seriously, we do.  We understand that when you buy software, you’re buying a lot more than just technology.  You’re buying into a partnership.  As a subscriber to the software, you can cancel at any time. At Coupa, we develop on Ruby on Rails (RoR), a very flexible and powerful platform that allows us to innovate very rapidly.  We typically release a new release of the service every other month.  And each new release typically includes several new features and enhancements proposed by our customers.  When you subscribe to Coupa, you join a customer community that is very active in helping us develop the best e-procurement solution on the market.  You can submit feature requests, discuss them with peers at other companies, and monitor our progress in incorporating those features into the product.  Over sixty customer-submitted features have worked their way into the software in just the last twelve months.