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Has anyone found a way to add an approval process with automatic ticket routing to the purchase order feature in Spiceworks?

I think it would be a lot more useful if when someone submitted a purchase order, you could have the request automatically sent to a manager/approver for approval. Then after the approval, the purchase order would then be assigned to a “purchaser” who would actually purchase the product.

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I apologize in advance for not being able to find it, but where is there a P.O. module/implementation in Spiceworks?

I’d love that - even if somewhat limited. We use a state supplied system for actual purchase orders but if I could avoid hand writing them first that would be wonderful.

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David9459 wrote:

I apologize in advance for not being able to find it, but where is there a P.O. module/implementation in Spiceworks?

I’d love that - even if somewhat limited. We use a state supplied system for actual purchase orders but if I could avoid hand writing them first that would be wonderful.

I assume you are on 5.1??? Go up to the top of your Spiceworks page, under inventory you should have PURCHASES as a choice.

You can also add a purchase directly to a help desk ticket.

Purchases was added in 5.0, and improved in 5.1. It is very customizable, but still a work in progress. I was able to dump my old system and we now use Spiceworks exclusively to track all IT purchases.

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This is exactly what we’re looking for.

Users request “new keyboard”, helpdesk admin receives the ticket, manager approves the purchase of a new keyboard, helpdesk admin orders it and sends it out, puts tracking information and closes the ticket.

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It doesn’t exist yet, but the request has been put in and Spiceworks is working on adding improvements.

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The PO system leaves much to be desired at present.

Yes I can add a purchase. But then I still have to manually sign off on bits of paper.

What we want to see is, for a ticket or vendor, when you add a purchase an email be created and sent to a user. That user would then be able to approve the purchase.

For seperate record keeping it would also be nice if had a way to generate a PDF (or similar) to stick in accounts records.

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Hi guys,

Was the purchase workflow already implemented as Joshua requested. I would also like that a manager can approve it.And that i’t registered in the ticket.