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Spendwise is a cloud-based system that helps businesses and other organizations track, manage and control spending. Users can create purchase orders, submit them for approval, approve or reject them, and email them directly to...
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- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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Best Purchase Order Software
Pros
Spendwise is the best. I have been using Ever since I have been using it in my office I can see a significant change it's a fast, one-point system where I can do my inventory raise a purchase order, track history compare products cost get all my invoices in the same system. The best part is since it's online also I can open it from any place and be updated. It's the most logical software which is out there.
Cons
It is a 5-star software. I like the software as it has helped me grow. Mostly it has saved me lots of time and man-hours searching for invoices at year-end tax time.
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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The most affordable, feature-rich option out there!
Officewise has helped us take control of our spending which has helped increase profit within the first few months!
Pros
Easy to learn and use, the features we need are built-in and we didn't have to do a lot of customization!
Cons
We still need to learn how to integrate the software with some of our accounting systems - we feel that training would help. Hopefully, we are able to find some help with this. I'm not sure we have been able to reach a live human yet - but maybe we need to try a littler harder.
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback. We would love to help however we can and can be reached at 1-855-906-3300 or you can send an email with your contact info to [email protected] and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
- Industry: Environmental Services
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Opinion on sales order
Works fine. Needs a keep me signed in box
Overall quality is good. Can easily work all the drop down menus. Stores customers information which is nice to have to create every time
Pros
Creating sales order and drop down menu. Hold customer name which is nice not to have to create each time
Cons
Doesn't stay logged in
Make it easier to save and do new sales order after you finished one
Needs to hold more customer names
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback. The system should allow you to stay logged in if you want as well as save a sales order and create a new one at once by clicking the "Save & New" button. The system should also allow you to save an unlimited number of customer names. I will follow-up with you directly to further discuss and resolve.
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- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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track POs with ease
we didn't have a customizable PO system before officewise
Pros
the filter and sort fields make it easy to find any Purchase Order quickly. The ability to email a PO straight to the vendor cuts down on repetitive actions!
Cons
When I close a PO I would like the screen to refresh to the main PO list instead of having to close out of the closed PO screen.
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback. To end up on the main PO list page after closing a purchase order we recommend closing the purchase order from the list page which you can do by checking the box next to the purchase order, then click on the More button at the top of the list, then click on Close option. This feature also allows you to close multiple purchase orders at a time. Hope this helps.
- Industry: Medical Practice
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Spendwise Recommended
Excellent experience with short learning curve
Pros
Ease of use
Convenient approve from anywhere
Historical record management
Budget support
Cons
Spendwise works as described and we've not found or experienced any significant issues
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Implemented this software in our company more than a year ago. Works well. Seldom any issues.
Pros
Ease of use and reliability. Good / fair cost for the system. The system is well maintained and supported. No issues for the role this system in our operation. The system is well maintained and supported.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Good product for needs
Wonderful! I would recommend this to many offices!
Pros
Easy to use and makes billing easy. Fast and affordable. Streamlines many of my daily/weekly/monthly duties and needs.
Cons
Training and updates could be a little better. Confusing at first but once you get the hang of it, it is easy.
- Industry: Consumer Services
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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This software is the best for making quick and easy purchase orders
Its nice to be able to reference each PO just by looking it up in the search box by the PO number
Pros
Office wise is able to save product titles and price to quickly fill out the po and send it out.
I like that it is fast and easy to use. You are even able to email right from the PO.
Cons
I don't like that there is a new area that has to be set of what folder you would like to have it in after it mailed out. That slows down the process.
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your review Caleb! Not sure what you mean by setting folder you would like to have PO in after it is mailed out. If you are referring to approval folders (i.e. Inbox, Not-submitted, Rejected, Pending) the system should assign automatically depending on the approval status of the PO. I will follow-up with you to make sure I understand and help resolve.
- Industry: Business Supplies & Equipment
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Must have to track inventory
Pros
Great too to control inventory and sales. You are able to track your inventory from your phone and you can use key words to search PO's. This tool is a great way to be more organized and get rid of paper purchase orders and have everything electronically.
Cons
It would be very helpfully to be able to print multiple purchase orders at once.
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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It's wise to use OfficeWise
Pros
- Cloud functionality allows all users to interact from anywhere
- Reasonably priced
Cons
- Difficult initial learning curve
- Search feature doesn't give results sometimes
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback. Search feature should work as long as what you enter in the search field exactly matches text on the record you are looking for but we agree it could be improved. I am sorry to hear you found initial learning curve difficult and would love to hear how we can make it easier. I will reach out directly to further discuss.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Good software that we don't utilize enough!
My company mainly uses your software as a PO creation tool. I know that you have a lot of reporting and accounting tools and other tools that we don't use that we definitely could/should. The software works well for us to simply create POs with easy fill-in-the blanks for saved company names and information so multiple people can use it as an address book, essentially. We then have a record that shows all POs we've placed over time as well, across multiple users. What we don't use very well is the accounting tools - we don't really categorize or use the reports at all for accounting purposes. We have a whole accounting team who keeps track of that type of thing in Quickbooks. Our Operations team is who uses your software for the most part for ease of creating POs and also record keeping for basic PO information. Giving you 4 stars across the board for the product - it seems pretty user friendly in general. Maybe not enough tutorial type information, that could be helpful, but I haven't really gone looking for it. Giving you 5 starts for customer service because you were very responsive when I did have a question.
Pros
Pretty straightforward and clean
Cons
Could use more tutorials
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback Anna! We would love for you guys to use Officewise for all of your accounting needs and think that you would like it much better than QuickBooks but we might be a little bias:). That said we have many customers who use our system along with QuickBooks like you do which is just fine too. I agree with your point about having more tutorials and other support tools, we are currently working on these things and will make them available within the next few months.
- Industry: Research
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Able to work with the software and have a positive experience when using it.
The ability to track purchases and determine total dollars spent by vendor.
Pros
The ease in the use of the software. Several fields can be populated by typing the first letters of a vendor's name. The item numbers also can be populated with the first few letters on the company's item numbers.
Cons
There was an update to the software a few months ago. There was no training on the changes to the software. It was difficult to determine where items needed to go. It took sometime to figure this out.
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your review. We agree that we could have done a better job of communicating the updates we made to our user interface a couple of months ago. We don't plan to make any other significant changes to our user interface but will be sure to better communicate any changes going forward.
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Generally good
Pros
The software provides inventory control, sales, and purchasing tools all in one easy to use application that is not overly priced.
Cons
The inability to modify inventory type (inventory vs non-inventory) after creation. It would be a major improvement to allow you to change the type instead of having to create a new item.
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback Lisa. I understand your point about allowing users to modify type so that you don't have to create a new item if you want to change. The tricky part is what to do with past transactions since they would have been handled in the system based on type when they were recorded. We think it is important to be consistent with how different types of transactions are handled in the system but also feel it is important to maintain the integrity of historical data. That said we are always open to new ideas on how we can improve the system and I will follow-up with you directly to further discuss.
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Quick and Easy, ideal for small companies.
Organized our procurement process in a beneficial and productive way.
Pros
This software took our company from a convoluted excel based system to an organized and easy to use software platform that we love.
Cons
This software lacks a few features that would be helpful but overall not critical. Being able to track lead times, order numbers, and being able to pull that list by project would be very helpful. The software would also benefit from being able to communicate with other software systems, like quickbooks.
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback Clint. The system does include order numbers and tags which are often used for project spend tracking and I have some ideas on how you can use due dates and other features to track lead times. I will follow-up with you directly to further discuss and see how we can improve. As for communicating with other software systems I agree that we can do better and it is on our "to do" list. For now I am wondering if our data import/export features can help you get you what you need and will follow-up with you to review.
- Industry: Textiles
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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huge improvement over our previous manual system
better order efficiency
Pros
1) approval process is now instantaneous. Previous manual system could take days. 2) I like the ability to search part numbers for repeat orders by part name or supplier.
Cons
does not provide system to maintain consistent part name / number so each user conforms to common system - which leads to duplicates
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback Scott. To reduce the risk of duplication the system does prevent users from creating new items that have the same Item ID as an existing item but we understand sometimes that is not enough to prevent duplication. To further reduce risk and maintain consistency in part name/number we recommend limiting which users can add new parts through roles so that only certain authorized users can add new items. I will follow-up with you directly to show you how this can be done.
- Industry: Airlines/Aviation
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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So far its been useful
Pros
The ease of creating purchase and sales orders. Also like tracking the sales orders/purchase orders and to get a history.
Cons
It can be slow but can't tell if its the software or our network.
I am not able to track by project. If we do samples orders for various projects I am unable to look up by a project to see what sample requests are being worked under a specific project.
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback Jim! We have not received any other reports of our site being slow and we closely monitor performance metrics to make sure it is working fast so there might be an issue with your computer or network. That said we are constantly trying to improve the performance of our site so I will follow-up to see what else we can do to speed things up on our end. For project tracking I recommend using "Tags" or creating a custom field on the order form and will follow-up with you to show you how this can be done.
- Industry: Renewables & Environment
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Using it daily
Items should be able to be changed like deleting that aren't being used and being able to change non invorty to invorty item
Pros
I can use it on my phone. Invorty can be tracked when used right
Cons
Not being able to delete items that were used or Duplicates
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback Gary. If an item is not used in any transactions you should be able to delete and if it is used in a transaction you can make it inactive so it no longer shows up in dropdowns etc. Allowing users the ability to change items from non-inventory is something we have considered in the past and will revisit based on feedback from you and others. I agree we need a mobile app and we have plans for this. I like your idea about different pricing on items and will follow-up with you to further discuss.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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OfficeWise
We Love Love Love OfficeWise. We mostly use it to keep track of orders. As a busy Design Firm we need all the help we can get keeping track of furniture orders, cabinets, tile and everything we order for a project. The report system allows us to to do a print out and mark it with expected ship dates and helps us to track what is on order for several projects at once.
Best money we ever spent!
Pros
Similar to quickbooks, so if you use quickbooks you can automatically use this easily.
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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I was new to Officewise and had very little training. In no time I was up and running!
I can track the expense and purchases for each location
Pros
Very easy to use and negotiate your way around the software. I also like being able to customize the dashboard.
Cons
You can not print a detailed PO from your dashboard once it is approved. You have to go to Home then Purchase Orders, search for the PO then print them. Wish there was a quicker way to do this.
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback Susan! Once a PO is approved you should be able to click on a link in the approval notification that will take you directly to the approved PO where you can print it. From the list of POs you can also set filters to see only those purchase orders where you are the requisitioner which may make it easier to find POs. I will follow-up with you to further discuss these solutions and how we can improve.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Overall its fine but i dislike having to use so many different pieces of software.
Pros
Office wise is easy to use and fairly intuitive for the most part. the page is smooth and rarely gets hung up or has timeout issues.
Cons
The PO can be a little glitchy when adding multiple line items at the same time, it creates a weird overlap on the job number field.
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback Kolby! We have not been able to replicate the issue you mention on our end and have not received any other reports of this issue so it might have something to do with the settings on your computer. I will follow-up with you directly to further discuss and help resolve.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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The program has definitely made the procurement work so much easier for all of us that use...
It's so much easier to use then the system we were using before. It saves so much time.
Pros
Its is extremely easy to use and understand. The screens are clear, clean and very simple to use. Login is very simple
Cons
Would like the complete list of PO's to come up so I don't have to scroll through long list. I can't think of another
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback Jann! The complete list of PO's should come up when you are on the purchase order list page. Not sure why this is not happening for you but I will follow-up directly to help resolve.
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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CD BUILDERS INC
The softwave have been an excellent source for our company and very friendly for users. Service is quickly.
Pros
The easiest way to access what you need.
Cons
Everybody can do changes to people. I would prefer more control.
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback Rebeca! You should be able to limit who can make changes to people through user roles. I will follow-up with you to further discuss and resolve.
- Industry: Public Relations & Communications
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Officewise is great and easy to use but the limitations in the description box is a problem.
You benefit from having one central location to put in all the orders you need to purchase for the office, as well as, let administration know what id going on event wise.
Pros
I like the efficiency of it in the office setting. It is nice to be able to have a place to submit everything you need and it can be sent to the person who needs to purchase the orders. I like how it sends emails notifying you when something has been sent to you or approved.
Cons
The description box does not allow enough lines to type and you cannot add the same approver more than once, which is a little inconvenient in some circumstances.
Response from Spendwise
Thank you for your feedback Lindzee! The description field has a 900 character limit which we hope meets your needs most of the time. In cases where the description exceeds the character limit we usually recommend attaching a file with the description to the purchase order and referencing the file in the description field of the purchase order. I will follow-up with you directly to see if this solution could work for you and discuss other alternatives.
- Industry: Law Enforcement
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Spendwise
Pros
The purchase order tracking is our most used feature in Spendwise.
Cons
I can't think of any cons. We use the purchase order feature
- Industry: Printing
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Good product
Pros
It's easy to use and does what it is designed to.
Cons
I can't think of anything that I don't like about it since we only use it for submitting purchase orders.
