Get the best price, before you order.
Ask several suppliers to quote the same job, see the answers side by side, and pick one. The winning quote turns into your purchase order.
Quotes · Comparison · Purchase orders
Everyone can ask. Someone approves.
Teachers, nurses and managers write down what they need. The buyer turns it into a request to suppliers, and the record shows who asked for what.
Requests · Proposals · Records
Every order, tracked to the door.
See which orders are drafted, sent, accepted or delivered, so nobody has to chase a supplier to find out where things stand.
Orders · Status · History
Fair bids, kept private.
Invite suppliers to bid on a big job. Each bid stays sealed from the other bidders, and the award is recorded step by step.
Invitations · Sealed bids · Awards
From “we need it” to “it’s ordered”
Four steps, the same every time.
Say what you need
Anyone on the team writes down what they want to buy and how many. It lands in one list for the buyer.
Ask your suppliers
Send a request for a quote, or for a fuller proposal, to the suppliers you choose.
Compare the answers
Prices and proposals sit side by side. Shortlist, then pick the one that fits.
Order and follow it
Choosing a winner creates the purchase order. Track it from draft to sent, accepted and delivered.
Buying without the email chains
One place for the ask, the answers and the order.
Sealed bids stay sealed
On a tender, each supplier sees only their own bid. You see them all, and every step to the award is recorded.
Cross-border deals flagged
When a supplier is in another country, the order is marked as cross-border so the right people can take a look.
Works with the rest of your business
Supplier details live in your supplier list, and the order is ready to connect to deliveries and invoices.
Procurement, answered.
A quote request asks suppliers for a price on something you can describe exactly. A proposal request is for bigger jobs, where suppliers explain how they would do the work. Both end the same way: you pick a winner.
The winning quote or proposal becomes a purchase order. You can then follow it from draft to sent, accepted, in progress and fulfilled.
Not on a tender. Each invited supplier sees only their own bid, while the buyer sees them all. Every step from invitation to award is kept on record.
In your supplier list. Procurement refers to a supplier by reference rather than keeping a second copy, so there is one version of the truth to update.
Procurement stops at the purchase order and its status. Receiving goods and paying invoices are handled alongside it in the other parts of NOWAITN.