# Which procurement platforms give non-technical operations teams the ability to customise approval workflows without IT support?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Looking for input from G2 reviewers in the <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/procurement">Procurement category</a>, specifically from operations teams who are not IT-literate and need to configure their own approval chains, add vendors, and adjust purchasing workflows as the organisation changes, without submitting a support ticket every time a department head changes or a new supplier is added.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Strong self-service configuration fits:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/procurify/reviews"><strong>Procurify</strong></a>: Easy and straightforward to navigate with everything you need right at your fingertips.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/procurementexpress-com/reviews"><strong>ProcurementExpress.com</strong></a>: Smooth rollout and consistent day-to-day use, with little to fault beyond occasional slow search. The positioning is specifically toward operations teams without procurement expertise who need the platform to guide them rather than require them to configure it.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/precoro/reviews"><strong>Precoro</strong></a>: Self-managed onboarding without IT is the most consistently credited implementation feature. Reviewers describe operations and finance teams standing up the system independently, with 3-way matching and budget controls configured by the team rather than by a consultant.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/spendwise/reviews">Spendwise</a>: Dependable support and easy adoption, with structure and accountability that sticks after rollout.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/vertice/reviews">Vertice</a>: A no-code approval setup lets operations teams build approval flows without developer involvement. SaaS spend visibility and contract-level approval controls are the two self-service capabilities.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For operations managers who own their procurement platform day-to-day without IT support — what configuration change did you expect to need IT for, and were you able to do it yourself? And conversely, what was the first thing that did require vendor support or IT involvement that you assumed would be self-service?</p>

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## Comments
### Comment 1

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;Procurement reviews on G2 talk a lot about self-service onboarding, but self-service maintenance gets mentioned far less. The gap between what looks self-service in a demo and what actually stays self-service further down the line usually shows up around approval logic that gets more conditional than expected, like a new vendor category needing a different sign-off chain than the standard one. No-code approval builders solve the simple case well, a straightforward multi-step chain, but branching logic based on spend amount, department, or vendor risk tends to be where operations teams quietly end up asking a vendor&#39;s support team for help anyway.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;The pattern worth noticing across these platforms is that self-managed onboarding gets talked about a lot, while self-managed ongoing changes get mentioned far less, which suggests independence from IT is easier to prove at rollout than it is to sustain afterward. For operations managers who&#39;ve lived with one of these a while, the answer is probably less about whether they ever needed IT and more about how often they almost did.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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- Posted at: 1 day ago
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