# Which procurement tools can show a measurable impact on spend visibility or approval time within the first few months of rollout?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For teams that need to point to a result early, I looked at which <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/purchasing-software">purchasing software</a> reviewers reported measurable change in spend visibility or approval time soon after going live. One quick takeaway each.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/fraxion-spend-management/reviews"><strong>Fraxion</strong></a>: reviewers credit its budget dashboards and forecasting with giving finance a clear read on spending they did not have before.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/zip-2024-02-26/reviews"><strong>Zip</strong></a>: one reviewer quantified early gains, citing large reductions in effort per case and manual interactions, with a "No PO, No Pay" process live in 13 weeks.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/vertice/reviews"><strong>Vertice</strong></a>: reviewers point to reduced time-to-signature and transparent approval flows once their contracts are loaded into the platform.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/tropic-tropic/reviews"><strong>Tropic</strong></a>: reviewers describe fast SaaS spend visibility and price benchmarking, though some find the approval flows take several clicks.</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 anyone who rolled one of these out recently: what moved first, visibility or approval speed? And did you have a baseline number to prove the change, or was it more of a felt improvement?</p>

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## Comments
### Comment 1

Honestly the &quot;felt improvement vs. actual number&quot; thing is so real. We switched tools last year and everyone said approvals were faster but when we tried to pull a before/after report, we basically had nothing to compare against because we weren&#39;t tracking it properly before. If you&#39;re evaluating this stuff now, just make sure you&#39;re logging your current average approval time somewhere before you go live, even a rough spreadsheet. Otherwise you&#39;re flying blind when the CFO asks if it was worth it.

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