# Which purchasing platforms can a procurement team actually manage without a dedicated IT department or consultant to set it up?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I spend a lot of time researching <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/purchasing-software">purchasing software</a> for smaller procurement teams, and the question I hear most is whether you can run one without pulling in IT or paying a consultant to configure it. So I went through recent reviews that speak directly to setup and day-to-day administration. If you want the short answer, Precoro, Procurify and ProcurementExpress.com came up most often as tools teams stood up on their own, but here is the fuller set I looked at.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/precoro/reviews"><strong>Precoro</strong></a> gets described by reviewers as onboarding without IT involvement, with a clear interface and admins configuring approvals and budgets themselves; one noted the NetSuite integration settings took some trial and error to get right.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/procurify/reviews"><strong>Procurify</strong></a> is one finance and non-finance staff pick up quickly, according to reviewers, who set up approval chains and budgets in-house, though a few say new users need a little time before it clicks.</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> is repeatedly called simple enough for a non-technical user, with inbox approvals and a budget view that reviewers say needed almost no setup effort.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/spendwise/reviews"><strong>Spendwise</strong></a> has admins adding users themselves with a training video and creating or copying purchase orders without help, so reviewers describe onboarding as self-managed.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/order-co/reviews"><strong>Order.co</strong></a> draws mentions of easy onboarding for new hires and quick day-one use after a short internal training, with spend caps and vendor syncing handled inside the platform.</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 running one of these without IT support: which stayed genuinely self-serve once your volume grew? And did any eventually need outside help to configure something you did not expect?</p>

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## Comments
### Comment 1

The self-serve promise holds until you need a non-standard integration or an approval chain that doesn&#39;t fit the default logic. That&#39;s when IT gets quietly cc&#39;d on an email. Precoro and ProcurementExpress held up longer than most before we hit that wall.

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