PO software

Purchase Order Numbers in your Free PO Software

We’ve had a few questions about the exclamation marks (!) that show next to the PO number on Purchase Order forms in the Free Version of SpendMap…

The exclamation marks will only show when you “preview” the PO in your Purchase Order Work Area but will not show when you actually process the order and print an official copy or e-mail it to your supplier.

Some form layouts also include something like “Draft copy – do not process” somewhere on the form.

You can process your new Purchase Orders using this menu option…
Purchase Orders > Process New POs > Process my POs

…or you can select the “process now” prompt when leaving your PO Work Area.

Hope that helps 🙂

Hoping for Free Purchase Order Software from Santa?

The old software was hung,
The users cried “It’s not fair”.
The Purchasing Manager pulled out,
What was left of her hair.

“We can’t take it no more,
This old system’s the pits.
It’s time for a new one,
We’re at the end of our wits.”

“But we don’t have the money”,
The CEO said with chagrin,
“We’ll just have to wait,
For more cash to come in.”

They were sad and frustrated,
They’d heard so many NOs.
How they longed for new software,
To automate their POs.

But then SpendMap came through,
With PO software for FREE,
And things soon got much better,
Oh, the hope and the glee!

They just couldn’t believe,
It does seem kinda funny,
That their fancy new software,
Didn’t cost any money!

And it works so darn well,
They process POs and receive,
They email Purchase Orders to suppliers,
With no paper and such ease.

But that’s just what we do,
It just how we give back.
It’s our pleasure to give you,
This little gift from Spend-Map.

Happy Holidays from your friends at the Free-Procurement Project.

Move your Free Purchase Order Software to another PC

We’ve has a few chats with people wanting to move their free version of SpendMap from one computer to another.  Here’s everything you need to know…

REMINDER: In addition to moving SpendMap form computer to computer as described below, another option is to install the system on a network server so that you can access it from any computer on your Local Area Network. For details, please see “Network Installation Instructions”, in the Getting Started Documentation that comes with the software.

Also, please keep in mind that you can upgrade to our web-based version and then you can access the system from any computer with an Internet connection. More importantly, you’ll never have to worry about software installation, maintenance, backups or applying updates, as we take care of everything for you. You can try our Cloud version here if you like.

OK, to move the free Windows/desktop version of SpendMap to a different computer, you do NOT need to download and reinstall a new copy of the system. You just need to move the database/application folder and the shortcuts/icons that you use to run the system.

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Button TIPs in your Free Purchase Order Software

Expanding on the Bubble Tips that we added to key screens last year, we recently added helpful pop-up Tips to most of the buttons in SpendMap.

Just hover your mouse over a button to see a description of what it does..

For even more details on buttons, fields or anything else that you see on-screen in SpendMap, click the [Help] button on any screen.

New “TIPs” in your Free Purchase Order Software

We added helpful pop-up Tips to around 30 areas of SpendMap, to proactively guide new users in the right direction…

We posted a patch for version 14.84, so you’ll start seeing the tips the next time you update your system, which you can do any time using the menu Help > Check for Updates.

Retiring Last Year’s Free Purchase Order Software (v14.50)

It has been a few months since we released the 2020 version of SpendMap (v14.84), so now the time has come to officially stop supporting the old version (v14.50).

Please upgrade at your earliest convenience.  The upgrade utility will bring forward all your data, history, settings, etc., so you will not lose any of your work in SpendMap.

For instructions on how to upgrade your system and a list of new features, from within SpendMap please select the menu HELP > CHECK FOR UPDATES.  This will not actually install the upgrade.  Rather, if you are using v14.50, this will expose a red hyperlink at the bottom of the Main Menu in SpendMap…just click the hyperlink to see full upgrade instructions.

TIP: You can skip the upgrade by switching to our Cloud Version and get a 20% discount.  For details, please see the promo box at the top-right of the Upgrade Instructions (when you click the red hyperlink in the Main Menu of SpendMap per above).

Thanks,
The Free-Procurement Project Team
Totally FREE software that automates Purchase Orders and a whole lot more
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Defaulting Fields in your Free Purchase Order Software

We added a new [Default] button to the PO Work Area in the latest release of SpendMap that lets you update fields on all line items at once, so you don’t have to update each item individually.

For example, you might have already completed your Purchase Order and then realize that you need to change the delivery date or account coding or something, on all line items.

You’re welcome 🙂

Restricting users to their own Purchase Orders in your Free PO Software

Do you have more than one person working in your Free Version of SpendMap?

Would you like to restrict their access so that they can only see their own POs or maybe their own department’s orders, for example, when receiving or checking the status of Purchase Orders?

Just use the Document Access setting, at the top of the [Permissions] tab in the User Master File…

This setting will restrict the user to the applicable Purchase Orders in the following areas of the software…

  • View Purchase Order Status
  • View Release Status
  • PO Acknowledgments
  • Receive PO
  • Reprint PO
  • Reprint Release
  • Cancel Purchase Order
  • Cancel Release
  • View Cost Center History
  • View Cost Center Budgets
  • Document Lookups (when searching for POs and other documents)

Finding Purchase Orders and other documents in your Free PO Software

We’ve had a few questions about the overhauled Status & Inquiry Utilities in the 2020 release of SpendMap. Specifically, what’s the best/fastest way to get to a PO or other document if you already know the document number?

Instead of using the new Search Criteria at the top of the screen, if you already know the PO number, try using the [Quick Search by Document Number] button at the bottom of the screen, to jump right to that Purchase Order…

Upgrade your Free Purchase Order Software to the 2020 Release

If you’re using v14.50 of the Free Version of SpendMap, you can now upgrade to the 2020 release (Version 14.84) to get more than 30 new features and capabilities, in addition to various bug fixes and performance improvements.

You can check your current version number using the menu Help > About, in SpendMap.

About the Upgrade Utility

The upgrade utility will bring forward all your data, history, settings, etc., so you will not lose any of your work in SpendMap.

Just log into your current v14.50 SpendMap system and select the menu Help > Check For Updates.  This will download a patch to your v14.50 system – you will still be at v14.50 at this point but you will now see a red hyperlink at the bottom of the Main Menu of SpendMap.  Just click that hyperlink to see full upgrade instructions before actually applying the upgrade to v14.84.