Purchasing - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

OneAdvanced's Purchasing is a powerful, user-friendly procurement solution designed to streamline purchasing, improve compliance, and deliver strategic value across public and private sector organisations. It brings together a centralised buying portal, real-time data insights, and automated workflows to help businesses gain control of spend, eliminate inefficiencies, and guide smarter buying decisions.

With growing pressure on procurement teams to do more with less, OneAdvanced Purchasing offers a single platform where employees can purchase goods and services only from approved, contracted suppliers. This approach ensures spend is aligned to company policies and sustainability goals, while making the buying process faster and more intuitive for end users.

OneAdvanced Purchasing is ideal for organisations looking to reduce maverick spend, improve supplier relationships, and make data-led procurement decisions. It supports everyone from healthcare providers to educational institutions, local government, and commercial businesses with a solution that is both strategic and easy to use.

Key Benefits:

• Centralises all purchasing into one consistent platform, improving visibility and control.

• Reduces maverick spend by enforcing guided buying from preferred suppliers.

• Supports ESG and procurement policy alignment by tagging products and suppliers with relevant data attributes.

• Automates procurement processes including approvals, requisitions, and invoicing to save time and reduce errors.

• Allows suppliers to maintain their own product information, ensuring data accuracy and reducing admin for internal teams.

• Provides real-time analytics and insights on spend behaviour, compliance, and supplier performance.

• Supports smaller suppliers by levelling the playing field with easy onboarding and visibility.

Features:

• Guided purchasing experience: Direct buyers to approved products and suppliers that meet your organisation’s standards and goals.

• Supplier-maintained catalogues: Suppliers keep product details, pricing and ESG credentials up to date, reducing internal workload.

• Spend analytics: Drill down into category, supplier, and item-level spend to inform procurement strategy and track performance.

• ESG tracking: Tag suppliers based on sustainability or local sourcing and monitor progress against your environmental and social goals.

• Basket workflow: Non-finance users can submit shopping baskets for approval before orders are sent to finance systems.

• Free text ordering: Users can request bespoke or non-catalogue items from new or existing suppliers as needed.

• Amazon Business Punchout: Manage Amazon Business purchases within your usual approval processes to maintain control and visibility.

• eRequisitions: Flexible, user-friendly interface to submit purchase requests with cost codes, delivery addresses, and more.

OneAdvanced Purchasing enables procurement teams to move away from tactical firefighting and toward strategic value creation. With automated processes, clear oversight of spend, and robust tools for supplier management, it supports long-term success and cost control. The platform helps drive compliance and adoption across the business by offering a familiar, retail-like shopping experience tailored to organisational goals.

Customers consistently praise the system’s ease of use, powerful search functionality, and the time it saves across procurement and finance functions. The platform performs equally well for large suppliers and small businesses, with OneAdvanced providing support to ensure seamless onboarding and participation.