Buying Policies and Approvals

Steer your buyers, drive compliance, and manage purchasing.

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Control your organisation's purchasing.

Maintaining compliance with your organisation’s purchasing policies and procedures can be tough, but with Amazon Business' smart business buying features, it doesn’t have to be.

Guided Buying's buying policies turn procurement rules into easy-to-follow visual signposts for buyers, while Approvals allows organisations to maintain control over spending without the bottlenecks.

Create buying policies

Create buying policies with Guided Buying to control how buyers purchase on Amazon Business.

Create buying policies

Guided Buying

These policies steer buyers to the right products and sellers, as well as empower administrators to set the appropriate limits around orders.
Build approval workflows

Create approval workflows with Approvals to establish checkpoints around orders.

Build approval workflows

Approvals

Approvers can seamlessly review and approve orders and can delegate a user to approve on their behalf when they are out of office or on vacation. Administrators can designate one or more approvers to review purchases.

Types of buying policies

You can create policies to prefer, restrict, and block specific products or sellers and to configure approval workflows. Guided Buying and Approvals is available to all Amazon Business customers, with additional buying policies available exclusively to Business Prime members. Please review the Business Prime plans to learn more about Business Prime exclusive features.

Preferred policies

Mark preferred items to display them in your organisation's preferred section of search results.

Restricted policies

Add messages to certain items to warn buyers or require approvals to purchase.

Blocked policies

Stop buyers from purchasing specific items and from specific sellers.

Learn how to configure buying policies

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