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Buying Policies and Approvals

Direct your buyers, adhere to compliance and manage purchasing.
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Control your organisation's purchasing.
Saying compliant to 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 policies turn procurement rules into easy-to-follow visual signposts for buyers, while Approvals allows organisations to maintain control over spending without creating 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 direct 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 throughout ordering.

    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 holiday. 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 items as “Preferred by your organisation” and show them in the “Preferred by your organisation” 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.

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FAQs

  • No, Guided Buying is available to all Amazon Business customers. We do provide additional policies to Business Prime members.

  • Restriction policies add a note for buyers that alert them of the restriction, but does not stop them from buying the product. Administrators can add an approval workflow if they’d like to review these purchases before. Blocked policies add a message to buyers alerting them that the product is blocked and they are not able to purchase it.

  • Organisations can use Guided Buying to direct buyers as part of meeting their responsible purchasing goals. Administrators can create policies that favour local sellers and/or products with sustainability certifications.

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