For Controllers

Procurement software for controllers

Close the books in 4 days, not 10, because the data was clean all month.

You own financial accuracy. No-PO invoices, month-end recoding and email approvals turn close into a two-week sprint. ProcureDesk captures every purchase at the point of request, coded and committed to the GL before the invoice lands.

· New purchase request
Dell Latitude laptops ×5
CDW · contracted price
Punchout
Software renewal, Asana
Approved vendor
Add
Office supplies
Staples
Punchout
Routes to: budget check → manager
Submit request
Coded before the invoice
10 → 4 days
Month-end close, on average
7–10 hrs
Given back to finance each week
90% fewer
Invoices arriving with no PO
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The problem

Three places the month-end close falls apart

Every month the same three gaps turn close into a two-week reconciliation sprint.

Transaction volume →
At the request
Trigger: teams buy without a PO
  • Requests come by email, Slack and hallway
  • No GL code captured at the point of purchase
  • Duplicate and off-contract spend slips through
  • The invoice is the first finance hears of it
At the approval
Trigger: approvals live in inboxes
  • Approvals stall for days with no chase
  • No live budget check before someone says yes
  • Spend crosses departments with no allocation
  • "Are we over budget?" needs a spreadsheet
At the invoice
Trigger: month-end close and audit arrive
  • Invoices land with no PO to match
  • 3-way match done by hand, if at all
  • Close drags past Day 8 every month
  • No audit trail when someone asks who approved it
How it works

How spend should actually flow

Front-end controls stop problems before they happen. Back-end automation closes the books fast.

Front-end controls: before the PO
1
Request
From a punchout catalog, in under 2 minutes.
2
Budget check
Live check before routing. No budget, auto-hold.
3
Approval routing
Routes by amount, department and cost center.
4
PO issued
Numbered PO to the vendor, GL-coded at request.
Delivery
Back-end automation: after delivery
5
Goods receipt
Receiving confirms delivery against the PO.
6
3-way match
PO, receipt and invoice matched automatically. Exceptions flagged.
7
Payment
Finance reviews exceptions only, then pays.
8
Sync & close
Coded entries sync to your ERP in real time. Close in days, not weeks.
Result: 90% fewer surprise invoices. Every dollar is committed before it's spent.
Result: 3-way match takes the manual work out of AP. Books close in days, not weeks.
Approval workflow

A rules-based chain that keeps the books clean

1
Requester submits a request
From the catalog or a custom request. Under 2 minutes.
Requester
2
System checks budget
Real-time budget check. Funds available routes on; if not, auto-hold.
Automated
3
Manager approves
One click from email or mobile. Under threshold, auto-approves.
Manager
4
Controller reviews high-value spend
Above your threshold, routes to finance first. Everything else skips it.
Controller
5
PO issued & synced to your ERP
Numbered PO to the vendor, commitment posted to the GL.
System
Month-end close
10 → 4 days
Clean data all month
Audit trail
100%
Every decision timestamped
Surprise invoices
90% fewer
Committed before goods ship
Integrations

Sits in front of your suppliers and your ERP

Your ERP changes as you scale. The procurement layer (catalogs, approvals, controls) stays put.

ProcureDesk
Punchout suppliers: one-click ordering
Order live from pre-negotiated catalogs, at your contracted pricing, without manual data entry.
Amazon Business
Office & IT
Staples
Supplies
CDW
IT & hardware
200+ more
Grainger, Lowe's…
Accounting / ERP: real-time sync
Every coded entry posts to your accounting system automatically. Start on QuickBooks; move to an enterprise ERP as you scale, without re-implementing procurement.
Path A
NetSuite
Multi-entity, international, or IPO-track finance orgs.
OR
Path B
Sage Intacct
Multi-entity with strong fund, grant or program accounting.
Also native: QuickBooks Online, Desktop & Enterprise · Xero · Microsoft Business Central · Bill.com
Key principle: you don't re-implement procurement when you change ERPs.

The catalogs, approval workflows and controls stay intact. Only the sync target changes.

Done for you

Live in 2 to 4 weeks. We do 100% of the setup.

No IT project. Our team configures your purchasing rules, approvals, accounting integration and supplier catalogs.

We configure
Purchasing rules and multi-level approval workflows, built to your policy.
We connect
Your accounting system and 200+ supplier punchout catalogs.
You go live
Fully set up in 2 to 4 weeks, with 24-hour support after launch.
Built for the close

Everything posts clean, all month

Punchout catalog
Amazon Business
Staples
CDW
Grainger
Dell Latitude 5540
Contracted · $1,120.00
Add to order

Punchout catalogs

One-click ordering from 200+ supplier catalogs at contracted pricing, with GL coding attached at the point of request.

Approval routing
Software renewal · $1,240
Marketing dept
In review
✓Budget checkPassed
✓Manager approvalApproved
3ControllerPending

Automated approvals

Route by amount, department and cost center. Spend gets approved by the right people before money moves.

Budget vs actual
Marketing$32k / $40k
Operations$18k / $25k
IT & software$9.4k / $10k

Real-time budget visibility

Track spend against every department and project live, so overruns get caught before they happen.

3-way match
PO
#4021
Receipt
GRN-88
Invoice
INV-712
MatchedSynced to QuickBooks

3-way matching & ERP sync

PO, receipt and invoice matched automatically, then posted to QuickBooks, NetSuite or Sage Intacct.

Finance teams on ProcureDesk

Controllers who got their close back

Published customer results, not stock quotes.

10 → 4 days
Month-end close
"The PO-matching feature auto-codes right into our invoices. Month-end close went from 10 days to 4. Time I used to spend reconciling, I now spend on actual analysis."
Controller, Mid-Market Manufacturing
200 → 0
Invoice backlog
"We used to have 200 invoices sitting there waiting for approval, monthly. We don't have that anymore. ProcureDesk wiped one of our biggest headaches."
Greg Stegman, Controller, Housing Developer
Across your industry

The same control, built for your industry

A Controller runs the same playbook everywhere; the specifics change by industry. See how ProcureDesk fits yours.

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Everything for a clean, fast close

See it on your workflow

A 30-minute demo built around your approval hierarchy, entities and accounting integration. Not a generic tour.

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Questions

Month-end close, answered

How does ProcureDesk shorten month-end close?

Every purchase is approved, coded and committed to the GL at the point of request, so there's nothing to reconstruct at close. 3-way matching is automatic and coding is already correct, which is how teams go from a 10-day close to about 4.

Can approvals route by budget, department and cost center?

Yes. Multi-level routing by amount, department, project and cost center, with a real-time budget check before anything is approved. You set the rules once.

Does it sync to our accounting system?

Yes. Two-way sync with NetSuite, QuickBooks (Online, Desktop and Enterprise), Sage Intacct, Xero and Microsoft Business Central, so coded entries post to the GL without re-keying at close.

Does every purchase get an audit trail?

Yes. Every purchase carries a request, approval, PO, receipt and matched invoice, all timestamped, so audit prep and month-end tie-outs need nothing reconstructed.

Is it built for a team our size?

Yes. It's built for mid-market finance teams where the controller owns the close for the whole company. Fully set up for you, live in 2 to 4 weeks.