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Re: How does your team make purchases?

Completed.
We are now running all money (fundraising, sponsors, expenses, etc.) through our non-profit. We were going to approach the school with a proposal to allow us to do this, but the school actually recommended that we use a non-profit for our program. So it was a win-win for us.

Now we can order things as soon as we need them. We can go make a trip to the hardware store and use the non-profit card to purchase things. All of this has the typical assumptions that there is enough money, within budget, proper approvals/procedures, etc.

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Originally Posted by nukemknight View Post
The blanket PO is a great idea, we may have to do that with AndyMark and Vex.
We tried this last year after RC from West Coast Products made the recommendation, and it was not successful - the school wouldn't allow us to this. We had to provide a line item request each time and it would still go through the same 2-3 week-ish process.
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