Buying Policies and Approvals

Steer your buyers, drive compliance, and manage purchasing.

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Overview
Type of buying policies
Resources
Get started
FAQs

Control your organization's purchasing.

Maintaining compliance with your organization’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 organizations 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 items as “Preferred by your organization” and show them in the “Preferred by your Organization” 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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Guided Buying overview

Learn how to reduce costs and drive purchasing compliance with Amazon Business buying policies.

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Configure spend limits

Learn how to configure spending limits within your buying policies and approval workflows.

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Approving requests

Learn how to approve requests and optimize your workflows.

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Get started with Guided Buying and Approvals

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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.
Organizations can use Guided Buying to steer buyers to meet their responsible purchasing goals. Administrators can create policies that prefer local sellers, small and diverse sellers, and/or products with sustainability certifications.

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