Features / Purchase requests

Intake, without the chaos.

One shareable form for everyone who needs to buy something. Templates decide which requests need approval and from whom. Budget holders approve from email in one click. Your team works a single queue, not an inbox full of Slack pings and forwarded PDFs.

Why it matters

Intake is where procurement quietly breaks

Most teams don’t have a purchase request system. They have an email address, a Slack channel, and three different forms that nobody updated since 2022. People who need to buy something ask whoever they think might know. The answer depends on who picks up.

The procurement function ends up running a help desk it didn’t sign up for. Half the day is spent chasing approvals, re-asking for the same context, and explaining the same workflow to the same people. The other half is the real work, somewhere.

ProcuHelp puts a real workflow in front of the chaos. One shareable form, no login required for requesters. Templates decide what needs approval. Approvers click yes or no from email. Your queue stays sorted. Everyone can see where their thing is.

Requests scattered across channels
Slack DMs, email forwards, hallway conversations, a half-finished Notion page from 2024. The intake surface is wherever the requester thought to look.
Approvals stuck in inboxes
A budget holder gets a forwarded request, means to reply, doesn’t. The requester chases them three days later. Nobody knows what the policy actually says.
“What happened to my request?”
Requesters have no way to check status, so they ping you. Every ping is two minutes of context-switching. Multiply by everyone who’s ever needed a laptop.
What makes it work

Four things that change the queue

The module is built around four capabilities that actually move requests through the pipeline instead of stalling them in inboxes.

Capability 01

Templates that know the policy

Each category carries its own thresholds and approvers. IT hardware over €2,500 routes to the department budget holder. Marketing tools under €500 don’t need approval at all. Configure once, the workflow runs itself.

Example template rules
IT hardware
Over €2,500
Budget holder
Marketing tools (SaaS)
Under €500
Auto-approved
Professional services
Any amount
Legal + Finance
Facilities
Over €1,000
Office manager
Capability 02

Requesters never log in

A shareable link opens the request form. No account needed, no SSO friction, no “I forgot my password”. Anyone in the company submits in 30 seconds. The form lives at your subdomain with your branding.

The public form
🔒 request.procuhelp.com / acme-bv
What do you need?
IT hardware · Laptop or peripheral
Amount
€3,450 excl. VAT
No login required
Capability 03

Approvers decide from email

Budget holders don’t open ProcuHelp to approve a request. They get an email with the full context, two buttons, and a signed link. Approve or reject in one click. Audit trail captured.

The approval email
PH
ProcuHelp for Acme B.V.
Approval needed: MacBook Pro · €3,450
14:08
Nienke Visser has requested IT hardware over the €2,500 threshold.
Approve
Reject
Capability 04

Status visible to everyone

Requesters track their request through the same shareable link. No login, no pinging, no “where is my laptop request” on a Tuesday afternoon. They see exactly where their thing is.

What the requester sees
Submitted
12 May 2026 · 13:52
Awaiting approval from Pieter de Vries
Notified 14:08 · usually under 1 day
Procurement orders & tracks delivery
Use cases

Different request, same workflow

Routine IT request

New laptop for a new hire

A team lead submits the request through the shareable link. The IT hardware template recognizes it’s over the €2,500 threshold and routes to the department budget holder. The approver gets the email at 14:08, clicks Approve at 14:09. Procurement picks up the queued request and orders it.

Total elapsed time from submission to approved: 17 minutes. No Slack threads, no “can you forward this” emails.

Low-cost SaaS tool

A €39/month Figma plugin

A designer needs a small subscription tool. The marketing tools template auto-approves anything under €500, so the request is approved the moment it’s submitted. The designer gets a confirmation email, procurement sees it in the completed bucket, no approver is interrupted.

The audit log records who requested it, what it’s for, and that it was auto-approved under policy. Defensible at year-end.

Higher-stakes services

External counsel for an employment review

HR submits a request for outside legal advice. The professional services template requires both Legal and Finance approval, in that order. The first approver gets the email; once they approve, the second is automatically notified.

Multi-step approvals run themselves. Nobody has to remember who’s next, and the requester sees each step move forward on the same shareable status link.

Get started

Replace the inbox with a real queue

Book a demo and we’ll walk through the shareable form, the conditional approval rules, and what one-click email approval looks like for your budget holders. Twenty minutes is usually enough to see the shape.

Procurement, made simple


ProcuHelp B.V.
Registration Number:
42008064

Copyright © ProcuHelp All rights reserved

Procurement, made simple


ProcuHelp B.V.
Registration Number:
42008064

Copyright © ProcuHelp All rights reserved

Procurement, made simple


ProcuHelp B.V.
Registration Number:
42008064

Copyright © ProcuHelp All rights reserved

Procurement, made simple


ProcuHelp B.V.
Registration Number:
42008064

Copyright © ProcuHelp All rights reserved