We’ve adjusted our prices for 2008 for Coupa e-Procurement On-Demand. Still 10% of the high-end competition, here they are:

• Basic Edition - 10 users, Requisitions and PO’s - $3,495
• Standard Edition - 25 users, Requisitions and PO’s, RFQ’s and Quotes, Receiving and Inventory - $6,495
• Premier Edition - 100 users, Standard + Invoicing, our Integration Platform, and Quick Start - $15,495
• Unlimited Edition - Same as Premier except 1000 users - $42,495

All prices are for a hosted annual subscription using our state of the art Amazon EC2/S3 hosted infrastructure, and include support, product updates, and maintenance. As a hosted system, you avoid the hassle of having to acquire and install a server, a bunch of software, and all the administration and management that that implies. And best of all, you can be up and running in as little as a week - there’s no big implementation project or army of expensive consultants. All you need is a web browser to get started. Find out more about Coupa e-Procurement On Demand by visiting us over at the .com site.  

Wow, we’ve come a long way. From pretty humble beginnings back in July 2006, Coupa is now routinely studied in Supply Management courses at universities around the world. Full production stories are rolling in, and things are going great. We’ve always viewed Coupa e-Procurement Express as a nice complement to our convenient on demand service. We powered through 11K downloads earlier this month, a nice achievement considering the conventional “market leaders” dedicated to e-procurement are lucky to claim 400 customers at most. The reason? Coupa is all about popularizing e-Procurement and making it accessible to enterprises everywhere. The conventional guys are still “hunting whales” - focused on the Fortune 500 & ignoring the needs of the rest of the market. So thanks for your overwhelming response to the project - and keep the stories coming in. We’ll be rolling out a framework for capturing what you’ve done as “case studies” in the coming months. Stay tuned!

I’m pleased to report we’ve enhanced the look and feel of coupa.org to match the professional style of coupa.com. We’ve got a little work to do reconciling two different online forums for your feedback and requests, but the site and the community continue to grow nicely. Thanks for all you are doing to build on Coupa e-Procurement Express, the leading open source project for e-procurement!

We’re excited to announce the general availability of our open source project, Coupa e-Procurement Express v1.5. In addition to the team here,many thanks to several people in the Coupa community that helped us with QA, documentation and get the word out.

We heard many of your requests over the last several months and which helped to shape the v1.5 release. As promised, there are a ton of new capabilities which are listed here. Some of the most hotly desired features include:

• Multi-currency support
• Self-approvals
• Purchase order change and revisioning
• Improved tables and searching
• CSV catalog upload

Of course, you can download the application today, which is now just the source code. We strongly encourage you to post your comments, experiences, suggestions, flames, etc. on our Forums. We’ll be sending out Coupa T-shirts to our active posters.

Noah