Approva vs renting the software.
Purchase requests with amount-based sign-off, the rule frozen on the record, and numbered purchase orders.
Competitor prices on this page read on 2026-09-03, each row dated, each one read on the vendor's own page and linked in Sources.
The subscription math.
1 month of Precoro costs what Approva costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. Precoro publishes a starting price on each plan and prices its top tier by negotiation instead, so the figure on the page is a floor rather than a quote.
“Custom billed annually” Read 2026-08-11.
Who should stay with Precoro. If you need 3-way matching, punchout catalogs, a supplier portal, or actual vendor payment processing, stay with Precoro — Approva only issues POs, has no 3-way matching, and never pays vendors.
How we counted. Platform-level pricing with an annual commitment; every published figure is a floor, not a quote.
1 month of Tradogram costs what Approva costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. Tradogram meters by USER on top of a base plan, and quotes the tiers most teams need.
“1+ users · Additional user fee applies” Read 2026-08-30.
Who should stay with Tradogram. Stay with Tradogram if you need procure-to-pay — sourcing, supplier scorecards, AP matching — on a hosted platform. Approva is the request-to-approval-to-PO step, on your own server, and stops there on purpose.
How we counted. The month-to-month Essentials price for the first user; every additional user carries a fee the page names but does not price, and the two upper tiers are quoted. Approva is one payment for the whole approval chain.
Work out your own numbers.
The rented figures use the cited plan price above; per-seat plans scale by the seat count from that same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.
Also in this category.
“Pricing follows how you adopt the platform: expand into more products as you introduce new workflows and layer add-ons.”
Why owning beats renting here.
No per-month, per-seat or per-location fees: the license does not expire.
Your data sits on a server you choose; customer records are not held in a vendor's cloud unless you put them there.
Records, users and usage are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
It keeps working if the vendor doesn't: no one can switch your copy off, and keeping it up to date is in your hands.
The fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply. The product page lists what Approva deliberately doesn't do.
Related on this site
Sources
- Precoro: price checked 2026-09-03, source“starts at $499 /month billed annually”
- Tradogram: price checked 2026-09-03, source“'$99/month' ... '$950.40/year' ... '1+ users · Additional user fee applies' ... 'Custom Quote' ... '20+ users'”
- Procurify: price checked 2026-09-03, source“We build a quote around your team's needs: products, add-ons, users, and integrations.”
Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.