Approva vs. renting SaaS
Route purchase requests through amount-based approvals and issue numbered POs before the money is spent.
The subscription math
Precoro — rented
Core starts at $499/mo billed annually (Automation from $999/mo)
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Break-even:
1 months
of Precoro equals the one-time price.
Assumption: Platform-level pricing with an annual commitment.
Savings calculator
SaaS figures use the cited plan price above (see the sources below);
per-seat plans scale by the seat count from the same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.
Also in this category
Procurify [2]
No public price - quote-gated (verified)
Pricing page fetched live - no numbers published anywhere on it; contact-sales only.
Why owning beats renting here
- One payment. No per-month, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. Customer records never live in someone else's cloud.
- No plan ceilings. Records, users, and usage are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply — see the
product page for honest limitations.
Sources
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Precoro — price checked 2026-07-05 —
source
“starts at $499 /month billed annually”
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Procurify — price checked 2026-07-05 —
source
“We offer flexible pricing based on features and support needs. Talk to our team for more details.”
Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only
print figures we could verify on the date shown.