Approva vs. renting SaaS

Route purchase requests through amount-based approvals and issue numbered POs before the money is spent.

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The subscription math

Approva — yours

$39.00

one-time · self-hosted · your data, your server

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Precoro — rented

Core starts at $499/mo billed annually (Automation from $999/mo) ^[1]

Break-even: 1 month of Precoro equals the one-time price.

Assumption: Platform-level pricing with an annual commitment.

How their pricing grows: Precoro's published per-plan starting price is only a floor — any advanced configuration or custom workflow gets bumped to a sales-customized plan.

“We offer transparent, package-based pricing. If your business needs advanced configurations or custom workflows, our Sales Consultant will customize a plan to match your goals.” — read 2026-08-11

What Precoro does that we don't: Precoro includes a native mobile app for handling procurement on the go.

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.

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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.

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Procurify ^[2]

No public price - quote-gated (verified)
Pricing page fetched live - no numbers published anywhere on it; contact-sales only.

How their pricing grows: Procurify does not publish flat pricing; it is quote-gated and expands in cost as you adopt more product modules and add-ons.

“Pricing follows how you adopt the platform: expand into more products as you introduce new workflows and layer add-ons.”

What Procurify does that we don't: Procurify includes enterprise security controls like MFA, SSO, and SOC 2 Type 2 certification across its platform.

If you need software that actually pays vendors (ACH, wire, or check) rather than just issuing purchase orders, stay with Procurify — Approva issues POs only and never pays vendors.

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

Precoro — price checked 2026-07-05 — source
“starts at $499 /month billed annually”
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.

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