Coupa Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We mainly use Coupa for the procurement of indirect materials and services. The purchases/invoices will be checked for compliance with corporate requirements (e.g., are the Correct Cost elements used, does it exceed the given budget, etc.) and then sent for approval as appropriate, based on the organization's setup and the dollar amount of the requested item.

Likelihood to Recommend

Suitable: Simple indirect procurement. Low cost; short cycle implementation. Less Suitable: Complex procurement scenario requiring serious vendor collaboration. End-to-end integration. Direct Material Procurement, especially when planning, quality inspection, and other miscellaneous activities are involved, requires handling various special statuses and updates to meet industry- or country-specific requirements.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Coupa for creating PO's, processing invoices and expense reports. The software is used mainly for the procurement team to create PO's and by our A/P team to process invoices as well as other departments in the company to document purchases with company cards and have them approved by all relevant parties.

Likelihood to Recommend

Coupa is great for standard out of the box invoice auto processing. When it comes to more complicated scenarios with non-standard or blanket PO's it seems to fall short.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Coupa is used for indirect procurement in a self service web portal.

Likelihood to Recommend

Direct procurement with SAP S/4HANA did not work for us in standard Coupa.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our customers use Coupa and we submit invoices through Coupa.

Likelihood to Recommend

See previous answers.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Coupa Supplier Portal to receive purchase orders from customers and also to submit our company's invoices. There are different scenarios that seem confusing at times regarding connecting with customers. For instance, my company has a Coupa Profile that we connect with customers through. Sometimes when a new customer wants us to use Coupa to send invoices, we will receive an email invitation to set up a new Coupa user profile. There is usually only a single link to do so and not a link that says, "Already have an account - log in here." By clicking the link, it just takes you to create a new account, which I don't even care to do. Once I'm logged in to Coupa, and a customer has sent one of these invitations, I can't seem to see them through the establish connection link. This confuses me because I'm not sure if the customer should be sending me a connection request or if I should request a connection.

Likelihood to Recommend

I am new to customer-supplier portals in my career. I use several different ones in my current role, including Ariba and Tipalti. To be honest, I don't really enjoy the user experience of any of them. I can see how larger companies may benefit from their services but for my current role submitting invoices on them and filling out vendor information requests seems somewhat clunky to me. When I'm in Coupa, the easiest, most non-clunky process for me is when I'm successfully connected with a customer who has successfully created their purchase order and I can easily upload my invoice to said PO. To me, emailing customer invoices directly to the customer from our invoicing system seems like the easier route of delivering an invoice. I suppose it is helpful and reassuring to know that an invoice has been successfully uploaded into a company's system rather than waiting to find out if your emailed invoice made it to the correct department for payment processing.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Coupa couldn't be an easier expense reporting system. I especially love that it allows me to create a recurring expense and set it to a date, in my example monthly, and it pops up every month ready to be filled in. That saves a lot of time and the hassle of having to create a new expense report every month for a known, recurring charge. I have used a lot of systems for expense reporting and none are better than Coupa.

Likelihood to Recommend

It works well for an organization of any size. The create and submit process is simple with a defined approval process that you can customize. It probably does not make sense for very small businesses. It may be easier to do it all manually if you have few users and rarely submit an expense report.

Very glad to be using Coupa and user adoption is immediate.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Coupa has become our single source of truth to solve the precious mysteries of spend analytics and control over spend management. The controls this provides now is being able to measure and effect changes in our environment

Likelihood to Recommend

Coupa is especially well suited for businesses using indirect spend as a model. Coupa is especially customizable when it comes to the approval Req and invoice process. [I feel] Coupa contracts basic is almost a worthless product since it creates so much double effort to log new areas and co tracts under one order.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Coupa was implemented about two years ago to replace a dated homegrown expense system companywide. It was chosen for its integration abilities and ease of use, leading to very generous adoption around the company. The ease of use and beautiful UI/UX make the expensing portion easy for all employees and take a lot of the guesswork out of the process.

Likelihood to Recommend

Coupa is a great tool and I would recommend it to anyone looking at it. I enjoy that it can be customized and has smart functions; I like the additional modules that allow for scaling and growth and that the user interface is great. It's an easy tool for novices to use and guides you through the process as you go. I don't have anything bad to say.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Coupa is used by Uber to onboard new suppliers, and connect them to our payment system to get paid out for the work we have hired the company to do. It addresses the ability of Uber to use one vendor across many business units to track who Uber teams use the suppliers and to pay them out in a uniform manner.

Likelihood to Recommend

I do think Coupa is well suited for a company the size of Uber, but I wish it were easier to navigate all parts and pieces of the tool. I think it works for Uber again because it can be a uniform tool across many teams, but I am not sure this would be ideal for smaller companies as I think it creates a lot of churn with issues many employees have with the tool.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used across the whole organization for procurement and expenses. We replaced Concur with Coupa and it's supposed to solve invoicing issues with our suppliers. It is also a faster and more efficient way to submit orders for supplies and control our costs associated with that. All employees use it from corporate to technicians.

Likelihood to Recommend

Coupa does very well on the procurement side of things. You can set up approval processes that allow you to approve or decline orders by your employees. Everyone gets a set limit and when you go over that limit, it needs to be approved. This has helped with controlling our costs. The expense side is very confusing at first and takes time to get used to. There are more steps involved in creating reports and if you don't have proper training, it can be frustrating.