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Coupa Software, sponsor of Coupa e-Procurement Express, announces the formation of coupa.org, a web site exclusively dedicated to the open source project. Check it out at http://www.coupa.org

We're extremely happy to announce that Coupa eProcurement Express v1.5, the production open source release, is available for immediate download. Thanks to the community for the great interest and help.

Release v1.5 has loads of new capabilities and, most importantly, an updated best-in-class user interface. Expanding on a complete requisition, approvals, purchase order and receiving solution, Coupa eProcurement Express now includes:
* Self approval option to allow users to approve a requisition if they have sufficient spending authority. This can be used in combination with already existing management hierarchy approvals.
* PO change and revisioning
* PO acknowledgment
* Buyer conversations / comments on a PO
* Multiple file and URL attachment support
* Improved layout of PDF purchase order with customizable boilerplate PO terms
* PunchOut and cXML PO support
* Multi-currency support with all pre-seed currencies
* Set exchange rates between currencies
* Updated Quick Order Entry for non-catalog or one-time item/services requests
* Need by dates
* Vendor on Hold support
* P-card support
* Improved buyer management of requisitions requiring action
* Manage purchase order and manage requisition screens for buyers
* CSV catalog upload support
* Easily navigate from POs to requisitions and view receipts
* Improved table search, sorting throughout application
* Create a set a default how-to-buy policy... read more

Coupa is pleased to offer it's 3rd release of Coupa eProcurement to our community. Functional improvements include:

- Self-service Receiving: users can indicate partial or full receipt of amount- and qty-based order lines
- Inline New Supplier Request: users can create draft suppliers while requesting one-time items.
- User Interface Improvements: new button styling, calendar widget, table headers and paging... read more

We've patched Preview Release 2 with an Internet Explorer performance booster. By repackaging the Dojo toolkit, one of the open source components in Coupa eProcurement, we've dramatically reduced the number of unique files required per page. Because IE always checks to make sure it has the latest copy of each file, this simple change results in an up-to 5x performance improvement on IE7 and some versions of IE6. Firefox and other browsers are faster too, but less dramatically.

We're excited to share our 2nd preview release of Coupa eProcurement with the community. In addition to containing over 75 bug fixes, our new release contains radically improved packaging and a number of modest functional improvements:

- Coupa eProcurement is now packaged as a rails engine plug-in with a small shell surrounding it. This improvement offers better "pluggability" of Coupa eProcurement into larger application platforms... read more

Coupa is pleased to announce the first release of Coupa eProcurement 0.1. The open source eProcurement application is designed for enterprises that want to effectively and efficiently manage their employee spend.

Coupa eProcurement is loaded with features to satisfy the requisition to purchase order process within companies of all types and sizes. Built to handle both goods and services purchasing, Coupa helps a company bring automation to time-consuming manual processes. This release brings a fresh new take to eProcurement applications with best-in-class usability and takes advantage of the latest technologies and Web 2.0 concepts to facilitate collaboration throughout the purchasing process.... read more