Send one line. We take it from there.

A managed purchasing and procurement service for engineering and science teams. Send a line, link, part number or photo; we source it, buy it and get it to your door.

Scroll, or press Next, to follow one order from that line to its reorder.

Somebody on your team is already doing this job badly.

Not because they're careless. Purchasing isn't what they were hired for, and it doesn't fit between experiments.

• It lands on the wrong person. Chasing a vendor for a delivery date is an afternoon an engineer did not join you to spend.
• Or it becomes a hire. A purchasing specialist on the payroll before you have enough buying to fill their week. We are that person, shared.
• Nothing is consistent. The same part from three vendors at three prices, because nobody kept the record.
• And it's invisible. Ask what the lab spent last quarter, by vendor, and the answer is a credit-card statement.

It fills itself in, and asks one question.

Penny fills in each part of a request from past orders, vendor settings and your team's history. It asks about the one thing it cannot work out, and nothing else.

Approved, then bought on the vendor's buy day.

Approved items wait for that vendor's buy day and go out together, with a total for the day. The people buying are engineers and scientists themselves, who have spent a long time doing their own purchasing.

Chasing it is our job, not yours.

When something slips, we chase the vendor. The emails, the phone calls, the order confirmations, the "where is it", the returns and the replacements all sit with us.

Five stages, and a line saying what happens next.

Every request sits on the same track: requested, approved, bought, shipped, received. Beside it, one line of plain English says what happens next, so nobody has to ask where it is.

Somebody opens the box. One choice checks it in.

Parcels arrive at your door, so somebody at your end still has to open the box. Checking it in is one of four answers: all arrived, fewer arrived, damaged or wrong, not here yet. The likely answer is already picked, and the person who asked is told.

A spend record that says how solid its figures are.

We invoice you on the rhythm you want: daily, every second day, weekly. The spend record shows total, goods, shipping, tax and waste, by vendor over time, and tells you plainly which figures are actual costs and which are still estimates. Your purchase history is yours.

Then it comes back before you run out.

Every order you place with us becomes history we keep. Things you buy on a rhythm come back to you as a proposal before you run out. A proposal is a suggestion, not an order: nothing is bought until somebody on your side says yes. Things you are still thinking about wait as drafts on a wishlist, and go in together as one bill of materials.