Punch remembers your suppliers — and every price you've paid
Punch keeps the full record: who your suppliers are, what each one sells, the prices you actually paid, and the rates you negotiated. When it's time to order, that memory meets fresh pricing — RFQs out, quotes bid-leveled side by side, and a budget check before the PO goes out.
Nobody remembers what you paid last time
Who sells what, which supplier quoted which job, what the last truckload of drywall actually cost — that lives in somebody’s head, an old email thread, or a spreadsheet nobody keeps up. When that person is on vacation, the order goes out at whatever the price is that week.
And everyone knows they should price-check the big orders. Almost nobody has time to: calling three suppliers, waiting on callbacks, retyping quotes into a spreadsheet somebody has to babysit. Nobody finds out what the job overpaid until the cost report, if ever.
A memory of every supplier, fresh pricing on demand
Two connected capabilities: Punch stores everything about your suppliers and pricing, and it puts that memory to work every time an order comes up.
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Punch keeps the supplier record
Every supplier gets a stored profile: who they are and what they sell. Price books, contract rates, quotes you upload, and supplier emails Punch ingests all land in one place — alongside the price history from every order you’ve actually placed.
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Ask in plain English
Say the material the way you’d say it on site — “the 5/8 fire-rated stuff” — and Punch matches it to the right supplier line item, then pulls what you paid for it everywhere you’ve bought it.
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Your rates apply automatically
Customer-specific rates and project-specific quotes are part of the record. When a PO is built, the pricing you negotiated is applied automatically — no one has to remember the deal.
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RFQs out, quotes bid-leveled
When you want fresh numbers, Punch sends RFQs directly to your suppliers — no phone tag. Returned quotes go side by side in a built-in spreadsheet, bid-leveled by line item so the whole team can see the best price.
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Budget checked before the PO
If the order would push a cost code over budget, Punch tells you in the chat before the PO goes out and surfaces a quick-look card showing exactly where you stand.
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Your history becomes your edge
Every order adds to the memory: who sells what, how prices are drifting, and the best source for each material. The next negotiation starts from your own numbers, not the supplier’s.
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Where this sits in the flow
Supplier pricing is the step before the commitment: it feeds the purchase order with real numbers and keeps the job-cost picture honest. It’s also a step in the purchasing walkthrough on How It Works.
How work moves through this step
In to Punch
- Supplier price books (uploaded)
- Quotes from suppliers (uploaded or emailed)
- Order confirmations
- Delivery updates
- Invoices
Out from Punch
- RFQs sent to suppliers
- Purchase orders
- Order status follow-ups
Connection: Supplier pricing arrives by email or file upload
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