Expectations for Acquisitions

The Evergreen Acquisitions module DOES:

Allow you to keep track of your funds and purchased items with as much granularity as desired

Allow you to run reports on your spending and purchased items

Provide structure to your purchasing process

Have up-to-date information on fund balances, encumbered and spent funds

Provide second point of reconciliation with accounting software

Allow you to continue to use vendor websites while also utilizing Evergreen for fund tracking

Accomodate for both in-house and vendor supplied cataloging services

Provide accountability for purchases, receipt of materials, and fund management via permission levels and user actions tracking

However, Acquisitions DOES NOT:

Communicate with your accounting system (e.g. Blackbaud)

Send payments to vendors

Currently allow patrons to place holds on on-order items (See: Policies)