I am working with a university for the first time. They want to pay me via purchase order, but the process on their end seems to take forever and I don’t get why? Isn’t the money already there and that the school has already given green light for the purchase? What am I missing?
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A purchase order is when someone that buys something makes and agreement with a seller to buy things, usually with some conditions on how quickly they’ll be paid, how quickly the stuff will be shipped, price limits / discounts, and maybe some promise to go to the seller for all their purchases of a certain thing.
You aren’t being paid **via** purchase order, your pay is being from a purchase order. That is to say that the school setup an account for some department to spend money for certain specific things, such as paying contractors or buying equipment. The department notifies the school that you should be be paid some money from that account, and the school eventually pays from that account, if there’s money in it. The purchase order will say something like “all payments will be made within X days of the request” or “on the nth Tuesday of the month” or similar).
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