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title: "Change order"
description: "Change order — A written, approved amendment to a purchase order or contract that changes its scope, price or dates. The original is kept and the approved total moves by the change, so the history shows what was first agreed."
canonical: "https://lopifi.com/glossary/change-order"
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# Change order

> Change order — A written, approved amendment to a purchase order or contract that changes its scope, price or dates. The original is kept and the approved total moves by the change, so the history shows what was first agreed.

Source: https://lopifi.com/glossary/change-order
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**What is change order?** In accounting, change order means a written, approved amendment to a purchase order or contract that changes its scope, price or dates. The original is kept and the approved total moves by the change, so the history shows what was first agreed.

## Words this system refuses for it

- revision
- overwriting the PO

- **Category:** Payables
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/lexicon)
- **Related:** purchase-order