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title: "Purchase requisition"
description: "Purchase requisition — An internal request to buy, raised by the person who needs the goods or services and approved before a purchase order is issued. It commits nothing and posts nothing."
canonical: "https://lopifi.com/glossary/purchase-requisition"
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# Purchase requisition

> Purchase requisition — An internal request to buy, raised by the person who needs the goods or services and approved before a purchase order is issued. It commits nothing and posts nothing.

Source: https://lopifi.com/glossary/purchase-requisition
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**What is purchase requisition?** In accounting, purchase requisition means an internal request to buy, raised by the person who needs the goods or services and approved before a purchase order is issued. It commits nothing and posts nothing.

## Words this system refuses for it

- purchase order (the commitment to the vendor)

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