Get Back to School ready with Amazon Business

The Back-to-School season is an exciting but busy time for faculty and staff and it’s essential to get school supplies quickly to prepare for the new school year. Teachers are tasked with creating a positive learning environment, stocking the classroom, and preparing lessons. At the same time, institutions and procurement teams are challenged to manage budgets and ensure faculty and staff to get their essential items. There’s a lot that goes into ensuring it’s a smooth first day for students.
 

From early childhood to K-12 to higher education, Amazon Business simplifies the buying process for both educators and administrators. Serving 80% of the 100 largest education organizations in the U.S., we’ve created unique savings opportunities and procurement solutions with you in mind. Here’s how you can empower your educators to get what they need, oversee spending, and find discounts on essential items. 
 

Empower educators to get what they need while ensuring purchases are compliant

Distribute grant funding and donations and send educational materials to faculty, staff, or students without the hassle of bulk ordering and managing reimbursements. With Business Giving, administrators can use vouchers to simplify the process of giving items to others to ensure that teachers and staff get the items they need. Getting started is easy. Pre-fund your vouchers, curate a catalog of items, invite recipients to select items, and view redemption progress - all in one place.
 

Business Giving has enabled school systems to distribute supplies across large school systems in a simple and efficient way. Gwinnett County Public Schools, the 10th largest school district in the country and largest school district in Georgia currently supports supports 181K students across 142 schools with over 13K teachers. Gwinnett County Public Schools currently uses Business Giving to allocate $300 to each of their teachers through Business Giving to show their appreciation and empower them to use the funds on supplies that best fit the needs of their classroom. Teachers often spend their own resources to supplement classroom supplies, and now they can use their Business Giving vouchers to purchase these materials and prepare for their school year.
 

Create pre-approved budgets and avoid overspending

School funding is often spent on a first-come-first-serve funding basis, which results in educators front loading requests at the beginning of school year due to the fear of losing funds entirely. With Amazon Business’ Budget Management tool, we are helping account administrators allocate time-bound funds to educators. Administrators can now also create proactive budgets that automatically allocate funds to any new user added to a group. With this new feature, you can now set a proactive allocation to ensure any new teacher or staff member gets funding immediately so they can purchase their essential items quickly.

Create pre-approved budgets and avoid overspending

School funding is often spent on a first-come-first-serve funding basis, which results in educators frontloading requests at the beginning of school year due to the fear of losing funds entirely. With Amazon Business’ Budget Management tool, we are helping account administrators allocate time-bound funds to educators. Helping educators know their balance and when they need to spend it.

Lou Anne Castillo, Purchasing and Capital Projects Supervisor, Franklin-McKinley School District (CA) said, “Before Amazon Business had Budget Management, we asked our end users to put everything they want to buy on a spreadsheet to track budgets and balances and we would compare the spreadsheet with their orders before approving them. Now, we can rely on Amazon Business’ Blanket Purchase Orders to track the budgets and run reports for each school. It’s simple, easy, and fast to use, and it helps us hold our end users accountable and responsible for their budgets.”

Stock the classroom with low prices, volume discounts, and wholesale savings on educator essentials

To make buying from Amazon Business even more convenient, we’ve created a dedicated Back to School storefront offering staff and teachers Educator Pricing across a comprehensive selection of products educators need to kick-off the year. Discover low prices and curated supplies by age group and view popular products that have been purchased by other educators. Educators can easily shop for books, everyday school supplies, electronics, classroom and furniture organization, educational activities and STEM, sanitation and wellness, and more all on Amazon Business.

As an education customer, you also have access to the Curated Reads program, which is a collection of must-have books for your school curriculum. Through Curated Reads, you have access to exclusive savings of up to 30% on more than 10k popular titles with high inventory availability, so you can maximize your budget while ensuring you receive the books you need quickly.