No. Using a university issued P-Card for personal use are not permitted.

Orders over the $2500 P-card limit require purchase orders (POs). Please visit Procurement’s Frequently Asked Procurement Questions webpage for more information about creating and managing POs.

The Procurement department monitors Amazon Business usage and repeated purchases of items that could otherwise be purchased from our required contracted suppliers will result in the user’s access to the Amazon Business punchout to be removed.

No.  University-contracted vendors must be used to purchase office supplies and other  specified goods. You can access a full list of contracted suppliers and vendors on Procurements website  at www.kent.edu/procurement/supplier-or-vendor-contracts.

University employees are restricted from purchasing of the following items per University Policy 3342-7-12.1:

Amazon Business includes most items that are available for personal purchases on Amazon, plus additional business-specific products.  As with other purchases, there are several product categories that may contain items that are not approved for purchase per  Kent State purchasing polices. s you may see “Organization Restricted” messaging throughout the shopping experience. Product pages marked as “Organization Restricted” are available for purchase; however, you are responsible for ensuring your purchases are compliant with Kent State and its relevant policies and guidelines.

The only form of payment available is a university issued Pcard.  Therefore, you can use  any  University issued p-card you are authorized to use.  Please visit Account Payables website for more information about the use of Pcard.

“Amazon Capital Services”

To return an item, access your Amazon Business account.  Navigate to “Your Orders” to find the item(s) you want to return.  From Your Orders:

1. Select Return or Replace items
2. Choose a reason for return
3. Print label and authorization
4. Prepare package and return label

Items shipped and sold by Amazon can be returned within 30 days of receipt of shipment. Return policies, and timeframes, can vary if purchase was made from a 3^rd party seller.

No.  Amazon is an electronic catalog and like other punchouts in FlashCart, the suppliers’ systems are not configured to accept changes to orders which are accepted and processed electronically and ship quickly.