One thing that may help in some cases is to use the "optional Purchase Order number" when you are checking out. You can give the order a PO of, for example, "YA" or "Children's". Then, you can print out the individual invoices from the Amazon Credit Center (a separate web site) and pay them separately. It will require some coordination with your Accounts Payable, but my own Accounts Payable office was elated to have this option to pay invoices individually rather than wait until the end-of-month statement.
Debra Thomson
Acquisitions and Gifts Manager
Rhode Island College Library
600 Mt. Pleasant Ave.
Providence, RI 02908
Phone 401-456-9651 * Fax 401-456-2715 * Email dthomson_at_ric.edu
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We used to be able to have separate users and separate carts through our corporate account with Amazon, but they changed the policy and now the account can have only one user and only one cart. I think they must have had some kind of problem (maybe workers ordering things for personal use??) to change their policy. It does not make things easy for library workers. I called Amazon to talk about it, but they said that is how their corporate ordering policy works now. They want one point person in charge of all ordering. Now the children's and YA librarian have to sign in as me to use the account. Obviously, even the fact that they call the account a "corporate" account indicates they are not designed to cater to libraries.
I know this doesn't help, but you have my sympathy.
Prudence Fallon
Adult Services/Reference Librarian
Tiverton Library Services
Rhode Island
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Is anyone using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to maintain multiple users creating carts/placing orders in Amazon? The current corporate account combines all our selectors orders into one and for accounting purposes we need them separated. I may be making this more complicated than it really is but I am having a problem applying Amazon's directions to my library's needs.
Thanks in advance,
Joy Anhalt *<:o)
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