At $199 a month, most businesses don't need any executive approval. They can buy it right there on the spot with a company credit card. The entire process chan

At $199 a month, most businesses don't need any executive approval. They can buy it right there on the spot with a company credit card. The entire process changes when you get into a particular range, it varies but for the most part $500 to $2000 seems to be the common upper limit. Anything above that can take days, weeks, sometimes even months of going through the process. I did some consulting for a large company and it took 4 weeks for them to go through the process of sending me around 2-3 grand. It wasn't even "approval" that took so long, it was just the process of going up the ladder and waiting each step along the way. If the company is large enough that I will never be able to directly talk to the "decision maker" then I pass on it. I don't have the patience to let them run me around in circles.