School Quotes
Bracker's does not require you to obtain a quote prior to ordering supplies.
Our robust website is available 24/7 for you to obtain quotes for the supplies you need for your art classroom!
- Browse through the items in our webstore and add them to your cart.
- On the cart page, enter your shipping details to get a quote for delivery, freight or small package (UPS or FedEx) shipment
- Edit your order to meet your budgetary needs if necessary
- If tax is showing on your order, we will need to add your tax exempt information. We may already have this on file in our old system, so just make a note at checkout and we will update your order to remove tax OR contact you to request your tax exemption documentation
- Submit your order using the green checkout button and scroll down past all of the direct payment methods to find "teacher getting a PO"
- You can also leave us any notes in the comments section of checkout. :)
Hopefully this will help to speed up your process for getting prices on supplies. Currently, we have quite a backlog of orders that we are managing, and therefore have quite a delay in typing up quotes for regular supplies and materials.
If you need a quote for kilns, wheels, or other ceramic equipment for a bid, please contact us here to start that process
Typically this is how things work:
Teacher obtains prices on materials and fills out a REQUISITION
The requisition gets turned in to the office and the office creates a PURCHASE ORDER
The purchase order is sent to the vendor who then fills the order and creates an INVOICE for it
The INVOICE is sent in to the school and/or district office showing the purchase order number on it.
The district office matches up the INVOICE from the VENDOR with the approved PURCHASE order and confirms product has been received. Then with most districts it’s included in a giant packet of bills that have to be approved at a board meeting and then the checks are sent.
This is the way we have understood school districts to manage purchasing for about 20 years or so, though since the pandemic, I seem to be asked for invoices an awful lot. I’m not sure if it’s just a language thing or if schools have actually changed how they do business. Many years ago we received warnings from school districts not to provide materials without an approved purchase order. The school PO represents approval to use funds and without that number on our invoice, schools often will not pay an invoice because the teacher was not authorized to purchase items, so we do require official purchase orders before we can ship an order.