SpendMap includes a number of "Work Areas" where you can keep pending documents/transactions that you are working on (i.e. your work in progress, or "draft" documents).
For example, your PO Work Area is where you can work on new/draft Purchase Orders, until they are ready to be processed and sent to the supplier. Until then, you can add, modify and delete the transactions in your Work Areas without affecting other areas of the system.
Work Area vs. Quick Option
In addition to the Work Areas, most documents/transactions in SpendMap can also be entered using "Quick" mode, where new documents/transactions are processed immediately rather than being saved to a batch/Work Area that needs to be processed as a separate step.
Automatic Document Creation
Purchase Orders and other documents can be created for you automatically from other areas/modules of the system, and dropped into your Work Area for you. The most common example is when approved Requisitions are converted/flipped into new Purchase Orders and added to a Buyer's PO Work Area, but there are many other examples.
When new documents are automatically created by the system and added to a user's Work Area, the user can optionally receive an e-mail notification.
