"Submit to Purchaser" means that your proposal will be sent to your purchasing agent. Submitting a proposal does not commit your institution's funds to Apple. Rather, it allows your authorized purchaser to retrieve and review your proposal and place your order directly with Apple.

Your purchasing agent will review the proposal and take whatever action is appropriate.

If you are a proposer, you will not be able to retrieve a proposal after you submit it to your purchasing agent.

Yes. An authorized purchaser can submit a proposal to him/herself as a convenience, to save work for later revision without committing to a purchase at that time.

Remember, as an authorized purchaser you can shop and place orders from the authorized purchaser store without creating and submitting a proposal. However, these orders cannot include electronic software downloads. The system requires you to create a proposal first, and then log in again to convert it to an order.

If there is a price change on a product, your saved proposal will reflect the new price as soon as you click Continue to review your order. New proposals you create will also automatically reflect the new price.

Saved or submitted proposals containing a product that is no longer available cannot be processed and must be reconfigured.

If you requested any electronic software downloads, these items are handled separately from the rest of the items in your proposal, and are treated as a separate order for Apple's processing purposes. You will be assigned two proposal numbers, one for the electronic software download(s) and another for the items to be shipped.

After your order is approved, sent to Apple, and processed, your purchasing agent will be notified and will instruct you how and when to download the software you requested.