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Mittral vs Tradogram
Tradogram is a procurement platform for growing teams: requisitions, approvals, purchase orders, receiving, invoice matching, supplier payments, budgets, sourcing and accounting software connections, with the larger plans sold by quote. Mittral is for small and mid-sized teams that want each purchase request routed by amount to the right approvers, then sent to the supplier as a numbered purchase order, starting free and set up in the browser.
Tradogram: procurement management software for growing teams, with sourcing, purchasing workflows, approvals, supplier management, spend visibility and procure-to-pay. [8]
Side by side
| What | Mittral | Tradogram |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Free forever: 2 users, 10 purchase orders a month, 1 GB. No card. | No free plan is listed. Essentials has a “Get Started” button; Premium and Scale are sold through a demo. [1] |
| Cheapest paid plan | $39 a month for 5 users and 75 purchase orders a month (USD, billed monthly). | Essentials: $99 a month billed monthly, or $950.40 a year billed yearly (“Save 20%”), for “1+ users”, with an additional user fee whose amount is not published. The currency is not named on the page. [1] |
| How pricing scales | Per workspace, by users and purchase orders a month: Starter $39, Growth $128, Business $227, Enterprise $550. No overage charges. | By plan and users: Essentials $99 a month (1+ users), Premium “Custom Quote” (20+ users), Scale “Custom Quote” (unlimited users). Additional user fees apply on Essentials and Premium. On Essentials, requisitions, receiving, sourcing (RFQ and RFP), real-time budget tracking, contract management, inventory management, custom approvals routing and multi-entity are add-ons; implementation, PunchOut, accounting integrations, SSO and API access are add-ons on every plan. [1] |
| Approval routed by amount | Every request is routed by its total excluding tax. On a person’s approval path they have their own limit; above it the request goes to each approver in turn until one whose limit covers the total signs it off. People without a path follow a workspace rule an admin sets. | Yes: approval workflows can be configured by amount, department, supplier, GL code, project, location or category, or a combination. [2] |
| Several approvers in sequence | Yes: each approver on the path in turn, then super users when no limit covers the total. | Yes: multi-level approval routing through “as many approval levels as your policy requires”. Custom approvals routing is included on Premium and Scale and an add-on on Essentials. [2] |
| Self-approval blocked | Nobody can approve a request they raised, even if they are an approver on its path. | Not stated on their site. [2] |
| Approver away | An approver, or an admin for them, marks the days they are away. Requests move on to the next approver on the path or to super users, or to a colleague an admin names to cover, who decides with the away approver’s limit. | Pending approvals can be escalated to the next approver or handed to a configured delegate when an approver is unavailable, depending on your rules. [2] |
| PO sent to the supplier | After the final approval, Mittral generates a numbered purchase order as a PDF and emails it to the supplier. | Approved requests become purchase orders, and approved orders are sent “directly to suppliers” from Tradogram. The page does not say whether this is by email or as a PDF. [3] |
| Revise, resend, cancel a PO | An issued purchase order can be revised, sent again or cancelled by the requester or an admin, and its history stays on the request. | Change orders: after issue, changes to lines, quantities, prices or dates go through a change request for approval, and an updated PO version is sent to the supplier, with version history. Cancelling a PO is not stated on their site. [3] |
| Your logo on the PO | On Business and Enterprise, the purchase order PDF and supplier email carry your own logo and colour; other plans use Mittral’s template with a small “Powered by Mittral” line. | Yes: reusable purchase order templates with your logo, required fields and document structure. [3] |
| Send from your own email | On Business and Enterprise, supplier orders can be sent from your own email address, through Microsoft 365 or your mail server’s SMTP settings. | Not stated on their site. Their integrations page lists email platform connections but does not say orders are sent from your own address. [4] |
| Several buying entities | One workspace holds several buying entities, each with its own legal name, address and VAT number on its orders, and branches under them that print as the delivery location. | Yes: “Multi-Entity & Locations” to manage several branches and entities, included on Premium and Scale and an add-on on Essentials. [1] |
| Quotes and photos on a request | A request can carry PDF, JPG or PNG attachments, up to 10 files, such as the supplier’s quote or a photo. | Yes: custom request forms can include attachments, alongside required fields, categories and approval rules. Each requisition can be checked against budget at submission. [5] |
| Duplicate quote warning | A quote or reference number entered on a request is checked against other requests awaiting approval or already approved, and a possible duplicate is flagged before submission. | Not stated on their site for quotes or requests. Their home page says duplicate invoices are caught automatically. [6] |
| Audit log | Admins have an audit log of changes made in the workspace. | Yes: every approval, rejection, delegation and escalation is recorded with who acted, what changed and when. [2] |
| Getting data out | Starter, Growth, Business and Enterprise include CSV export of issued orders and signed webhooks that send each issued order to your own systems. A workspace admin can export the workspace’s records and files, and delete the workspace after a grace period in which the deletion can be cancelled, from the app. | Reports and procurement records can be exported, including saved report views and scheduled exports. [7] |
| Accounting connection | Mittral does not connect to accounting software. Issued orders leave by CSV export and webhooks on paid plans. | Yes, as an add-on on every plan (“ERP / Accounting Integrations”; price not published). API access is also an add-on. [1] |
| Goods receipt and invoice matching | Not included. Mittral covers purchase requests, approvals and purchase orders. It does not receive goods, hold budgets, match invoices, pay suppliers or keep stock. | Yes: AP invoices “with matching” are in every plan; receiving (GRN) is included on Premium and Scale and an add-on on Essentials. Supplier payments and expense management are in every plan. [1] |
| Support | Business and Enterprise include dedicated support, and the workspace can be set up with you. | Knowledge base on every plan; chat support on Premium and Scale; dedicated support and a custom SLA on Scale. [1] |
Choose Mittral if
- You want to start without paying: Mittral’s Free plan covers two users and ten purchase orders a month, and Tradogram lists no free plan.
- You want published prices for a whole team: Mittral’s plans are priced per workspace with the users included, where Tradogram adds a per-user fee it does not publish and sells Premium and Scale by quote.
- Your need is requests, approval by amount and a purchase order to the supplier: on Mittral these are part of every plan, while on Tradogram’s Essentials plan requisitions and custom approvals routing are add-ons.
- You want every plan to be self-serve: Tradogram sells Premium and Scale through a demo.
Choose Tradogram if
- You want goods receipt, invoice matching and supplier payments in the same system as your purchase orders. Mittral does none of these.
- You need budgets checked as requests are raised, or approval rules by department, supplier, GL code or category as well as amount.
- You want purchase orders and invoices to flow into your accounting software through a ready-made connection.
- You also need sourcing events (RFQ and RFP), contracts, inventory, expenses or PunchOut catalogues.
In short
Tradogram covers much more of procurement than Mittral: receiving, invoice matching, payments, budgets, sourcing and accounting software connections, with the fuller set on quoted plans. Mittral does one part, getting a purchase request approved and a purchase order to the supplier, with a free plan and published prices that include the users. If you need procure-to-pay, look at Tradogram; if you need approvals and POs in place quickly, Mittral is the simpler start.
Sources
- https://www.tradogram.com/pricing
- https://www.tradogram.com/approval-workflow-automation
- https://www.tradogram.com/purchase-order-management
- https://www.tradogram.com/integrations
- https://www.tradogram.com/purchase-requisition-management
- https://www.tradogram.com/
- https://www.tradogram.com/reporting-analytics
- https://www.tradogram.com
Tradogram is a trademark of its owner. Mittral is not affiliated with Tradogram. Their column reports what their public pages said on the date above; tell us at support@mittral.com if something has changed and we will correct it.