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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

WhatMittralTradogram
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

  1. https://www.tradogram.com/pricing
  2. https://www.tradogram.com/approval-workflow-automation
  3. https://www.tradogram.com/purchase-order-management
  4. https://www.tradogram.com/integrations
  5. https://www.tradogram.com/purchase-requisition-management
  6. https://www.tradogram.com/
  7. https://www.tradogram.com/reporting-analytics
  8. 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.

Try Mittral on one team.

Mittral is free forever for 2 users and 10 purchase orders a month, with no card needed. Set-up happens in the browser: create a workspace, add your entities and people, set limits, and raise the first request. No installation and no sales call.