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Mittral vs Zahara

Zahara’s pages checked on 8 October 2026. Prices as published, in their currency.

Zahara is accounts payable software for finance teams: purchase orders, budgets, goods receipt, AI invoice reading and matching, supplier payments and expenses, synced to accounting software. Mittral is for any small or mid-sized team that wants each purchase request routed by amount to the right approvers, then sent to the supplier as a numbered purchase order, and stops there.

Zahara: accounts payable software from Bath, UK, that brings purchase orders, AI invoice processing, approval workflows and supplier payments together for finance teams. [7]

Side by side

What	Mittral	Zahara
Free plan	Free forever: 2 users, 10 purchase orders a month, 1 GB. No card.	No free plan is listed. [1]
Cheapest paid plan	$39 a month for 5 users and 75 purchase orders a month (USD, billed monthly).	Teams at £159 a month, excluding UK VAT, for up to 10 users, 120 orders a month and 250 AI-read invoices a month. Also shown in other currencies, including $213 a month. [1]
How pricing scales	Per workspace, by users and purchase orders a month: Starter $39, Growth $128, Business $227, Enterprise $550. No overage charges.	Per plan, by users, orders and AI-read invoices a month, plus business units, divisions, suppliers and storage: Teams £159, Business £289, Enterprise £499 a month, Enterprise + on request. Annual billing saves 17%. Add-ons include extra users at £12 each a month; over a limit you are alerted and can buy a top-up or upgrade. An optional onboarding package is quoted separately. [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: workflow conditions route requests to different managers by value, budget or entity. [2]
Several approvers in sequence	Yes: each approver on the path in turn, then super users when no limit covers the total.	Yes: multi-step workflows with as many steps as you need, for example a line manager and then a finance director above a threshold. A step can go to a group, where any one or all members approve. [3]
Self-approval blocked	Nobody can approve a request they raised, even if they are an approver on its path.	A setting prevents users from approving their own purchases, with a named delegate who approves instead. [4]
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.	Approvers can set the days they are away, and group steps can route around absent approvers. Daily digest reminders can be switched on. [4]
PO sent to the supplier	After the final approval, Mittral generates a numbered purchase order as a PDF and emails it to the supplier.	Automatic PO sending to the supplier as part of the approval workflow, with POs in PDF, CSV and JSON formats. [5]
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.	Not stated on their site. [2]
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.	Not stated on their site. [5]
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. [5]
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.	Business units and divisions: 2 business units on Teams, 10 on Business, more on Enterprise, with extra units at £22 each a month. [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.	Not stated on their site. [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 for quotes or requests. Duplicate invoice prevention is listed for supplier invoices. [5]
Audit log	Admins have an audit log of changes made in the workspace.	A purchase audit trail, with a full audit trail behind every request and approval decision. [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.	Approved documents export to accounting software, by CSV where there is no direct sync, and open API connections are offered. [6]
Accounting connection	Mittral does not connect to accounting software. Issued orders leave by CSV export and webhooks on paid plans.	Direct accounts integration on every plan. Premium integrations are on Enterprise; on-premise sync tools on Business and Enterprise. [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: goods received notes and order receipting, including from the mobile app, matching of invoices to orders, and invoice approvals that can be held until goods are received. AI invoice reading is on every plan. Budget checks when an order is raised, supplier payments, expenses and a supplier onboarding portal are also listed. [5]
Support	Business and Enterprise include dedicated support, and the workspace can be set up with you.	UK-based support. Enterprise + adds a solutions architect, a security review and bespoke onboarding. [1]

Choose Mittral if

You want purchase requests, approvals and purchase orders without taking on a full accounts payable system.
You want to start free: Mittral has a free plan, and Zahara lists none.
You want a lower entry price: Mittral’s cheapest paid plan costs less than Zahara’s Teams plan at £159 (or $213) a month.
You buy for more than one company or site and want each entity’s legal name, address and VAT number on its orders.
You want to revise, resend or cancel an issued order from the app and keep its history on the request.

Choose Zahara if

You want goods receipt and invoices matched to orders, with invoice approvals held until goods arrive, which Zahara includes and Mittral does not offer.
You want supplier invoices read by AI, approved and exported to accounting software, with a direct accounting connection on every plan.
You want budgets for departments, projects and cost centres, checked when an order is raised.
You want supplier payment runs, staff expenses and a supplier onboarding portal in the same system.
You want flexible workflow rules, such as group approvals where any one or all members sign off.

In short

Zahara covers the whole accounts payable process, from purchase order through goods receipt and invoice matching to payment, and is priced for finance teams that need all of it. Mittral covers only the front of that process, purchase requests, approvals by amount and the purchase order sent to the supplier, with a free plan and lower paid plans. Choose by how much of the process you want one product to run.

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