For construction and trades businesses in the United Kingdom
Every order approved before the merchant delivers.
Mittral takes a site manager’s request to an approved purchase order. The right person signs it off, the merchant or hire company gets an order number, and the cost is on record before the invoice lands.
- Free for 2 users and 10 purchase orders a month
- Works in pounds, with VAT at 20%
- No card needed to start
Where the money gets committed today
The order goes in on a phone call. The QS finds out from the invoice.
Materials go straight on the merchant account
A site manager rings the merchant for timber and plasterboard. It goes on the account, and nobody else agreed the quantity or the price.
Plant is booked before anyone signs it off
A mini digger for a week, a skip swap, another lift of scaffold: hire is arranged on a call, and the first record of it is the hire company’s invoice.
Invoices arrive with nothing to check them against
The quantity surveyor has to ring site to ask what each invoice was for, and which job it belongs to.
Orders are known too late
Until the invoices are in, the office can’t see what has been ordered, which is too late to question it.
How it works
Request, approve, order. Then the invoice has an approved order to check against.
The first three steps happen in Mittral. The fourth happens in whatever you use to process invoices today.
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Request
The site manager picks the company, supplier and job, adds the lines and attaches the quote and a photo from site.
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Approve
The request goes to each approver in turn until one whose limit covers the total signs it off.
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Order
A numbered purchase order is emailed to the supplier as a PDF. It can be revised, sent again or cancelled.
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Invoice
The merchant or subcontractor quotes the order number on the invoice. The QS checks it against an order that was tagged to the job and approved before the goods or the work.
Your invoice process
What Mittral covers. Purchase requests, approvals and purchase orders. It doesn’t receive goods, hold budgets or match invoices on its own.
Try the approval path
Your sign-off limits, applied to every order.
Each person has a pounds limit. Pick a request to see who has to act. Nobody can approve their own request.
Built the way a contractor is organised
Your terms on the left. Where they live in Mittral on the right.
| What you call it | In Mittral |
|---|---|
| Your company, or each company in the group | Entity. Its own legal name and address print on its orders, with its VAT number when it has one. |
| Regional office or depot | Branch. Each request names one, it prints as the delivery location on the order, and a person’s approval path can differ per branch. |
| Job, contract or site | Project. A request can be tagged to it. |
| Your merchant accounts and regular subcontractors | Approved suppliers, listed first on the request form. |
| The plant hire firm you have never used before | Once-off supplier, added on the request itself. |
| The quote, the drawing and a photo from site | Attachments. PDF, JPG or PNG, up to 10 files per request. |
| The merchant’s or subcontractor’s quote number | Quote / reference no., used to flag a possible duplicate request. |
| Who can sign off what | Approval paths, with a pounds limit for the requester and for each approver. |
What changes
The same orders, with a record at each step.
| Today | With Mittral |
|---|---|
| Materials go on the merchant account with a phone call | A request is raised against the job, with the merchant’s quote attached |
| Plant and subcontract work start on someone’s word | The supplier receives a numbered purchase order by email once it is approved |
| Limits depend on who picks up the phone | Every request is routed by its total, excluding VAT |
| The same quote can be ordered twice | The quote number flags a possible duplicate request |
| The QS rings site to ask what each invoice was for | The invoice carries an order number that was approved before the work, with the job on its request |
| Who agreed the spend is in someone’s call log | Each request shows who raised it and who approved it, and admins have an audit log |
Plans
Start free. Pay when the team grows.
One workspace covers all your entities and branches.
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Free
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Get your first purchase requests moving.
- 2 users
- 10 POs a month
- 1 GB storage
- PDF export
- Mobile app with offline mode (coming soon)
- Mittral-branded POs
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Starter
$39a month
Bring everyday purchasing into one place.
- 5 users
- 75 POs a month
- 5 GB storage
- PDF export
- Mobile app with offline mode (coming soon)
- Mittral-branded POs
- CSV export and webhooks
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Growth
$128a month
Give a growing team room to purchase.
- 25 users
- 250 POs a month
- 25 GB storage
- PDF export
- Mobile app with offline mode (coming soon)
- Mittral-branded POs
- CSV export and webhooks
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Business
$227a month
Send POs with your own logo and branding, with dedicated support.
- 50 users
- 500 POs a month
- 100 GB storage
- PDF export
- Mobile app with offline mode (coming soon)
- Your logo and branding on POs and supplier emails
- CSV export and webhooks
- Send POs from your own email
- Dedicated support
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Enterprise
$550a month
Unlimited users and POs, dedicated support and custom on-site training.
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited POs
- Unlimited storage
- PDF export
- Mobile app with offline mode (coming soon)
- Your logo and branding on POs and supplier emails
- CSV export and webhooks
- Send POs from your own email
- Dedicated support
- Custom on-site training
Prices are in US dollars per workspace, billed monthly. Where Stripe supports it, checkout can show and charge the price in pounds at Stripe’s exchange rate, which includes a conversion fee. Billing questions.
No automatic overage charges. See what happens at each limit and the full plan comparison.
Not in the United Kingdom? See Mittral for construction and trades businesses in South Africa.
Start with one job.
Real orders from day one, with no change to how invoices are processed today.
- Start free. Create a workspace, add your companies, jobs, merchants, subcontractors and approval limits, and invite the people who request and approve. Free for 2 users and 10 purchase orders a month.
- Grow when you need to. Move to a paid plan when you need more users, orders or storage. Nothing changes for the people raising requests.
- Or have it set up with you. Business and Enterprise include dedicated support: we set up your companies, jobs, merchants, subcontractors and approval limits with you, in pounds with VAT at 20%. Enterprise also includes custom on-site training.