For schools and academy trusts in the United Kingdom
Every school order approved before the supplier is told to go ahead.
Mittral takes a requisition from a department to an approved purchase order. The right person in each school signs it off, the supplier gets an order in the trust’s name, and the finance team can see who approved it, and when, before the invoice arrives.
- Free for 2 users and 10 purchase orders a month
- Works in pounds, with VAT at 20%
- No card needed to start
How a school order happens today
The requisition is signed on paper. The trust finds out from the invoice.
Requisitions wait in a tray
A head of department fills in a paper form and leaves it for the business manager. Nobody knows it has been signed until they ask.
The scheme of delegation lives in a document
The trust sets who can approve what, but nothing checks a requisition against it at the moment the order is placed.
Suppliers go ahead on a phone call
A coach is booked for a trip, or a contractor called out to the boiler, before anyone with the authority has said yes.
Audit means finding the paper
When the auditors ask who approved a purchase, finance goes looking for signed forms in every school.
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 head of department picks the school, the supplier and the trip or project, adds the lines and attaches the quote.
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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 supplier quotes the order number on the invoice. The finance team checks it against an order that was approved before anything was booked.
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 scheme of delegation, applied to every request.
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 trust is organised
Your terms on the left. Where they live in Mittral on the right.
| What you call it | In Mittral |
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| The academy trust | Entity. Its own legal name and address print on its orders, with its VAT number when it has one. |
| Each school or academy in the trust | Branch. Each request names one, it prints as the delivery location on the order, and a person’s approval path can differ per branch. |
| A department, trip, club or building project | Project. A request can be tagged to it. |
| The trust’s approved suppliers | Approved suppliers, listed first on the request form. |
| The coach company booked once for a trip | Once-off supplier, added on the request itself. |
| The quote and the trip letter | Attachments. PDF, JPG or PNG, up to 10 files per request. |
| The scheme of delegation | Approval paths, with a pounds limit for the requester and for each approver. |
| A headteacher away on a residential, or over the holidays | Time away. An approver marks the days they’re away. Their requests move on to the next approver, or to a colleague an admin names to cover, who decides with the same limit. |
What changes
The same orders, with a record at each step.
| Today | With Mittral |
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| A paper requisition waits in the business manager’s tray | A request is raised with the quote attached and goes straight to the right approver |
| The coach company is booked on a phone call | The supplier receives a numbered purchase order by email, in the trust’s name |
| Limits depend on people knowing the scheme of delegation | Every request is routed by its total, excluding VAT |
| The same quote can be ordered twice | The quote number flags a possible duplicate request |
| Requisitions wait while the head is on a residential | Requests go past an approver who is away, or to a colleague covering for them |
| Finance hunts for signed forms when the auditors ask | 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
$0free forever
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 schools and academy trusts in South Africa.
Start with one school.
Real requisitions from day one, with no change to how invoices are processed today.
- Start free. Create a workspace, add your trust, schools, approved suppliers 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 trust, schools, approved suppliers and approval limits with you, in pounds with VAT at 20%. Enterprise also includes custom on-site training.