For farms and agribusinesses in South Africa
Every farm purchase approved before it’s ordered.
Mittral takes a purchase from the farm to an approved purchase order. The right person signs it off at their limit, the supplier gets an order number in the right farming entity’s name, and the office can see each approved order, and the farm it’s for, before the invoices come in.
- Free for 2 users and 10 purchase orders a month
- Works in rand, with VAT at 15%
- No card needed to start
Where the money gets committed today
The order is placed on a phone call. The owner sees it on the statement.
A phone call to the co-op is the order
A farm manager phones for fencing material or calls a mechanic out to a tractor. Nothing records who agreed to what, or at what price.
The owner finds out a month later
The co-op account or the mechanic’s invoice is the first the owner or financial manager sees of the spend, when it is too late to question it.
Every farm signs off its own way
One unit asks the general manager, another just buys. The limits are agreed, but nothing checks a purchase against them when the money is committed.
Invoices arrive with nothing behind them
No order number, and sometimes the wrong farming entity on the invoice. The office phones each farm to find out what a delivery was for.
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 farm manager picks the farming entity, supplier and block or season, adds the lines and attaches the quote and a photo of the broken part.
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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 office checks it against an order that was approved before the purchase, in that entity’s name.
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
Each farm’s purchases, signed off by the right person at the right limit.
Each person has a rand limit. Pick a request to see who has to act. Nobody can approve their own request.
Built the way a farming group is structured
Your terms on the left. Where they live in Mittral on the right.
| What you call it | In Mittral |
|---|---|
| Farming company or trust | Entity. Its own legal name and address print on its orders, with its VAT number when it has one. |
| Farm, unit or packhouse | Branch. Each request names one, it prints as the delivery location on the order, and a person’s approval path can differ per branch. |
| Season, block or orchard development | Project. A request can be tagged to it. |
| The co-op and your preferred suppliers | Approved suppliers, listed first on the request form. |
| The borehole contractor you use once | Once-off supplier, added on the request itself. |
| The quote and a photo of the broken part | Attachments. PDF, JPG or PNG, up to 10 files per request. |
| The supplier’s quote number | Quote / reference no., used to flag a possible duplicate request. |
| Who may sign for how much | Approval paths, with a rand limit for the requester and for each approver. |
What changes
The same diesel, parts and repairs, with a record at each step.
| Today | With Mittral |
|---|---|
| Diesel, parts and repairs are ordered by phone | A request is raised with the quote and a photo attached |
| The mechanic starts on someone’s word | The supplier receives a numbered purchase order by email |
| Limits depend on people remembering them | Every request is routed by its total, excluding VAT, and a person’s path can differ per farm |
| Orders go out in whichever name the manager remembers | Each order prints the chosen farming entity’s legal name and address, and its VAT number |
| The owner first sees the cost on the statement | The invoice carries an order number that was approved before the purchase |
| Who approved what is in someone’s messages | 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 rand 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 South Africa? See Mittral for farms and agribusinesses in United Kingdom.
Start with one farm.
Real requests from day one, with no change to how invoices are processed today.
- Start free. Create a workspace, add your farming entities, farms and packhouses, preferred 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 farming entities, farms and packhouses, preferred suppliers and approval limits with you, in rand with VAT at 15%. Enterprise also includes custom on-site training.