For manufacturing and engineering teams in South Africa
Every breakdown part approved before it’s ordered.
Mittral takes a breakdown from the shop floor to an approved purchase order. The right manager signs it off within their limit, the supplier gets an order number, and finance can see each approved order before the invoice lands.
- 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 part is ordered on a phone call. Finance finds out from the invoice.
The part comes from whoever answers
A line stops on night shift and the maintenance supervisor phones the first supplier who picks up. The price is agreed verbally, if at all.
Breakdowns go around the signing limits
Nobody wants to wake the plant manager for a motor rewind, so urgent buys go through on trust and are explained afterwards.
Invoices arrive without an order number
Finance wants an order number on every supplier invoice before it is paid. Creditors end up chasing the plant to find out who agreed to the work.
Maintenance spend is known at month end
A commitment only shows once its invoice is captured, which is too late to question a price.
How it works
Request, approve, order. Then the invoice has an order number 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 maintenance supervisor picks the company, supplier and job, adds each line as stock, consumable or service, and attaches the quote and a photo of the nameplate.
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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. Finance checks it against an order that was approved before the work started, then processes it for payment.
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 signing limits, applied to every breakdown.
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 plant is run
Your terms on the left. Where they live in Mittral on the right.
| What you call it | In Mittral |
|---|---|
| Operating company or group subsidiary | Entity. Its own legal name and address print on its orders, with its VAT number when it has one. |
| Plant, site or workshop | Branch. Each request names one, it prints as the delivery location on the order, and a person’s approval path can differ per branch. |
| Cost centre, shutdown or capex job | Project. A request can be tagged to it. |
| Your approved vendor list | Approved suppliers, listed first on the request form. |
| The rewinder who answered the phone at 2 a.m. | Once-off supplier, added on the request itself. |
| Stock items, PPE and consumables, and contract services | Line types. Each line is stock, service, consumable, stationery or other. |
| The quote and a photo of the failed part | Attachments. PDF, JPG or PNG, up to 10 files per request. |
| Signing limits | Approval paths, with a rand limit for the requester and for each approver. |
What changes
The same breakdowns, with a record at each step.
| Today | With Mittral |
|---|---|
| The part is ordered on a phone call | A request is raised with the quote and a photo of the failed part attached |
| The supplier starts on someone’s word | The supplier receives a numbered purchase order by email once it is approved |
| A box of PPE waits for the same sign-off as a motor rewind | Anything within the supervisor’s own limit is approved straight away |
| Urgent requests stall while a manager is on leave | Requests go past an approver who is away, or to a colleague covering for them |
| The same quote can be paid twice | The quote number flags a possible duplicate request |
| Creditors chase the plant to confirm each invoice | The invoice carries an order number that was approved before the work |
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 manufacturing and engineering teams in United Kingdom.
Start with one plant.
Real requests from the next breakdown, with no change to how invoices are processed today.
- Start free. Create a workspace, add your entities, plants, approved vendor list and signing 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 entities, plants, approved vendor list and signing limits with you, in rand with VAT at 15%. Enterprise also includes custom on-site training.