For independent schools in South Africa
Every purchase approved before the supplier is booked.
Mittral takes a teacher’s request from the classroom to an approved purchase order. The person who answers for that spend signs it off, the supplier gets an order number in the school’s name, and the bursar can see each order once it is approved, not when the invoice arrives.
- 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 bus is booked by email. The bursar finds out from the invoice.
The supplier hears yes first
A teacher confirms a booking or an order with the supplier, and the requisition form follows later, if it follows at all.
Paper forms wait for a signature
The form sits in the bursar’s tray, or travels between campuses, while the trip date or the start of term gets closer.
Limits live in the finance policy
The board approved who may sign for what, but nothing checks a purchase against it at the moment the school commits to it.
The board hears about it at year end
Spending agreed in corridors and inboxes only shows once invoices are captured, 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 head of department picks the school, campus and supplier, tags 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 bursar’s office checks it against an order that was approved before the bus 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 finance policy, applied to every request.
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 school is run
Your terms on the left. Where they live in Mittral on the right.
| What you call it | In Mittral |
|---|---|
| The school trust, company or NPC | Entity. Its own legal name and address print on its orders, with its VAT number when it has one. |
| Campus or phase: foundation, prep or college | 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 tour, a trip, or a grant or fundraising project | Project. A request can be tagged to it. |
| The school’s approved suppliers | Approved suppliers, listed first on the request form. |
| The plumber the hostel has never used before | Once-off supplier, added on the request itself. |
| The supplier’s quote number | Quote / reference no., used to flag a possible duplicate request. |
| The finance policy the board signed off | Approval paths, with a rand limit for the requester and for each approver. |
| The bursar’s leave in the school 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 purchases, with a record at each step.
| Today | With Mittral |
|---|---|
| A paper requisition form waits in the bursar’s tray | A request is raised with the quote attached and goes to the right approver |
| A teacher confirms the order with the supplier by email | The supplier receives a numbered purchase order once the request is approved |
| Limits depend on who happens to sign the form | Every request is routed by its total, excluding VAT |
| Forms pile up while the bursar is on leave | Approvers mark their time away, and requests go past them or to a colleague covering |
| The same quote can be paid twice | The quote number flags a possible duplicate request |
| Who signed what is in a filing cabinet | Each request shows who raised it and who approved it, in order |
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 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 schools in United Kingdom.
Start with one department.
Real requests from the first week of term, with no change to how the bursar’s office processes invoices.
- Start free. Create a workspace, add your school entities, campuses, 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 school entities, campuses, approved suppliers and approval limits with you, in rand with VAT at 15%. Enterprise also includes custom on-site training.