AP Automation Software for Grocery

Experience a better way to manage the entire invoice lifecycle while maximizing profits and catching cost variations with ease — all in one place.

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Follow Your Invoices from Loading Dock to ERP

Find Price Discrepancies with Ease

Uncover cost and delivery variances to identify discrepancies and minimize the impact on your bottom line.

Improve the Efficiency of your AP Team

Ottimate automates over 90% of the accounting process, reducing manual errors and saving you time.

Gain Insights into the Purchase Process

Remove the guesswork from DSD receiving and ensure you buy at the best value.

Make More Strategic Business Decisions

Otti AI parses through millions of data points instantly and learns from them so you can focus on critical strategic decisions.

Improve Profitability

Ensure every dollar spent is approved, catching errors before they grow and setting rules around any dimension.

Reduce Risk & Increase Security

Prevent fraud by eliminating duplicate invoices and carefully tracking every touchpoint in the invoice lifecycle.

Maintain Oversight with Multiple Locations

Maintain oversight of invoices at every store with our advanced approval policies.

Increase Awareness Over Cashflow

Smoothly sync your invoice data with leading retail ERPs and operations technology, like LOC SMS.

Accounts Payable Software for Grocery Stores

Ottimate automatically tags each line item with the proper GL code, helping you review and approve invoices 80% faster than manual AP processes.

Safeguard Margins And Improve Cost Controls

Download the ultimate guide to AP automation for grocery, where cost-saving maximization meets cutting-edge efficiency.

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Stay Ahead of the Competition with Detailed Insights & Reports

From the office to the aisles, Ottimate ensures you’re stocked up on savings, with intelligent insights into your invoices and inventory spending that help uncover cost-saving opportunities to boost your bottom line.

Support complex workflows with Advanced Approval Routing

Need to send invoices to third parties or central locations for approval? Create custom rules using any data field that appears on an invoice:

  • Vendor
  • Department
  • Location
  • GL Account
  • Min / Max Total
  • Method Received
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“Our grocery clients are short-handed everywhere right now. They needed a way to receive, process, and pay invoices without the staff they used to have. Ottimate has been perfect. Invoices and approvals are digitized beautifully and we’ve been able to cut document storage almost completely.”

Lance Nieland

CPA & Partner,
Retail Financial Services

Sync with Leading Retail Software

Ottimate understands the unique needs of the grocery space — especially when it comes to your technology of choice. That’s why we integrate with popular retail software and ERPs, including:

  • LOC SMS
  • NCR Encor
  • NCR Advanced Back Office
  • NCR Power HQ
  • Retalix HQ

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Pay Vendors at the Speed of Light

Ottimate’s VendorPay solution gives you the power to pay your vendors via their preferred payment types, including virtual card, ACH, and checks. Select payment types also offer you the opportunity to earn while you spend, with competitive cashback.

  • Schedule payments in a single click
  • Save on check stock & mailing supplies
  • Choose from 3 popular payment types
  • Select payment speeds to meet your needs

“The receiver match is more immediate now because we scan the invoice into Ottimate, it matches instantly against the PO, and we catch the exceptions. That’s better for us rather than the manual process that we had before.”

Greg Flores, Corporate Controller

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See how AP Automation for Grocery can Transform Your Operation

Ottimate Integrates With Your Accounting Platform

Seamlessly connect your AP data with the technology you’re already using.

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More From Ottimate’s Customers

A restaurant program is rocking the grocery world.

I would recommend [Ottimate] to any industry for invoice management and streamlining.”

Ottimate Retail User, verified by G2

Love this software!

Ottimate has made processing invoices so quick and efficient for my department. I love how easy it is to look up past invoices and items. I also love that it
automatically highlights credits, making them easy to spot.

Ottimate Mid-Market user, verified by G2

Ottimate allows us to keep track of all our invoices

[It] totally streamlines your Accounts Payables, [is] able to analyze reports
generated via invoices processed through Ottimate, [and] all invoice records are in one
place for future reference.”

Ottimate Mid-Market user, verified by G2

Ottimate is a game changer

Between the scanning entry
feature and ability to give vendors a unique email address for invoice submissions, your
data entry time for invoices decreases significantly in a measurable and material way.

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