Running a Restaurant isn’t Doing AP Paperwork
Take AP off Your Plate with Ottimate
Manual AP eats hours and hides spending. Ottimate automates invoices, approvals, and payments so you can focus on guests, not paperwork.
Key challenges for restaurants
Restaurant owners and managers are buried in invoices, approvals, and vendor payments. Manual AP slows service, drives errors, and hurts profits.
Late or missed payments
Manual invoice processing
Disparate workflows
Faster AP for restaurants and hospitality
Lazy Bear struggled with managing the stream of invoices while keeping them organized and paying bills on time. Vendors became frustrated by missed payments and invoices. By implementing Ottimate, they were able to focus less on AP processing and more on growing their business.
Keep your team out of the back office
Ottimate understands, analyzes, and automates your AP—improving accuracy, speeding up processing, and cutting risk so you can run a more profitable operation.
Smart invoice capture
Precise GL coding
Reports and dashboards
Vendor payment
Streamline AP, serve better
A Guide to AP Automation for Restaurants
The ultimate AP automation guide for restaurants shows you how to turn back-office chaos into a streamlined, accurate operation—freeing your team to focus on delivering fast, high-quality service to every guest.
Pay vendors directly with one platform
VendorPay
With VendorPay, you can pay your vendors via your preferred payment method through one platform. Gain greater insights into cash flow by being alerted when upcoming payments will be made and when a payment is due.
Manage spend centrally
Control spend with ease
Cover incidentals, manage utilities, make one-time or recurring purchases, and control team spend—all from your Ottimate account. Spend Management Essentials gives you the tools you need to manage expenses simply and effectively.
Frequently Asked Questions
Stop Letting AP Eat Your Profits
Cut hours of manual AP, capture every discount, and keep vendors happy without pulling managers off the floor.
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What Ottimate customers say on G2
Ottimate has helped other restaurants increase efficiency across their invoice-to payments lifecycle by introducing AI-powered automation.
“I love once you have submitted the invoices you can check payment status if a vendor does call regarding payment. You can even send them copy of the check information.”
“It saves us a significant amount of time daily by streamlining invoice approvals, exporting accurate data, and providing easy access to invoice and approval history.”
“Easy to use, keep all the receipts in order, track your orders”
“Ottimate saves me so much time! I used to spend all day scanning an entering invoices and now the process has been streamlined so that I can take advantage of that extra time and be more productive on the task at hand!”
“I love that it saves me TONS of time and its so easy to use and navigate. Solves so many problems and keeps our filing system organized.”
“I make it very easy for me to submit my bills. They are available to be review and approve very fast.I like that it show the amount of the invoice that I’m paying when in approving them.”