The tour · stop 3 of 6 · invoices
The math argues with the vendor so you don't have to.
Every café loses money in the gap between what was ordered, what was delivered, and what was billed — a few croissants at a time, forever. Butter closes the gap the morning it opens.
Forward it, or snap it.
Butter does the rest.
A real inbox, owned by your café
Every café gets its own forwarding address. Put it on the vendor's invoice list once and the paper handles itself; a “only accept from approved senders” switch keeps strangers out. Van already pulled away? Snap a photo instead.
Reads the vendor's dialect
“Butter Croissant 12ct” arriving as “BTRCR-12” still matches — Butter learns each vendor's aliases and scores the likeness instead of demanding exact spelling.
Matched to the right order, the right day
The invoice lands against the purchase order whose window covers the printed delivery date — and for Mon-Wed-Fri vendors, against that day's quantities, not the weekly total. Every line gets a verdict: match, short, over, unexpected, or never invoiced.
The credit email writes itself
“Ordered 12, invoiced 10 — short 2” becomes a polite, specific, ready-to-send email while the delivery is still on the counter. Recovered credits are the fastest money in the building.
Catches the quiet stuff
A likely duplicate invoice gets flagged before it's paid twice. A vendor raising prices gets a notification the day it shows up on paper — not at month close.
No order? Still checked
Deliveries without a PO are compared against that day's demand forecast, so surprises get flagged and the forecast gets another day of receipts.
recovered: 2 morning buns · $7.50 · every week · forever
Early access · rolling out batch by batch
Stop paying for croissants that never arrived.
Independent cafés first · no contract · just fewer guesses