Vendor invoices in, item costs up to date
Give vendors your store's own invoice address. Their EDI files become vendor orders and update your item costs, and paper invoices are scanned at the counter.
Your store's invoice address
Each store gets its own e-mail address for vendor invoices.
EDI files filed for you
A vendor's EDI invoice file becomes a vendor order and updates the item costs.
The Store Inbox
Mail from an unknown sender waits in the Store Inbox for you to check.
Daily cost updates
A daily e-mail lists the item costs that changed, so you can check your prices.
Invoices that do the typing
Vendor invoices
Each store gets its own invoice e-mail address.
Cost updates
New costs land on the item, with a daily cost-change e-mail.
Vendor orders
Orders and order lists, by vendor.
Expenses
What each vendor cost you, every month.
What you get
Invoices by e-mail
Vendors send invoices to your store's own address. EDI files from known vendors are filed, and mail from anyone new waits in the Store Inbox.
- EDI files become vendor orders
- Item costs updated from the invoice
- Upload a TXT, CSV or EDI file yourself
Paper invoices at the counter
Scan a paper invoice at the store, and the picture stays with the purchase and the shift.
- Paper invoices scanned at the store
- Purchases and expenses at the store
- Scans attached to the shift
Purchases and costs in one place
Grocery Purchases shows your vendor orders, purchases and cost updates together.
- Purchase summary and vendor orders
- Cost updates by item
- Items that stopped selling
Questions and answers
Which vendors can send EDI files?
Vendors that send EDI invoice files. Each vendor's file is checked before it updates your costs, and you can always upload a file yourself.
Does Advantage read paper invoices?
No. Paper invoices are scanned and kept as pictures with the shift, and your crew enters the totals.
What happens to mail from a new sender?
It waits in the Store Inbox until you look at it, so nothing unknown changes your costs.
What is in the daily cost-update e-mail?
The items whose costs changed, so you can decide whether to change their prices.
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