Tradeflow

Tradeflow is a purchasing and procurement platform for South African restaurants, bars, cafés, hotels, and caterers, and for the distributors, wholesalers, and producers that supply them. It replaces ordering by phone call, WhatsApp, or email with one digital system.

Key capabilities include:

• Supplier ordering: Order beverages and stock from suppliers in seconds and track each order from submitted to fulfilled and receipted into your POS.
• AI ordering agent: Learns your ordering patterns and sales trends, adjusts for seasonality when connected to your POS, and prepares draft orders you can review, edit, and send with one click.
• Invoice matching: Captures supplier invoices automatically, matches them to purchase orders, and flags differences between what you ordered and what you were charged.
• Spend reporting: Live KPIs by supplier, category, and period, plus alerts for cost variance, shrinkage, and price changes.
• Supplier tools: Suppliers receive structured orders, share live catalogues and promotions with buyers, see order trends, and manage credit risk.

Available on Web, with integrations including Pilot POS, Micros SA, and Xero.

Used by venues such as Liquor City, Spur Steakhouse, and Truth Coffee, Tradeflow reports cutting ordering admin by up to 90% and saving venues around R8,500 a month.