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    Ottimate

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AOttimate is an automated accounts payable platform.N/A
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    Ottimate
    Editions & Modules
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    Ottimate
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Ottimate
    Considered Both Products
    Ottimate
    Chose Ottimate
    We like the automated coding that Plate IQ provides vs. bill.com. It also helped that all of our locations could be viewed on the same dashboard. When you have five separate business all being managed by the same team, it's important to have dashboard functionality across all …
    Incentivized
    Chose Ottimate
    PiQ costs $250K less than netsuite (at a minimum). Unless you have/need netsuite, no comparison.
    Bill.com isn't targeted, and doesn't give the functionality that PiQ has for analytics by SKU.
    Expensify is the closest in ease of use. They are not competitive; just very similar.
    Incentivized
    Chose Ottimate
    We used DocuWare first; great experience; however, it was not made specifically for restaurant clients like Plate IQ is. Plate IQ does a much better job of recognizing common items, and they've continued to add a function that is important for restaurant owners. Restaurant …
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Ottimate
    Payment Management
    Comparison of Payment Management features of Ottimate
    Feature
    Ottimate
    1.5
    2 Ratings
    134% below category average
    Customizable Approval Policies1.62 Ratings
    Financial Document Management1.02 Ratings
    Payment Status Tracking1.52 Ratings
    Payment Audit Trail1.72 Ratings
    Duplicate Bill Detection1.62 Ratings
    Advanced OCR1.72 Ratings
    Electronic Funds Transfer1.62 Ratings
    Accounts Payable
    Comparison of Accounts Payable features of Ottimate
    Feature
    Ottimate
    1.4
    2 Ratings
    135% below category average
    Automated Accounts Payable Processes1.62 Ratings
    Vendor Management1.52 Ratings
    Tax Form Preparation1.12 Ratings
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    Ottimate
    Small Businesses
    BILL
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Stampli
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Yooz
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Ottimate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.5
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Ottimate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ottimate
    It is well targeted at restaurants and similar service organizations with complex COGS. It dovetails well with complementary systems like FinTech payments. It wasn't designed by accountants, so there is a bit of roughness. Reporting is very limited: would like to see some SQL / build your own report functionality. Lookups are reasonably robust (filter for amount, time, vendor, etc). It is occasionally unstable but recovers gracefully. From our use case, it would be preferable to have the user approving the invoice ALSO have the ability to attach documents. This is left to the payment approver, who in our case is the "check signer".
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    Pros
    Ottimate
    • OCR
    • Workflow
    • Support
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Ottimate
    • Provide better analytics in terms of cost increases per item.
    • Provide the ability to create recipes and forward price increases to those recipes for accurate food cost projections.
    • Free Bill Pay
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    Support Rating
    Ottimate
    They have a dedicated support person for each customer who actually knows the product.
    Turnaround is usually within an hour or faster.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ottimate
    We used DocuWare first; great experience; however, it was not made specifically for restaurant clients like Plate IQ is. Plate IQ does a much better job of recognizing common items, and they've continued to add a function that is important for restaurant owners. Restaurant 365, we felt, was trying to be a complete package of accounting/AP/AR/inventory. After looking at each piece, we didn't feel that each of them was as strong as the other.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Ottimate
    • In my opinion, it has had zero impact on ROI now that we are paying for an additional year.
    • Another negative is that we've spent a lot of time discussing this issue with Plate IQ, to no avail. They feel it's appropriate to charge a company for an entire year of service even though said company emailed to cancel prior to the end of the first year of service.
    • We also wasted a lot of time onboarding this company only to find out that the software left a lot to be desired.
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