Receipt Price Sentinel

Snap supplier receipts to catch hidden price hikes automatically.

Problem

Small food business owners order from suppliers whose prices swing wildly. A few items can jump 20–50% and stay unnoticed for weeks because owners only look at monthly accountant numbers, losing margin silently.

Solution

Take a photo of supplier receipts or invoices; OCR extracts item names, unit prices and quantities. Each new receipt is compared with historical unit prices, and alerts are sent by email or chat when increases exceed a threshold. Trends are shown per item.

Users

Owners of small restaurants, cafés, bakeries and quick-service spots who order multiple times a week but reconcile monthly.

MVP

Photo or upload of receipts; OCR to extract items, prices, quantities; manual confirm/correct; highlight any price increase over 10%; per-supplier, per-item trend chart for the last 3 months.

Revenue

Free for 30 receipts per month; subscription at $5–10/month for unlimited receipts and multi-supplier export; affiliate revenue from ingredient sourcing channels.

Why now

Supply chain volatility is squeezing small margins, and modern OCR plus LLM parsing is now cheap and accurate enough for an indie developer to build a reliable product quickly.