How it works
What happens to an invoice after you send it
You send it however it reaches you — PDF, photo, forwarded email. Everything after that is ours.
60 days free. No card required.
How do I get my invoices in?
Drag a PDF into the dashboard, snap a photo on your phone, or forward the supplier email. Broadline distributors, produce houses, seafood, dairy. If it has line items, it works.
- PDF, JPG, PNG, and WebP. Nothing needs reformatting first.
- Azure Document Intelligence reads every line, pack size, and price. It scores its own confidence field by field.
- Anything scoring under 0.8 waits for your review before it touches your price history.
- Fuel surcharges and delivery fees are kept separate. They never get averaged into what a product costs.
What if my supplier changes the pack size?
That's the case this was built for. A case of mushrooms going from $9.84 to $33.85 is obvious. A shift from "6×5 lb" to "4×5 lb" at the same case price is not. The invoice line looks identical, but you're paying 50% more per pound.
So we convert every line to a base unit price — $/lb, $/gal, $/each — and match the same item across invoices and suppliers. You get price history you could never build by hand.
- Pack-size formats parsed: "4/10 lb", "6×5 lb", "6/#10", clamshells, sacks, bunches.
- Canonical item names match "Mushroom, Button 10lb" and "White Mushrooms 10#" as the same thing.
- Monthly dollar impact is computed from actual invoice quantities, not manual input.
When do I hear about a price change?
As soon as the invoice lands. Every item sits in one of four states. Jumps and unstable items show up in your feed right away. Gradual creep surfaces as a trend over weeks.
Price jump
Sudden move above your threshold (default 15%).
Gradual increase
Steady uptrend week over week.
Unstable
High variance. Useful when deciding whether to lock in a price.
Stable
No action needed.
Questions
Before you start
Does it work with a photo of an invoice?
Yes. Photograph the invoice with your phone and upload the JPG or PNG. Clean, flat, well-lit shots read best. Anything the extractor isn't confident about is held for your review instead of being written straight into your price history.
What happens if it reads something wrong?
Every field gets a confidence score. Anything below 0.8 is flagged as needing review, so you see and correct it before it affects a price trend. You can open any invoice and check exactly what was extracted, line by line.
Do I have to enter my recipes or count inventory?
No. CostCreep only reads what is already printed on your supplier invoices. There is no recipe costing, no inventory counting, and no POS or accounting integration to set up.
How many invoices can I upload?
Up to 25 a week, on every account. There is no separate tier or per-invoice charge.
Start with last week's invoices
You already have them. 60 days free, no contract, cancel whenever you want.
Nothing to install, and no card to start.