AirPurchase

Summary

AirPurchase is an AI-powered procurement and inventory management platform built for the food service industry. It eliminates manual ordering, reconciliation, and stock-taking by automating invoice reading, tracking ingredient prices in real time, and managing inventory across all locations, while integrating with POS, accounting, and ERP systems.

What is AirPurchase?

AirPurchase is an all-in-one restaurant procurement and ingredient management platform designed for the complexity of Hong Kong and Asian food service operations. The system uses AI to automatically recognize multilingual invoices (including handwritten and printed documents), extracting items, quantities, units, prices, and currencies with 99% accuracy. It continuously monitors every purchase, flags price anomalies, and consolidates spending and volume by supplier, giving operators real-time cost visibility. The platform supports multi-location management, central kitchen production scheduling, inventory transfers and stock-taking, and integrates with leading POS and accounting systems such as Eats365, Xero, QuickBooks, and NetSuite for seamless data synchronization.

Core Capabilities

• AI invoice reading: Snap a photo to auto-extract invoice data; supports multilingual, handwritten, and printed documents with 99% accuracy
• Ingredient price alerts: Updates prices on every delivery, compares historical data, and flags abnormal increases instantly
• Supplier analysis: Aggregates purchase amounts and volumes by supplier in real time, identifies over-reliance risks
• Ingredient history tracking: Auto-categorizes ingredients, shows cost breakdown by category, quickly identifies optimization targets
• AI purchase suggestions: Recommends frequently ordered items and reasonable quantities based on order history, reducing omissions and waste
• Mobile stock-taking and inventory management: Staff use mobile interface to count stock, system calculates total inventory value and consumption, supports unit conversion
• Central kitchen management: Unified production order management, standard recipe setup, auto-calculates food cost and margin
• System integration: Connects with POS (Eats365, Everywhere), accounting software (Xero, QuickBooks), and ERP (NetSuite)

Pros

• Massive time savings: AI auto-reads invoices and reconciles accounts, saving 250 hours of manual work per month
• Lower ingredient costs: Real-time price monitoring and supplier analysis reduce costs by an average of 5%
• Unified multi-location management: All branch orders, inventory, and production orders on one platform, visible to HQ
• Real-time data transparency: Every purchase, price, and supplier auto-recorded; cost issues detected early
• Flexible system integration: Seamlessly connects with existing POS, accounting, and ERP systems for auto data sync

Positioning & best fit

AirPurchase is purpose-built for Hong Kong and Asian food service operators who need precise cost control and multi-location coordination. Whether you run a restaurant chain or an independent establishment, the system simplifies procurement, increases inventory transparency, and enables data-driven decisions.

Best fit for:

• Restaurant chains: Manage multi-location procurement, inventory transfers, and central kitchen production; unified cost and supplier performance visibility
• Central kitchen operators: Schedule production orders, calculate food costs, handle internal and external orders to boost revenue and efficiency
• Independent restaurants: Reduce manual reconciliation and stock-taking time, track ingredient prices in real time, prevent cost overruns
• Businesses seeking system integration: Already using POS or accounting systems and want to connect procurement, inventory, and financial data flows