Buying supplies for an office or a club

Somebody in every office ends up buying the coffee. Somebody in every club ends up buying the snacks for the Saturday game. It is usually the same person every time. They keep the list in their head, the receipts in their bag and the budget in a spreadsheet nobody else opens. This guide is for that person.

Everybody asks, one person buys

In an office or a club, anybody can notice the coffee is low. In ManyStops a member asks for what is missing, and the group owner decides what goes on the list. The request lands in one place, where a message in a busy chat would scroll away.

A group bigger than six

The free plan fits a group of up to six people. A team, a department or a club is often bigger. Teams is the plan for that: a group of any size, with Plus for everybody in it. It is priced per group, by the year or by the month, on our pricing page.

Keeping to a budget

A club's snack money is a fixed sum, and an office's coffee is a line in somebody's accounts. Set a budget on the way you plan to shop today, and ManyStops says what the trip will probably cost before you leave. When the list comes to more than the budget, it suggests the items that can wait. Both come with Plus, and every member of a Teams group has Plus.

The receipts in one place

Every finished trip keeps its total, and a photo of the receipt when you take one. Past trips are a table you can sort by store and by date. At the end of the month the numbers are already together for whoever keeps the books.

The same stores every time

Supplies tend to come from the same few places, such as a warehouse club for the big packs and a supermarket for the milk. ManyStops learns the order you walk each store, and it plans the trip across them with the drive to each. The person who buys can do it in less time, and anybody can stand in for them with the same list.

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