Appika Purchasing vs TOKN Purchase Order App

Appika Purchasing is web software for managing purchases, expenses, and reports online. It brings requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipts, and invoices together for creation, approval, and management. Real-time approvals use flexible workflows and customizable routing. Teams can manage vendors and catalogs, and control purchases through approved suppliers and items. Other listed tools include dashboards, serial and lot tracking, partial goods receipts, quote revisions, and combining multiple quotes in one order. The product supports multiple currencies, warehouses, and units of measurement. Users can configure workflows and custom fields on purchase document headers and lines, and attach files and images. Appika describes its cloud platform as sharing sales, inventory, purchasing, and service information across departments. Role-based permissions are included on all plans; Enterprise adds master record security and transaction access control. Pricing starts at $15/user/mo with annual billing, and a 14-day trial offers access to all features without a credit card. There is no free plan.

TOKN Purchase Order App lets workers create and manage purchase orders from mobile devices. Users can view, approve, receipt and transfer orders, attach images or files, and capture signatures. The app can show stock levels, pricing and availability, and search purchase order history and suppliers. TOKN describes it as an offline app that can capture transactions and provide a PO number immediately. The purchasing capability lists real-time integrations with SAP, Pronto, MYOB and Xero. Organizations can add or remove fields and change the app’s design, and users can produce PDF copies of transactions. Native clients are available for Android, iOS and Windows 10, with browser access also supported. TOKN identifies itself as ISO 27001-certified and says its platform encrypts data at rest and in transit, with AWS VPC network controls and firewalls. The platform also lists API access. Pricing is available on request and scales by users and apps. TOKN offers business integration partners a one-month free trial; the page does not specify a purchase-order-app-specific trial.