Is Hnry or Ottimate better?

Neither clearly leads. Hnry starts at 1/per $100 income and Ottimate at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Hnry or Ottimate?

Hnry starts at 1/per $100 income and Ottimate at On request.

Does Hnry or Ottimate run on more platforms?

Hnry runs on Web. Ottimate runs on Web, iOS, Android.

What is Hnry best used for?

Hnry is most often used for calculating quarterly tax without manual bookkeeping, logging expenses via photo instantly, sending unlimited invoices with auto-follow-up, automatically withholding income taxes year-round. Of those, calculating quarterly tax without manual bookkeeping and logging expenses via photo instantly are not what Ottimate is typically brought in for.

What can Hnry do that Ottimate cannot?

Ottimate covers Line-item invoice capture, GL coding, Approval routing, Supplier payments.

Accounting · head to head

Hnry vs Ottimate

Hnry

Accounting

Accounting for sole traders and the self-employed

From: 1/per $100 income
Rated: -

Full review Website

Ottimate

Accounting

Invoice capture and accounts payable automation trained on food and beverage distributor formats

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Hnry service limited to self-employed sole traders in New Zealand only; Ottimate nothing is published about price, and quotes are structured by location and invoice volume, so a group with a few high-volume sites and one with many low-volume sites can receive very different numbers for the same total spend
Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Hnry and Ottimate actually diverge.

Attributes where Hnry and Ottimate differ
Attribute	Hnry	Ottimate
Starting price	1/per $100 income	On request
Pricing model	usage-based	quote
Platforms	Web	Web, iOS, Android

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Accounting).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Hnry

Nothing recorded that Ottimate does not also cover.

Only in Ottimate

Line-item invoice capture
GL coding
Approval routing
Supplier payments
Price change alerts
Purchase order matching
Digital invoice retrieval

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Hnry

Calculating quarterly tax without manual bookkeepingnot Ottimate
Logging expenses via photo instantlynot Ottimate
Sending unlimited invoices with auto-follow-upnot Ottimate
Automatically withholding income taxes year-roundnot Ottimate

Ottimate

A 40 site restaurant group whose bookkeepers key distributor invoices line by line to track food costnot Hnry
An operator that wants to know within a week when a supplier raises the price of an item outside the contracted schedulenot Hnry
A hotel group standardising accounts payable approvals across properties that each have their own general manager sign-off rulesnot Hnry
A finance team migrating from paper invoice files that needs digital retrieval from supplier portals rather than chasing branches for copiesnot Hnry

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Hnry

Service limited to self-employed sole traders in New Zealand only
1% + GST fee with $1,500 annual maximum cap
Minimum $0.50 fee per transaction for payments under $50

Ottimate

Nothing is published about price, and quotes are structured by location and invoice volume, so a group with a few high-volume sites and one with many low-volume sites can receive very different numbers for the same total spend
The line-item extraction advantage is trained on food and beverage distributor formats, so accuracy on long-tail suppliers, service invoices and one-off vendors falls back to general OCR and needs human review
It is an accounts payable layer, not an inventory or recipe costing system, so operators still need Restaurant365 or an equivalent for true plate costing and the value depends on that integration behaving
The company has rebranded once already from Plate IQ, and much of the third party comparison material still uses the old name or wrongly attributes it to AvidXchange, which makes independent due diligence unusually hard
Payment execution through the platform introduces a dependency on Ottimate for supplier relationships, and moving away later means re-establishing payment details with every vendor rather than simply exporting data

Pricing, plan by plan

Hnry

1/per $100 income

No published plan breakdown. See the Hnry review.

Ottimate

On request

Ottimate$undefined/year
- Quoted by location count and invoice volume
- Payment rails may carry separate transaction charges
- Implementation and accounting system integration scoped separately

Which should you pick?

Choose Hnry if

Nothing in the data separates Hnry from Ottimate on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.

Hnry review

Choose Ottimate if

You need line-item invoice capture.
You work on Web, iOS, Android.
You also want gl coding.

Ottimate review

Questions people ask

Is Hnry or Ottimate better?: Neither clearly leads. Hnry starts at 1/per $100 income and Ottimate at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Hnry or Ottimate?: Hnry starts at 1/per $100 income and Ottimate at On request.
Does Hnry or Ottimate run on more platforms?: Hnry runs on Web. Ottimate runs on Web, iOS, Android.
What is Hnry best used for?: Hnry is most often used for calculating quarterly tax without manual bookkeeping, logging expenses via photo instantly, sending unlimited invoices with auto-follow-up, automatically withholding income taxes year-round. Of those, calculating quarterly tax without manual bookkeeping and logging expenses via photo instantly are not what Ottimate is typically brought in for.
What can Hnry do that Ottimate cannot?: Ottimate covers Line-item invoice capture, GL coding, Approval routing, Supplier payments.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Hnry: How much does Hnry charge?

Hnry charges 1% plus GST of independent income paid into your Hnry Bank Account, with a maximum annual fee of $1,500. Minimum fee is $0.50 per payment for transactions under $50.

Source

Ottimate: Is Ottimate owned by AvidXchange?

No. Ottimate is the rebranded Plate IQ and operates as an independent venture-backed company. AvidXchange is a competitor, not the parent.

Hnry: Are there joining fees for Hnry?

No, Hnry has no joining fees, upfront payments, or credit card required to sign up.

Source

Ottimate: What was it called before?

Plate IQ. The company kept the same product and renamed it Ottimate.

Hnry: Is the Hnry fee tax deductible?

Yes, Hnry automatically claims its fees as a business expense on your behalf, making them tax-deductible.

Source

Ottimate: Does it work outside restaurants?

It will process any invoice, but the line-item extraction accuracy that justifies the price is tuned to food and beverage distributors. Other industries should test carefully before committing.

Ottimate: Does it replace Restaurant365?

No. It handles invoice capture, approval and payment. Recipe costing and restaurant-specific inventory stay in Restaurant365 or an equivalent.

Hnry vs Ottimate

Hnry

Ottimate

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Hnry

Only in Ottimate

What people use each for

Hnry

Ottimate

Where each one falls short

Hnry

Ottimate

Pricing, plan by plan

Hnry

Ottimate

Which should you pick?

Choose Hnry if

Choose Ottimate if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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