The driver is waiting.
Forty lines on the invoice, three pallets on the dock, and someone tapping their foot by the truck. Paper and pen can't keep up, so lines get eyeballed.
Free receiving app · Early access
Catch every short before the truck leaves.
Snap the vendor’s invoice. Palletwalk turns it into a checklist in seconds. Tap each case as it comes off the truck, and send the credit request before the driver pulls away.
Northeast Grocery Co.
1/6
Tap a line when it’s on the dock. Flag shorts and damage.
Any vendor’s invoice. No POS, no purchase orders, no setup. The demo needs no account.
The problem
Receiving on paper leaks money, one case at a time.
Shorts turn up after the truck is gone.
Two cases missing, found an hour later while stocking. Now it's your word against the delivery receipt, and the credit is a fight.
Credits get forgotten.
The crushed case goes on a sticky note. The sticky note goes in a pocket. The vendor never hears about it, and you pay for product you never sold.
The good tools aren't built for the dock.
Invoice software is built for accounts payable: it reads your invoices a day or two later and charges per location per month.
What’s different
A checklist at the dock, in seconds, from the vendor’s own invoice. Free.
Other tools read your invoices for the bookkeeper, a day or two later. Or they only check deliveries against purchase orders you’ve set up in their system. Palletwalk works for the person on the dock, right now.
| Feature | Palletwalk | AP invoice toolsMarginEdge, xtraCHEF, Restaurant365 | Inventory suitese.g. MarketMan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Checklist ready | At the dock, in seconds | 24–48 hours later | At the dock |
| Works from | The vendor’s invoice | The vendor’s invoice | Your purchase orders in their system |
| Setup | None | Built for the back office | Catalog and POs |
| Price | Free | $179–689 per location per month | |
How it works
Four steps, one phone, no setup.
Snap the invoice
Upload the PDF the vendor emailed, or take a photo of the paper copy. Any vendor, any format.
Get a checklist in seconds
Every line, item and case count, ready on your phone. Several invoices in one PDF? It splits them. Original and customer copy? It reads one.
Walk the pallet
Tap each line as it comes off the truck. Mark anything short, damaged, substituted or for credit, with the count.
File it and claim your credit
One tap files the receiving report. Shorts and damage become a credit request for your vendor rep, while the driver is still there.
ReceivedShort / damagedSubstitutedPartialCredit
What it gets you
Faster check-ins. Credits you actually collect.
Invoice to checklist
BeforeTyping it up by hand
With Palletwalk10–20 seconds
for a typical invoice; a 278-line invoice takes about 100 seconds.
When you catch a short
BeforeAfter the truck leaves
With PalletwalkBefore it leaves
because every line is checked at the dock, not reconciled later.
Credit requests
BeforeSticky notes, from memory
With PalletwalkBuilt from your flags
item, count and reason, ready for your rep.
Cost
Before$179–689 / location / month
With Palletwalk$0
Free in early access, with a fair-use cap on AI reading.
Proof
Tested on real invoices, not a demo deck.
11 real vendor invoice PDFs from 4 distributors (Bozzuto’s, D’Artagnan, Seacrest Foods and Shapiro Produce): 82 pages and 1,161 line items, each checked against a hand-made answer key.
- Lines exactly right from PDFs
- 99.7–99.9%
- Lines exactly right from page photos
- 99.8%
- 23-page PDF holding 4 invoices
- Read as 4
- To read a 278-line invoice
- ~100 s
Built on the receiving dock at Bartlett’s Farm, Nantucket
Bartlett’s Farm has been a family farm market since 1843. Palletwalk started there, with founder Luke checking in deliveries on paper with a pen. Bartlett’s is the first business using it, and the invoices above are the kind that land on its dock every week.
Straight answers
The questions every receiver asks first.
Is the AI accurate enough?
On 1,161 lines from real vendor invoices, 99.7–99.9% came out exactly right from PDFs and 99.8% from phone photos. And you're checking every line against the boxes anyway: if a line looks off, flag it.
Our vendors' invoices are a mess.
Palletwalk reads the invoice as a person would, not with a template per vendor. It was tested on four distributors with very different layouts, including scanned pages, multi-invoice PDFs and duplicate copies.
Do I need a POS or purchase orders?
No. The vendor's invoice is the checklist. No POS, no purchase orders, no integration, no setup.
What's the catch with free?
There's a fair-use cap on AI reading per business per day, and it's early access. No ads, and we never sell your data.
What happens to our invoices?
Your data is stored with Cloudflare. Invoice text and images go to Anthropic's Claude API to be read; Anthropic doesn't train on API data by default. Ask and we delete it.
Our dock has bad Wi-Fi and old phones.
Palletwalk runs in any modern phone browser. Nothing to install. It needs a connection to read the invoice and save each tap; the taps themselves are tiny.
FAQ
Frequently asked
Who is Palletwalk for?
Anyone who takes deliveries and checks them in: grocery stores, restaurants, cafés, bars, retailers. If a vendor hands you an invoice, Palletwalk can turn it into a checklist.
What file types work?
Text PDFs (the kind vendors email) and photos or scans of paper invoices. A PDF holding several invoices becomes one checklist, with every line tagged by its invoice number.
What can I mark on each line?
Received, short, not received, damaged, substituted, or credit, with case counts and a note. If the invoice was read wrong, fix the line right there.
What's in the receiving report?
Every line with what you marked and the counts, ready to print or save as PDF, plus a CSV download. Shorts and damage become a separate credit request you can email to the vendor rep or copy into a text. Past reports live in History.
Can my whole crew use it?
Yes. Invite receivers with a link. Accounts have roles (owner, manager, receiver) and support multiple locations.
Do I have to sign up to try it?
No. The demo has sample invoices and needs no account.
Is it really free?
Yes. Palletwalk is free during early access, with a fair-use cap on AI reading per business per day.
Does it replace checking the delivery?
No. It makes checking faster and harder to skip. Always count what's physically on the dock.
Your next delivery could be your first checklist.
Free. No POS, no purchase orders, no setup.