PurchaseOrders is a Rossum alternative for teams that need purchase order data, not an enterprise AP platform. Rossum is a genuinely strong intelligent document processing suite, but its only published price is a Starter plan starting at $18,000 a year on a one year minimum contract, and it bills per page. Here you sign up, upload a PO, and get Excel, CSV, JSON, or an API response, priced per document with a free tier. Try it on a real PO below.
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Rossum is built for high volume accounts payable automation at enterprise scale, and it is good at that job. The friction shows up when a smaller team just wants purchase order data out of supplier PDFs. Note one thing that most comparison pages on the web have not caught up with yet: Coupa acquired Rossum in May 2026.
Rossum publishes one figure: a Starter plan starting at $18,000 per year, with a stated minimum contract length of one year. The Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate tiers are quote only. If you process a few hundred POs a month, that math is hard to make work.
Rossum documents that it counts every page you import, including pages that contain no captured data, and that duplicates and re-extractions are charged again. Purchase orders run long, so a 12 page order costs 12 pages.
Rossum does offer a 14 day free trial you can start yourself, which some comparison pages get wrong. But three of the four plans are quote only, so actually buying means a sales conversation and a volume band you have to forecast in advance.
Queues, business rules, master data matching, validation workflows, and ERP connectors are real capabilities. They are also a configuration project. If your output destination is a spreadsheet or your own script, that layer is weight you are paying for.
PurchaseOrders does one document: the purchase order. The PO fields are already defined, there is nothing to configure, and pricing is per document with no contract. It is a narrower tool on purpose.
PO number, supplier, ship-to and bill-to, order and delivery dates, payment terms, and the full line-item table are recognized on the first upload. No queues to build, no business rules to write, no field schema to define.
A long purchase order with a line table running over four pages is billed as one document. That is a materially different cost curve from per-page billing when your orders are not one page long.
Sign up and start. There is a free tier to test on your own POs, no annual commitment, no volume band to forecast, and no procurement cycle before you find out whether the extraction is any good on your files.
Download Excel or CSV with consistent headers, pull JSON through the REST API, or push to Google Sheets. If your destination is a spreadsheet rather than SAP, you do not need a connector layer at all.
If your goal is simply getting POs into a spreadsheet, the purchase order PDF to Excel converter does it in one step, and developers can wire the same engine in through the purchase order API. Row level accuracy on long orders is covered in purchase order line item extraction, and a backlog clears through bulk purchase order upload. Since Rossum now sits inside Coupa, teams running that suite should also read purchase order data into Coupa. Weighing other platforms? Compare the Docsumo alternative, Nanonets alternative, and Esker alternative breakdowns, or the whole field in the best purchase order OCR software.
An honest side by side for teams extracting purchase orders. Rossum details reflect what Rossum publishes on its own pricing, platform, and knowledge base pages, verified July 2026.
| PurchaseOrders | Rossum | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Purchase orders only | Enterprise AP and transaction processing |
| Published entry price | Per document, free tier | Starter from $18,000 per year |
| Minimum contract | None | One year, per Rossum pricing page |
| Billing unit | Per document | Per page imported, blanks included |
| Buy without sales | Yes, self-serve | Trial yes, purchase mostly by quote |
| Setup | Sign up and upload | Queues, rules, master data, connectors |
| Validation review UI | On-screen review of results | Best in class, field-level confidence |
| Three-way matching | No, capture only | Yes, PO to invoice to receipt |
| ERP connectors | Excel, CSV, JSON, Sheets, API | Prebuilt SAP, NetSuite, Coupa, Dynamics |
| Best for | Teams that need clean PO data now | High volume AP automation programs |
Rossum figures are taken from Rossum's own published pricing page and knowledge base as of July 2026 and may change; confirm current terms at rossum.ai. Rossum was acquired by Coupa in May 2026; terms were not disclosed and Rossum still sells standalone today. Rossum is a capable platform and genuinely wins on validation workflow, human-in-the-loop review, three-way matching, master data matching, and enterprise compliance, none of which PurchaseOrders does. PurchaseOrders captures purchase order data and hands it back as Excel, CSV, JSON, or an API response. It does not create POs, route approvals, perform three-way matching, or post to an ERP. PurchaseOrders is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Rossum or Coupa.
No annual contract, no volume forecast, no quote. Upload a real purchase order and see the extracted data in seconds.
Drag in a PDF, scan, or photo of a PO from any supplier. There is no queue to configure and no field schema to define first.
Tip: Try a long, multi-page PO. It bills as one document, not as a stack of pages.
The AI reads PO number, supplier, ship-to and bill-to, order and delivery dates, line items, SKUs, quantities, units of measure, unit prices, terms, and totals.
Export clean Excel, CSV, JSON, or Google Sheets, or send the data through the API into your ERP or accounting system.
Yes. Coupa announced it had acquired Rossum on May 12, 2026, at Coupa Inspire, extending Rossum's intelligent document processing across the Coupa portfolio. Financial terms were not disclosed. Rossum still publishes standalone pricing and a trial today, so it remains buyable on its own, but its roadmap is now steered by a source-to-pay suite.
Rossum publishes exactly one figure: the Starter plan starts at $18,000 per year, with a stated minimum contract length of one year. The Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate plans are quote only, and pricing scales with the volume of pages or documents you process. There is no public per-page rate.
Per page. Rossum's knowledge base states that it counts every page you import into the platform and bills for every page of a document, even pages that contain no captured data, and that duplicates and re-extractions are charged again. That matters for purchase orders, where a single order often runs several pages.
Yes. Rossum handles purchase orders alongside invoices, sales orders, bills of lading, and packing lists, and it publishes an order management solution. Its center of gravity is still accounts payable, where POs mostly appear as the matching counterpart to an invoice, so the field set and workflow are shaped around AP.
For purchase orders on their own, a PO-specific tool like PurchaseOrders is the closest fit: the fields are pre-defined, billing is per document, there is a free tier, and there is no annual contract. Rossum remains the better choice if you need validation workflows, three-way matching, and high-volume AP automation across an enterprise.
Yes. Rossum offers a 14 day free trial you can start yourself, so the common claim that you cannot evaluate it without a sales call is not accurate. Buying is a different matter: three of its four plans are quote only, so a purchase generally involves a sales conversation and an annual commitment.
It depends on volume. With a published entry point of $18,000 a year on a one year minimum, Rossum is priced for programs processing large document volumes. A small team clearing a few hundred purchase orders a month will usually get better economics from per-document pricing with no contract.
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