Reading a vendor invoice on Thrive starts at $178 a month, plus $2 every time you do it. Fireworks is $79 for as many as you send, and your catalog stays in Square instead of moving into another platform to get it.
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Thrive Inventory is a good product and it does far more than this one does: reporting, stock forecasting, min and max levels, bundles and recipes, multi-channel sync across Shopify and Clover and BigCommerce. If you need a back office, that is a real back office and nothing here will tell you otherwise.
But most people land on a page like this after one specific afternoon. A vendor invoice arrived as a PDF or a photo, Square would not take it, and they went looking for software that would read it so they did not have to type it out. If that is the whole job, $178 a month is a platform bought to get a feature. This is the feature, on its own, for $79.
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Thrive's plan prices are not the comparison, because most of their plans cannot read an invoice at any price. This is what it costs per month to actually get one read.
| To read a vendor invoice you need | Cost per month to do it | Plus, every invoice |
|---|---|---|
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$79 | Nothing. No per-invoice charge, no line caps. |
| Thrive Standard + AI Assist | $178 | $2 per purchase order |
| Thrive Professional + AI Assist | $308 | $2 per purchase order |
| Thrive Elite | $519 | $2 per purchase order |
| Thrive Starter | not possible | AI Assist is not sold on this plan at all. |
The cheapest way to read a vendor invoice on Thrive is $178 a month, before you upload anything, and $2 every time you do past your included drafts. Fireworks is $79, and reading the invoice is the product rather than an add-on to it.
Fireworks is one price. No card required to start your 14-day free trial.
Thrive prices above are their published annual rates as of August 2026. Billed monthly they are $59, $129, $279 and $559. Check their pricing page before you decide, not ours.
There is a right answer to this and it is not always us.
You want one catalog across Square and Shopify and Clover. You want forecasting, min and max levels, bundles and recipes, a reporting suite. You are willing to make Thrive the place you work.
Worth knowing before you commit, in their own words on their Square page: "All inventory, catalog, and stock levels edits should be made in Thrive Inventory", and "any changes made directly in Square will not be reflected in Thrive Inventory." That is a real decision, not a gotcha.
You want the invoice read, the products matched to what you already sell, the cost attached and the stock counted in. Square stays your system of record and nothing moves anywhere.
$79 a month, every invoice, no per-order fee and no line caps. There is no meter, so you never stand there deciding whether a three-line delivery is worth putting through. Putting everything through is also how it learns your catalog.
Only if what you wanted from Thrive was the invoice read. Thrive is a back office: reporting, forecasting, bundles and recipes, multi-channel sync. Fireworks does one job. If you need the back office, buy the back office.
Invoice reading sits in their AI Assist add-on at $59 a month on top of a plan, and it is not sold on their entry plan at all. The cheapest combination that can do it is $178 a month, then $2 per purchase order.
No, and that is the point of the design. Square stays your system of record. Fireworks reads your catalog, hands you a list to approve, and writes back what you approved.
No multi-channel sync, no reporting suite, no demand forecasting, no bundles or recipes or bills of materials. Naming that here is cheaper for both of us than you finding it out in week two of a trial.
No. Fireworks works with every Square plan, including the free one.
Connect your Square account and send one invoice. Fourteen days free, no card, and you can cancel inside the trial without being charged.
Take the last invoice a vendor sent you, the awkward one, and upload it. Fourteen days free, no card, and you will know inside ten minutes whether this is the thing you were looking for.
Connect Square to start your trialMore on the job itself: importing a vendor invoice into Square and receiving against a PDF invoice.