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For local government

Local economic stimulus, already sitting in your budget

Your city already spends millions with local vendors. The money is budgeted, the invoices get approved, and the payments go out. The only real variable is when the vendor actually sees it.

Lunch lets your vendors take that money as soon as their work is approved instead of waiting out the payment cycle. Your budget, your approvals, and your payment run stay exactly as they are, and the program costs your city nothing.

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Invoice 16829
$18,400.00
City approves
Your normal workflow
Day 0
Vendor can take payment
Optional, funded by Lunch
Day 1
City pays
Same amount, same date
Day 30
Cost to the city$0

Who does what

Your team
Approve invoices as you do today
Run payments on your normal schedule
Sign one agreement to start
Nothing new to learn and nothing new to procure.
Lunch
Tells your vendors the option exists
Enrolls them and handles the agreements
Funds the early payments
Answers every vendor question
Reports payment history to the credit bureaus
Keeps records for audit
Vendor support runs through us, not your AP staff.

What changes

One thing. Your vendors gain a choice they didn't have before.

 
Today
With Lunch
Approval workflow
Unchanged
Unchanged
Payment run timing
Net 30/45/60
Net 30/45/60
Amount your city pays
Invoice total
Invoice total
Payee
The vendor
The vendor
Cost to the city
$0
$0
Vendor payment options
Wait
Wait or early

Connecting your invoice data

We connect to your ERP to read which invoices are approved and when they're scheduled to be paid, and to update payment details for the vendors who enroll. Your approval workflow, your payment run, and your controls stay as they are.

We work with the major government ERP systems and we'll walk your IT and finance teams through the connection before anything is set up.

Invoice
Status
Pay date
16829
Approved
11/14/26
16831
Pending
11/21/26
16834
Approved
11/14/26
16836
Approved
11/14/26
16841
Pending
11/28/26
1,284 more
Vendor asks aboutWho answers
Status of an approved invoiceLunch
When funds will arriveLunch
How the fee was calculatedLunch
Enrollment and paperworkLunch
support@lunchpayments.com

“Where is my payment?”

Vendors who want to know where a payment stands ask us.

Full record of every early payment
Same vendor, same amount, same date
Vendor consent on file
Enrollment and program volume reporting

Audit and reporting

Every early payment is documented. Your payment record shows the same vendor, the same amount, and the same date it would have shown otherwise. Your finance team gets reporting on enrollment and program volume.

See what this would look like in your city

Tell us about your agency and we'll walk you through the program, the paperwork, and what your team would actually need to do.

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