Your AP team keys invoices by hand, checks them by hand. And the duplicate still slips through.
The reality
Invoices arrive as PDFs, email attachments, scanned paper. Someone opens each one, reads off the vendor, amount, tax, and PO number, and types it into the ERP. Then they match it against the purchase order and the goods receipt (the three-way match), code it to the right GL account and cost centre, and route it for approval. Multiply by several hundred invoices a month.
What it costs
Hours of keying every single day. A mistyped amount becomes a wrong payment. The same invoice, received twice, gets paid twice, and nobody catches it until the vendor statement doesn’t tie. Early-payment discounts evaporate because approvals crawled. And at month-end, accruals get estimated because open invoices were never fully captured.
What we automate
- Invoice data extracted automatically from the document
- Three-way match run against PO and goods receipt
- Duplicates and price/quantity mismatches flagged before payment
- Line items pre-coded from vendor history
- Only the genuine exceptions surface for a human
“Reviews the flagged exceptions and approves. Not typing. Verifying.”
| Vendor | Invoice | Amount | PO · GRN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meridian Industrial | INV-88213 | ₹4,82,650 | Matched |
| Kore Logistics | INV-10457 | ₹1,18,200 | Matched |
| Apex Fabrication | INV-70091 | ₹12,45,900 | Qty mismatch |
| Trident Polymers | INV-33518 | ₹78,400 | Matched |
| Kore Logistics | INV-10457 | ₹1,18,200 | Duplicate |
| Sundara Metals | INV-55742 | ₹6,03,150 | Matched |
Invoices auto-matched to PO and GRN; only the 6 exceptions need a human. Shown with representative data; your deployment runs on yours.