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Invoices that enter themselves

Every line of every supplier invoice, read as it arrives and checked against what you ordered. What matches is entered. What does not match waits for you.

Nobody retypes a PDF. The work you keep is the part that needs a decision: a price that moved, a case that never came, a credit that has still not appeared.

How an invoice reaches us

Suppliers do not agree on a format, and the service does not ask them to. However an invoice arrives, it is read the same way.

  • By email

    A PDF attached to a message, forwarded to one address you never have to open yourself.

  • On paper

    Photographed at the delivery door with a phone. A creased invoice on a counter still reads.

  • From a portal

    Collected from the supplier's own site, so nobody has to remember to log in for it.

What is checked, line by line

An invoice is compared with the order it belongs to. 4 things are looked at, in this order.

  1. The line exists

    Every line on the invoice is matched to a line you ordered. A line you never ordered is a mismatch.

  2. The quantity

    What was billed against what was delivered, cases and weights included.

  3. The price

    The unit price against the price agreed with that supplier, not against the last invoice they sent.

  4. The total

    Discounts, deposits and tax added back up, because correct lines can still sit under a wrong invoice total.

What still comes back to you

The service enters invoices. It does not decide what to do about the ones that are wrong.

  • Whether to accept a price rise

    A supplier who has raised a price is a conversation, not a data entry problem. You are told, and you decide.

  • Whether to pay

    No payment is made and none is scheduled. Entry is where this stops.

  • A dispute with a supplier

    The service names the difference and gathers what proves it. Someone on your side sends the email.

Questions owners ask

What happens to an invoice with no order behind it?
It is entered and marked as unmatched rather than held back. A standing delivery with no paperwork is ordinary, and an invoice stuck in a queue helps nobody.
Does this work with my accounting software?
It writes into the file or the software you already use. If yours cannot be written into, we say so before the work starts rather than after.
How long before I see the mismatches?
The same day the invoice arrives. A difference found 3 weeks later is a difference you have already paid.

This is one of 6 tasks the service covers. See the whole list, before and after, or read how AI phone answering handles a call.

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