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AP automation, document processing, and how finance teams cut manual work.
AP AutomationSome property AP work is repeatable and some needs judgement about leases, budgets and suppliers. A step by step view of what managing agents can safely automate, and what should stay with a person.
Finance OpsHow accounts payable works for UK block and estate managing agents: service charge funds and headings, schedules, VAT, utility bills, approvals across client boards, statements and year end, with the four ways agents run it.
Finance OpsAn invoice coded to the wrong schedule still balances, but the wrong leaseholders pay for it. How schedules work, where coding goes wrong, and the evidence that gets it right first time.
Finance OpsHow VAT applies to service charges on UK residential and commercial property, with HMRC sources: exempt residential charges, the option to tax, management fees, insurance and utility recharges, and what it means for accounts payable.
Finance OpsCommunal electricity, gas and water bills look simple and cause a surprising share of AP errors. The six places mistakes creep in, from competing totals to estimated reads, and the checks that catch them.
Finance OpsThe approved mileage rate for cars and vans rose to 55p a mile from 6 April 2026, the first rise since 2011. The full 2026/27 rates, how the 10,000 mile threshold works, passengers, and what changes for payroll and expenses.
Finance OpsOne supplier statement can cover dozens of buildings. How block managers reconcile statements against the purchase ledger, the five differences to look for, and a monthly routine that keeps them small.
Finance OpsHow block and estate managing agents can automate supplier invoices and utility bills: matching each one to a property, proposing the service-charge coding, routing approvals and posting into MRI Qube or Blocks Online.
Finance OpsMany electrical wholesale suppliers already send invoices electronically into Stratas. How those invoices, and supplier PDFs, can be matched against the orders and goods receipts in the ERP you already run.
AP Automation3-way matching compares a purchase order, a goods receipt note and a supplier invoice before you pay. It is the control that stops overpayments and duplicate invoices.
IDPA touchless invoice travels from arrival to a posted record without anyone opening it, keying a field or clicking approve. Here is what has to be true for that to happen, and why aiming for 100% is the wrong target.
IDPOCR reads the characters on a page. IDP works out what the document is, extracts the fields that matter, and checks them. Here is where that difference starts to matter for a finance team.
Finance OpsA short list of accounts payable KPIs turns a vague sense of how AP is doing into numbers you can benchmark and target. Here are the five that matter and what good looks like.
Finance OpsPeppol is the network behind structured e-invoicing in a growing number of countries. Here is what it is, how it works, and what it means for UK finance teams.
AP AutomationAP automation is software that captures, reads, matches, approves and posts your supplier invoices into the ERP you already run. Here is how it works and where its limits are.
Finance OpsWidely quoted estimates put the cost of processing a supplier invoice by hand at £4 to £25. Here is what sits inside that number, and how to work out your own.
AP AutomationA clean invoice costs almost nothing to process. The exceptions, the ones that stop and wait for a human, are where the real cost of accounts payable hides.
AP AutomationMost AP automation selection checklists are written by the vendors being compared. Here is what actually predicts whether a rollout works.
AP AutomationAn invoice approval workflow decides who signs off a supplier invoice, and in what order, before it gets paid. Good design is what keeps invoices moving through the chain.
Finance OpsGRNI is the accrual account your ERP uses for goods you have received but not yet been invoiced for. A little is normal. A growing balance is a sign that invoices or matches are going astray.
Valid invoices can stall before approval when the route, matching basis or failed-check response is wrong. Here is how to find the hold.
See how Stratas handles your invoices, documents, and approvals end to end.
