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Invoice processing for UK electrical wholesalersFinance Ops

Invoice processing for UK electrical wholesalers

Many 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.

Jack · 6 min read
Finance automation for property managementFinance Ops

Finance automation for property management

How 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.

Jack · 6 min read
What is 3-way matching?AP Automation

What is 3-way matching?

3-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.

Jack · 5 min read
Touchless invoice processing: what it takesIDP

Touchless invoice processing: what it takes

A 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.

Jack · 6 min read
IDP vs OCR: the difference and when OCR is not enoughIDP

IDP vs OCR: the difference and when OCR is not enough

OCR 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.

Jack · 9 min read
Accounts payable KPIs: what good looks likeFinance Ops

Accounts payable KPIs: what good looks like

A 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.

Jack · 7 min read
What is Peppol? A plain guide for UK finance teamsFinance Ops

What is Peppol? A plain guide for UK finance teams

Peppol 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.

Jack · 6 min read
What is AP automation and how does it work?AP Automation

What is AP automation and how does it work?

AP 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.

Jack · 10 min read
What it costs to process an invoice in the UKFinance Ops

What it costs to process an invoice in the UK

Widely 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.

Jack · 7 min read
Why invoice approvals stall before anyone can approve themAP Automation

Why invoice approvals stall before anyone can approve them

Valid invoices can stall before approval when the route, matching basis or failed-check response is wrong. Here is how to find the hold.

Stratas · 6 min read
What is GRNI and why does it build up?Finance Ops

What is GRNI and why does it build up?

GRNI 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.

Jack · 4 min read
Choosing AP automation: what actually mattersAP Automation

Choosing AP automation: what actually matters

Most AP automation selection checklists are written by the vendors being compared. Here is what actually predicts whether a rollout works.

Jack · 7 min read
The hidden cost of invoice exceptionsAP Automation

The hidden cost of invoice exceptions

A 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.

Jack · 5 min read
Invoice approval workflows that actually moveAP Automation

Invoice approval workflows that actually move

An 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.

Jack · 7 min read

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