Finance Document Automation

Automate invoice processing and PO matching

Unstract reads every invoice as it arrives, matches it to the purchase order and the goods receipt in your ERP, and posts the clean ones for payment.

invoice-77310 · AP inbox, 14 linesrunning
Invoice intake1 invoice, 14 lines
Read & extract38 fields
3-way match1 held for an AP clerk
Post to ERPERP · approvals
09:02:11Invoice from AP inbox · Acme Supply · 14 lines · PO 45120
09:02:15Read · 38 fields · lowest confidence 0.93 (scanned page 2)
09:02:16Match · line 6 billed $42.80, PO price $38.50 · held for an AP clerk
09:19:40Buyer approved the new price · PO 45120 updated
09:19:41Posted to ERP · bill BILL-77310 · payment scheduled for 11/28

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The problem

Invoices arrive in an inbox, not in the ERP

The purchase order and the goods receipt are already in your ERP. The invoice arrives as a PDF, a scan or an email body, and an AP clerk keys it line by line while the due date gets closer.

INVOICENOVDUE IN 3 DAYS

Line items keyed by hand while the due date approaches

INVOICERECEIVED 10/24

A scanned invoice, skewed, with a stamp over the total

INVOICE 77310LINE 642.80PO 45120 · ERPLINE 638.50

A unit price that doesn't match the purchase order

INVOICE 77310 · THREADOCT 21to buyerOCT 24reminderOCT 27past dueOCT 28⚑ fwd to AP

An invoice sent to a buyer, forwarded to AP a week later

PAID BILLSINV-77310Acme6,412PAIDINV-77310Acme6,412⚑ 2ND

A duplicate invoice found after both were paid

Every one of them has to be read, matched to the PO and the goods receipt and keyed into the ERP before it can be paid.

Unstract reads each invoice as it arrives, checks it against the purchase order, the goods receipt and earlier invoices, and posts it to your ERP. An AP clerk sees only the invoices that don't match.

How it works

From the AP inbox to the ERP, without the keying

Five steps, run on their own for every invoice. Parsing by LLMWhisperer, extraction by Document Studio, the whole run by Flow.

1 · Invoice intake

Pick up invoices wherever they land

Invoices arrive in the AP inbox as PDFs, scans and email bodies, and as downloads from supplier portals. Each one is picked up where it arrives and tied to its vendor and its purchase order, one record per invoice.

Nobody forwards an invoice to a folder and forgets it. The run starts the moment the invoice exists.

AP INBOX · EMAILInvoice 77310.pdfMAILROOM · SCANPaper invoiceVENDOR · EMAIL BODYInline invoiceSUPPLIER PORTALPortal downloadINVOICE 77310vendorAcmePO45120lines14receipt1
2 · Classify and extract

Read every invoice, then pull the header and every line

LLMWhisperer reads each invoice as text with its layout kept, so a skewed scan or a line table that runs onto a second page comes out as cleanly as a PDF. The invoice is classified by vendor, currency and type (invoice, credit note or statement), and Document Studio extracts the fields you defined: vendor, invoice number and date, PO number, every line item, tax and totals.

The same field definitions run on every invoice, whatever layout the vendor uses.

INVOICEvendorAcme Supply✓invoice_no77310✓po_number45120✓typeinvoice✓lines14✓total$6,412.30✓confidence0.93page 2 scan
3 · Three-way match

Match every line to the PO and the goods receipt

Each invoice line is matched to its purchase order line and to the goods receipt in your ERP: quantity received, unit price and total, within the tolerance you set. An invoice that matches keeps moving. One that doesn't stops in a review screen with the invoice line, the PO line and the receipt side by side.

Set the human-in-the-loop conditions once (a variance above tolerance, no PO, a low-confidence read) and only those invoices wait for a person.

INVOICE 77310 · HELD⚑ PRICE, LINE 6INVOICEPO · ERPGOODS RECEIPT$42.80line 6 · 120 ea$38.50PO 45120 · line 6120✓GR-88214 · 10/24VENDORTOLERANCEBUYERAcme Supply2% or $5R. ChenAPPROVE PRICESEND TO BUYEROpen the page →
4 · Duplicate and tax checks

Catch duplicates and changed bank details before payment

Every invoice is checked against earlier invoices for a repeated number or amount, against the vendor master for changed bank details, and against its own lines for tax and totals that don't add up. A flagged invoice stops before it reaches a payment run.

New or changed bank details always go to a second reviewer, so a change can't ride through on a routine invoice.

INVOICE 77310 · CHECKSInvoice numbernew for this vendor✓Amount and dateno near match in 90 days✓Bank detailschanged since last payment⚑Tax8.25% of $5,900.00 adds up✓Totallines, tax and freight agree✓SECOND REVIEWER: AP LEAD
5 · Approve and post

Post matched invoices where AP already works

Matched invoices post to your ERP for payment, in NetSuite, QuickBooks or the system you run, and exceptions follow your approval chain to the buyer or the budget owner. Each decision a person made along the way is recorded against the invoice.

Nothing is keyed twice, and the audit trail builds itself as the run goes.

INVOICE 7731014 lines, matchedPrice approvedERP✓ posted 09:19BILL-77310APPROVAL✓ approvedR. ChenPAYMENT✓ scheduledRun 11/28

See it run on a week of your own invoices.

Bring the invoices from one AP inbox. We run them live and show every field, every check and every exception.

Supported documents & fields

Everything that arrives with an invoice

Fields captured

Vendor name and addressInvoice numberInvoice and due datesPO numberLine itemsQuantities and unitsUnit pricesTax amountsInvoice totalCurrency
Connectors

Our agents are extroverts.

Cloud storage like S3, Google Drive, Dropbox and Box. Databases and warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres and SQL Server. Accounting, ERP and CRM systems like QuickBooks, Xero, SAP, NetSuite, Salesforce and HubSpot. Project trackers like Jira, Asana, ClickUp and Linear. And anything with an API.

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Connectors ready to go right out the box
Amazon S3
Google Drive
Dropbox
Box
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Storage
Snowflake
BigQuery
PostgreSQL
SQL Server
MySQL
Amazon Redshift
Oracle Database
SAP
QuickBooks
Xero
Sage
Odoo
HubSpot
Zoho
Jira
Asana
ClickUp
Linear
Getting live

Live on one AP inbox first

No developers on your side, and no big-bang cutover. The run is built on your own invoices and proven on one AP inbox before it goes further.

01

Book a consultation

We look at a week of your invoices together: which vendors send them, how they arrive, and what AP checks before an invoice is paid.

02

Built on your documents

The fields, the matching against your POs and goods receipts, and the connection to your ERP are set up on your own invoices, not samples.

03

Pilot on one inbox, then roll out

One AP inbox runs live within days. When the numbers hold, the other inboxes follow, and the exception rules carry over.

Who it's for

Built for the teams that run accounts payable

Accounts payable teams

AP automation that posts invoices the day they arrive and leaves only the price and quantity variances on a clerk's screen.

Procurement and purchasing teams

Only the invoices that don't match a PO, with the PO line beside the invoice line.

Controllers and finance operations

A month-end close without a backlog of unposted invoices, and an approval recorded against every one.

Shared service centers and BPOs

Invoice automation across every entity and client, each with its own tolerances, approval chain and ERP.

Outcomes

Invoices posted in minutes, exceptions caught before payment

<3 minfrom the AP inbox to a bill posted in your ERP
91%of matched invoices posted without a clerk touching them
54%fewer hours spent keying invoices and chasing matches
2×faster from invoice received to approved for payment
Unstract helps me automate invoice processing… This reduces manual data entry, saves time, and makes invoice processing faster and more efficient.
G2Sandhika L.Data Engineer, Leadwalnut · Reviewed on G2
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Security

Safe to run your invoices and vendor records through

Invoices and vendor records carry bank account and routing numbers, tax IDs, prices and payment terms, and a changed bank account on a routine invoice is how payment fraud gets paid.

AICPA SOC 2ISO 27001GDPRHIPAA
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest.
  • Invoices and vendor records are never used to train models.
  • Access by role, entity and document type, with every review and correction recorded against the invoice.
  • Retention you set: processed invoices are deleted on the schedule you choose.
  • Self-hosted deployment for AP teams whose controls keep invoice processing inside their own environment.
See how invoice and vendor data is handled in the Trust Center
FAQs

What AP managers ask before they start

Invoices and credit notes in any layout, purchase orders, goods receipt notes, delivery notes and packing lists, payment vouchers for non-PO spend, vendor master data forms, W-9s, quotations and vendor statements. Open POs, receipts and vendor records come from your ERP, and you can add anything else that arrives with an invoice.

Most invoice automation software covers capture: invoices read into fields. The checking still happens by hand, with a clerk comparing each line to the PO and the receipt, chasing duplicates and keying the exceptions. Unstract runs those checks on every invoice and posts the clean ones to your ERP, so the clerk sees only the invoices that don't match.

In two passes. LLMWhisperer first turns each page into text with the layout kept, so a line table stays a table even on a skewed scan or a phone photo. Document Studio then extracts the fields you defined by what they mean, not where they sit, so a vendor's new layout returns the same record. Every value carries a confidence score.

Each invoice is read in the language it was written in, and the currency is captured as printed alongside every amount. Matching runs against the PO in its own currency, so a euro invoice is checked against a euro PO line rather than a converted guess.

Three-way matching checks that each invoice line agrees with the purchase order and the goods receipt before it's paid: quantity received, unit price and total, within your tolerance. Unstract runs it on every invoice, along with checks for repeated invoice numbers, changed vendor bank details and tax that doesn't add up. A failed check holds the invoice with the reason attached.

Keep the model on the page and check its output. LLMWhisperer gives the model the real text of the invoice, Document Studio extracts against your field definitions, and Flow checks every amount against the PO, the receipt and the invoice's own totals. A figure that fails a check stops for a person instead of posting.

It stops in a review screen that shows the line, the page it was read from, and the PO and receipt it was checked against, side by side. An AP clerk approves it, corrects it or sends it to the buyer, the decision is recorded against the invoice, and every other invoice keeps moving.

To the systems AP already uses: the bill to your ERP or accounting system, such as NetSuite or QuickBooks, ready for the next payment run, exceptions to your approval chain, and a copy to a shared drive or a database if you want one. Flow posts it as part of the run, so nothing is downloaded and keyed again.

Unstract is SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA compliant. Invoices are encrypted in transit and at rest, never used to train models, and kept only as long as you choose, and any change to a vendor's bank details goes to a second reviewer before a payment run. Self-hosted deployment keeps processing inside your own environment; see the Trust Center.

You don't need developers. In a consultation we build the invoice run around your own invoices, your checks and your ERP, run it on one AP inbox, and most teams are live there within days. The other inboxes follow when the numbers hold.

Next step

Bring a week of invoices to the consultation

The invoices from one AP inbox, the skewed scans included. We run them live and show every field, check and exception.