Glossary
What is accounts payable automation?
Accounts payable automation replaces the manual steps of handling supplier invoices, capturing them, reading the data, checking it, routing approvals, with software that does the work and surfaces only what needs a person. Done well, it turns the 3 to 5 minutes of hand-keying per invoice into about 30 seconds, and it heads off the two expensive mistakes: paying late and paying twice.
What it covers
AP automation usually spans five steps. Few tools own all of them; most take a slice.
- Capture: getting invoices in, by email, upload, or API
- Extraction: pulling out vendor, dates, totals, tax, and line items
- Validation: does the math hold, and is this a duplicate
- Approval: routing to whoever signs off
- Handoff: into accounting, or on to payment
Where InvoiceJet fits
InvoiceJet automates the front of that chain. Invoices arrive by email, upload, or API; two models extract and cross-check every field; duplicates are flagged; and clean invoices auto-verify with zero clicks. From there it exports to your books or pushes data by signed webhook.
It does not cut the checks. It gets you data you can pay from without re-typing or re-reading it.
Common questions
Does AP automation remove the human entirely?
No, and a tool that claims it does is the one to distrust. The point is to keep people off the invoices that are clearly fine and put their attention on the ones that are not.
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