Accounts Payable

Ten stages, six handovers, plenty of places for control to slip. Follow one purchase, then score your own.

Purchase-to-Payment Control Score

Interactive tools

Accounts Payable, Budgets, FinOps platform, Purchase Orders

How much control do you really have from request to payment? Score your process and see where it slips.

FinOps Platform Savings Calculator

Interactive tools

Accounts Payable, FinOps platform

What does manual finance work cost you? Put in your numbers and see what you could save.

Scaling without the overhead: invoice automation for the mid-market

Guides

Accounts Payable

More invoices, same team. What invoice automation looks like for mid-market finance, and how to roll it out.

Bottleneck to baseline: optimising accounts payable

Guides

Accounts Payable

The seven places invoices stall, what to measure first, and four ways to fix the flow.

Two-way, three-way, no-way

Guides

Accounts Payable

Paying for goods that never turned up? A practical guide to invoice matching, tolerances and exceptions.

The AP numbers that matter

Guides

Accounts Payable

Ten invoice KPIs, the benchmarks behind them, and three decisions that cost nothing to make.

Measure your AP in ten numbers

Guides

Accounts Payable

How to calculate ten AP measures from data you already hold, and the small fixes that move them.

Speaking CFO: how to build a business case for finance automation

Guides

Accounts Payable, FinOps platform, Order Management

Six steps to turn team pain into a business case your CFO will sign off.

Two-way vs three-way matching: which one you need

Blog posts

Accounts Payable

Two-way or three-way matching? It depends on what you're buying. Here's how to choose.

Finance automation business case template

Templates

Accounts Payable, FinOps platform, Order Management

Build the case for automating AP in six steps. Payback and three-year return worked out for you.

E-invoicing 2029: what UK finance teams need to do now

Guides

Accounts Payable

From April 2029, every VAT invoice in the UK will have to be an e-invoice. A PDF doesn’t count. Here’s what’s been decided, what hasn’t, and seven things you can do now.

Supplier bank detail fraud: a 10-point checklist for AP teams

Checklists

Accounts Payable

A supplier asks to change their bank details. Ten checks your AP team should run before paying a penny.

Invoice matching tolerances: why a percentage alone isn’t enough

Blog posts

Accounts Payable

A 2% tolerance sounds tight, until a big invoice slips through. How to set matching tolerances that work.

The approval chain audit

Checklists

Accounts Payable, Expense Management, FinOps platform, Purchase Orders

Who can approve what, and can you prove it? Score your approval chain in 10 minutes and see where it slips.

Three-way match exceptions: a cheat sheet

Checklists

Accounts Payable

Price mismatch, no goods receipt, duplicate invoice? Who fixes each three-way match exception, on one page.

Supplier bank detail fraud: the controls a Financial Controller should own

Checklists

Accounts Payable

Bank detail fraud looks like an AP problem, until it isn't. The controls a Financial Controller should own.