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Written by
Daniela Marchetti
The average cost to process an invoice manually has been pegged at between $15 and $20 by various studies, and polls of a sample of Octacom’s clients. This, of course, depends on whether line items are captured and costs, proportion of PO vs. non-PO invoices, and whether 3-way matching is a part of invoice processing.
The Hidden Cost of Invoice Exceptions
When you consider invoice exceptions, where an error is identified in the invoice that requires time to resolve internally or with a vendor, they can require a significant amount of time and complexity to the task, increasing that cost to $60 or more.
Octacom finds that average exception rates are as little as 3% of total invoices processed, but can be as high as 10% or more depending on compliance internally in the PO process and vendor compliance to listing items correctly on their invoices.
The Savings from AP Automation
Knowing that approximately 95% or more of invoices can result in straight-through processing, there are ample savings for companies that are contemplating AP Automation, by reducing the cost to process from $20 today to as little as $1 per invoice.
If your business is spending an unreasonable amount of time and money within your AP department correcting errors and manually handling paper invoices, you should consider automating your AP processes.
Advantages of Replacing Manual Invoice Processing
Here are the main advantages of replacing manual invoice processing with AP automation:
Eliminate manual data entry of invoice data
Automate 2-way or 3-way PO matching
Manage exceptions digitally with ease
Manage approval workflows digitally
Achieve 24 hour turnaround times with 99.9% + accuracy
Enable your AP team to focus on more strategic areas of payables, including spend management analysis
Increase financial certainty and efficiency ratios with low per invoice pricing
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