Basware vs Stampli

Requirement evaluated: Virtual card program with rebate revenue; we want to shift 30%+ of spend to virtual card

For a $120M services company running two Sage Intacct entities and targeting 30%+ of spend on virtual card, Basware does offer virtual card as one of four payment rails within its payment module (check, ACH, virtual card, and wire from a single application), and its launch documentation explicitly states that clients can 'generate rebates on their spend' through this payment capability. The CorPay technology partner page on Basware's current website confirms an ongoing relationship with a commercial card infrastructure provider, which is the typical mechanism for sourcing virtual card issuance and rebate revenue share. …

Limitations: Basware's primary buyer-revenue mechanism in its current marketing is early payment discounts (dynamic discounting funded by the buyer's own cash), which is structurally different from virtual card interchange rebates; a buyer focused on virtual card rebate revenue as a financial goal should confirm with Basware direct …

Requirement evaluated: Virtual card program with rebate revenue; we want to shift 30%+ of spend to virtual card

For a $120M multi-location services company looking to shift 30%+ of spend to virtual card, Stampli offers two complementary native mechanisms within Stampli Direct Pay. The first is Stampli Card: when an invoice is approved, the AP team can pay the vendor using a single-use virtual card generated per transaction; the vendor receives card details via the Stampli Vendor Portal or a secure link and processes it to collect funds. Vendor Managers can invite vendors to accept card payments in bulk from the Vendor Management screen. …

Limitations: The rebate ceiling is documented at 'up to 1%' with no publicly enumerated volume tiers, so the buyer cannot negotiate a higher rate through platform volume alone; actual rebate earned will also depend on whether vendors are enrolled in the Paymode network (for E-Payments) …

Requirement evaluated: Data encryption at rest and in transit

For a $120M services company routing 1,800 invoices per month through Basware into Sage Intacct, all invoice data, vendor credentials, and payment information are protected at both storage and transmission layers. Basware's own published legal documentation explicitly states that 'network traffic over public Internet is encrypted and customer data in storage is encrypted,' with encryption key management handled using Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) in accordance with industry best practices. This covers both the data-at-rest requirement (invoice documents and financial records stored in Basware's cloud environment) …

Limitations: Basware does not publicly name specific cipher parameters (such as AES-256 key length or minimum TLS version) on its public trust pages; buyers who require contractual confirmation of these specifics, for example to satisfy an internal security questionnaire or cyber insurance requirement, must request the full SOC 2 / …

Requirement evaluated: Data encryption at rest and in transit

For a multi-location services company moving from manual email-and-spreadsheet AP to an automated platform, data protection must cover every touchpoint: invoice ingestion, in-platform processing, ERP sync to Sage Intacct, and payment execution. Stampli addresses all of these on its published Security Policy and Practices page. <cite index="1-4">All data sent to or from Stampli is encrypted in transit using 256-bit encryption.</cite> <cite index="1-1,1-2">API and application endpoints are TLS/SSL only, using only strong cipher suites.</cite> <cite index="1-3">Data at rest is encrypted using an industry-standard AES-256 encryption algorithm.</cite> For the highest-sensitivity fields your AP te …

Limitations: Stampli's security policy page does not specify the minimum TLS version enforced (e.g., TLS 1.2 vs. 1.3), nor does it detail key management practices such as rotation schedules or HSM usage; buyers with formal information security policies requiring those specifics should request Stampli's full security whitepaper or d …

Requirement evaluated: Multi-entity support within the integration; we operate 2 entities in Intacct and plan to add a third

Your scenario involves 2 active Sage Intacct entities with a third planned, all processed through a centralized 3-person AP team. Basware's platform is built around an organizational structure that accommodates multiple companies or entities within a single AP processing environment: its developer XML integration guide instructs customers to submit one master data file per ERP system and notes that 'the organization structure created in Basware AP Automation affects how data is loaded,' with company codes used as prefixes in external record identifiers (e.g., [companyCode]_[AccountCode]). …

Limitations: Basware carries genuine multi-entity architectural capability, but because the Sage Intacct integration is not a pre-certified marketplace connector, entity-level GL posting fidelity (posting to the correct Intacct entity ID, syncing each entity's chart of accounts and vendor master separately, and routing approval wor …

Requirement evaluated: Multi-entity support within the integration; we operate 2 entities in Intacct and plan to add a third

For a two-entity Sage Intacct environment growing to three, Stampli operates within a single platform account that mirrors Intacct's entity hierarchy directly. At invoice ingestion, entities are assigned automatically: AP staff email invoices to a dedicated alias that encodes the Intacct entity key (e.g., companyID+Entity-KEY@mystampli.com), and Stampli pre-populates the working entity on the invoice record before any human touches it (Stampli Help Center, 'Email Address for Auto Assigning Invoices to Entities'). …

Limitations: The multi-location payment feature (Direct Pay) must be enabled at the account level for entity-isolated payment runs; buyers should confirm this is included in their contracted tier before go-live. …

Requirement evaluated: Role-based access control with entity and department-level restrictions

For a $250M technology company with 4 US offices and a Canadian development center moving off email-based purchasing, Basware delivers role-based access control at multiple layers of its AP Automation and P2P platform. Administrators assign users to configurable user groups (the 'Groups' object in Basware's P2P/Admin API), each of which carries a defined set of permissions governing which modules, queues, actions, and documents a user can see or act on; users inherit no access beyond what their group grants, so a facilities requester in the Toronto office cannot see invoices coded to the US legal entities. …

Limitations: The depth of entity and department scoping depends on how the buyer configures the organization unit hierarchy during implementation; Basware's professional services team or a consultant must set this up correctly at onboarding for the restrictions to fire as designed. …

Requirement evaluated: Role-based access control with entity and department-level restrictions

For a technology company operating across 4 US offices and a Canadian development center, Stampli delivers role-based access control through two complementary layers. On the procurement side, <cite index="1-4">Stampli sets up user roles and permissions for the right level of access</cite>, with <cite index="1-8,1-10">approval workflows configurable based on numerous factors including department, request amount, and subsidiary.</cite> Stampli documents 11 distinct procurement roles (Requester, Receiver, Request Approver, Procurement Specialist, Procurement Admin, Procurement Approver, Procurement Reviewer, Service Ticket Owner, Budget Admin, Procurement Contributor, and Procurement Analyst), …

Limitations: On the procurement request side, <cite index="1-13">all request types are visible to users by default; visibility restrictions rely primarily on approval workflow routing rather than hard data walls at the request submission stage.</cite> Buyers requiring zero visibility into other departments' request catalogs at the …

Requirement evaluated: Matched invoices push to NetSuite AP for payment processing (or integrate with our AP automation tool)

For a NetSuite-based technology company like yours, Basware's Invoice Matching module connects to NetSuite via native API integration: it pulls PO data directly from NetSuite, performs real-time line-item matching and validation inside Basware, and then auto-posts matched invoices back into NetSuite ready for payment, with no manual AP intervention required. …

Limitations: <cite index="1-9">The live NetSuite-specific Invoice Matching integration is relatively new: the referenced customer case study notes their team "became the first Basware customer to integrate Invoice Matching directly with Oracle NetSuite,"</cite> indicating this connector has limited production history and may requir …

Requirement evaluated: Matched invoices push to NetSuite AP for payment processing (or integrate with our AP automation tool)

For this $250M technology company running NetSuite as its ERP, Stampli operates as a Built-for-NetSuite (BFN)-certified AP automation layer that keeps NetSuite as the system of record throughout. Once an invoice completes Stampli's matching and approval workflow, it moves to the 'Awaiting Payment' queue, and Stampli's native API integration automatically generates a true NetSuite Vendor Bill -- not a journal entry -- within approximately 5 minutes, with a direct hyperlink back to the Stampli invoice record (Stampli Help Center, 'Awaiting Payment'; 'API Integrations: Invoice Data Export'). …

Limitations: Post-export edits to an invoice in either Stampli or NetSuite require manual reconciliation in both systems, since the invoice can only be exported once to prevent duplicates (Stampli Help Center, 'API Integrations: Invoice Data Export'). …

Requirement evaluated: Guided buying: when an employee searches for a product category, surface preferred/contracted vendors and catalog items first

For a $250M technology company trying to eliminate its 35% maverick spend rate, Basware addresses this requirement through Basware Marketplace combined with Basware Purchase, its e-procurement module. When an employee needs to buy something, they enter the Marketplace's consumer-style shopping interface and either search by keyword or browse by category tile. …

Limitations: This capability lives in Basware's e-Procurement modules (Basware Purchase and Basware Marketplace), which are distinct from the AP automation suite that dominates Basware's current market positioning; the buyer must license and implement both the procurement and AP sides of the platform, which adds implementation scop …

Requirement evaluated: Guided buying: when an employee searches for a product category, surface preferred/contracted vendors and catalog items first

For a $250M technology company trying to eliminate 35% maverick spend, Stampli's Procurement module addresses this requirement through a 'Preferred Items' mechanism operating at the purchase request intake stage. Procurement and finance teams build and publish a list of finance-approved items; when an employee opens a purchase request, those preferred items are surfaced for selection before the employee submits a free-text or off-contract request. …

Limitations: The documented mechanism is a curated preferred-items list and AI-suggested recommendations rather than a dynamic category-search experience where an employee types a product category keyword and contracted vendors are ranked and surfaced at the top of search results with negotiated pricing visible at the line level; p …

Requirement evaluated: Automated three-way matching: PO to receipt to invoice with configurable tolerance (2% price, 5% quantity)

For a $250M technology company moving off email/Slack approvals, Basware AP Automation provides genuine three-way matching across all three documents. <cite index="10-9">Purchase orders can be imported for 2-way matching without receipts and for 3-way matching with goods receipts.</cite> The goods receipt leg is ingested via Basware's XML or REST API, which carries row-level quantity, net price, and net sum for each GR line, <cite index="4-1,4-2">and the 'Matching against goods receipts' option configures whether the Order Matching function includes matching against goods receipts; when enabled, the Order Matching function matches purchase invoices to the receipt row of the order.</cite> Tol …

Limitations: The current-platform (Alusta/Neo) tolerance configuration documented in Purchase Invoice Settings applies a single total-level percentage or monetary threshold comparing invoice total to order-row total; independent price-axis (2%) and quantity-axis (5%) …

Requirement evaluated: Automated three-way matching: PO to receipt to invoice with configurable tolerance (2% price, 5% quantity)

For a $250M technology company moving off email/Slack approvals and onto a structured P2P workflow, Stampli delivers full three-way matching across all three document legs: PO, goods receipt, and supplier invoice. When a vendor invoice arrives, Stampli's AI auto-detects that it is PO-backed and automatically performs line-level comparison of header, line, and footer data against the PO and against receipt data. …

Limitations: For this buyer's NetSuite environment, the authoritative item receipt record originates in NetSuite (or through Stampli's receiving notification workflow); a receiving team member must confirm receipt either in NetSuite or via Stampli's receiving module before the three-way match can fire, so the match is only as timel …

Requirement evaluated: Our specific rules: under $1,000 auto-approved against budget, $1,000-$10K department head, $10K-$50K VP, $50K-$100K VP + Finance, over $100K VP + Finance + CFO

For a $250M technology company moving from ad-hoc Slack/email approvals to a structured five-tier spend policy, Basware's procurement workflow engine (Basware P2P / e-Procurement module) delivers the mechanism through configurable 'Workflow Steps' and 'Processing Limits.' Administrators define multi-step approval chains for purchase requisitions and purchase orders, and each workflow step carries a 'Processing Limit' setting that controls the monetary threshold at which a processor's authority is reviewed before the step is considered approved. …

Limitations: The specific dollar-band thresholds (e.g., the $1K auto-approve floor) must be configured during implementation by Basware's professional services team or a trained administrator; self-service threshold editing is not documented as a point-and-click UI feature, which could mean change requests go through a formal chang …

Requirement evaluated: Our specific rules: under $1,000 auto-approved against budget, $1,000-$10K department head, $10K-$50K VP, $50K-$100K VP + Finance, over $100K VP + Finance + CFO

For a $250M technology company replacing ad-hoc Slack/email approvals with enforceable thresholds, Stampli's Predefined Approval Workflows module addresses this requirement at the purchase request stage, before a PO is ever created, which is exactly where the buyer's 35% maverick spend originates. An admin uses the visual workflow builder to configure sequential, multi-level approval stages driven by the request amount field: the builder supports 'spending thresholds and condition-based rules that automatically determine when additional reviewers must be involved' (Stampli Predefined Approval Workflows help article, 2025-11-19). …

Limitations: The workflow builder documentation caps routing conditions at up to 5 configurable fields per workflow; since the buyer's entire hierarchy is driven by a single amount field, this cap is not binding for this requirement, but admins should verify that adding secondary conditions (e.g., department or entity) …

Requirement evaluated: Segregation of duties enforcement: person who enters cannot approve, person who approves cannot process payment

For a 3-person AP team where the same individuals currently enter, approve, and initiate payments, Basware enforces segregation of duties through a combination of role-based access controls and workflow task assignment in its AP Automation platform. Control Objective 10 of Basware's documented AP Automation application controls states that 'logical access into AP Automation system is restricted to authorized personnel only and that the user roles are adequately segregated,' and the platform's approval workflow architecture explicitly requires that 'each invoice must be reviewed and approved by a separate person.' Roles are configured in P2P Administration as distinct permission sets (invoice …

Limitations: The separation between entry and approval is enforced through role configuration rather than a hard-coded self-approval block at the system level, so administrators must ensure that no single user is granted both the processing and approver rights during setup and during any role reassignment. …

Requirement evaluated: Automatic escalation: if approver has not acted within 48 hours, escalate to their manager with notification

For a 3-person AP team currently managing approvals through email chains, Stampli replaces that process with a configurable workflow engine that monitors approver response time and automatically acts when SLAs lapse. Stampli's documented escalation model works in two stages: automated reminders fire first, then, if the approver has still not acted after the configured wait period, <cite index="5-5,5-6">escalation rules reroute the approval to an alternate or the approver's manager after the SLA lapses, with the escalation logged in the audit trail.</cite> This is a genuine reroute of approval authority, not a notification-only nudge: <cite index="7-13">configurable escalation rules can autom …

Limitations: The most detailed escalation configuration documentation available from Stampli's help center describes this mechanism in the context of procurement request workflows; the invoice-specific approval help article (help.stampli.com/en/articles/2992566-approving-invoices) …

Requirement evaluated: Vendor self-service portal: new vendor registration, W-9/W-8 submission, banking detail entry, invoice submission, payment status inquiry

For a multi-location services company replacing email-based vendor management, Basware delivers most of this requirement through two interconnected products: the Basware Supplier Management module (also called Vendor Manager) and the Basware Network Supplier Portal. When your AP team needs to onboard a new vendor, they send an invitation link through Supplier Management; the vendor self-registers with their company details, and once the invitation is sent, only the supplier user can update that data going forward. …

Limitations: The material gap for this buyer is the W-9/W-8 collection mechanism: Basware accepts these documents as configurable PDF uploads in Supplier Management, but there is no purpose-built tax form collection workflow with TIN matching, entity-type routing, or IRS validation, meaning your AP team retains the burden of review …

Requirement evaluated: 1099 preparation: automated classification, threshold tracking, and electronic filing

For a multi-location services company on Sage Intacct, Stampli's 1099 support operates as a data synchronization layer rather than a self-contained compliance engine. On the classification side, Stampli imports each vendor's 1099 status from the Intacct vendor master and surfaces that flag at the invoice line level during processing, allowing AP to confirm or override the 1099 designation per line before export. As Stampli's Sage Intacct integration page states, 'the system imports each vendor's 1099 status, then exports the same flags back to Intacct,' keeping year-end 1099 data in Intacct accurate. …

Limitations: Two of the three components the buyer requires are not delivered by Stampli itself: cumulative payment threshold tracking (the running $600 IRS limit per vendor) lives in Intacct's vendor master, not in Stampli, so any payments recorded outside Intacct's direct view risk creating gaps in the 1099 total; and electronic …

Requirement evaluated: Non-PO invoice routing: automatic GL coding suggestions based on vendor history and invoice description

For a services company processing roughly 810 non-PO invoices per month (45% of 1,800) covering utilities, professional services, subscriptions, and insurance, Basware addresses this requirement through its SmartCoding module, a purpose-built ML-based feature within its AP Automation solution. When a non-PO invoice arrives, SmartCoding analyzes the supplier's historical coding patterns alongside multiple invoice dimensions (vendor name, invoice description, reference person, and other header attributes) and generates GL coding proposals automatically, presenting a ranked list of suggestions to the reviewer without requiring AP staff to look up or manually key codes. …

Limitations: SmartCoding's accuracy at go-live depends on the volume and consistency of historical coding data available to train the model; a buyer with no prior AP automation history in Basware will need a ramp period before proposals reach high confidence levels. …

Requirement evaluated: Per-vendor duplicate sensitivity configuration for vendors that legitimately reuse invoice numbers (e.g., recurring rent or utility billing)

For a services company processing recurring vendor invoices from landlords, utilities, and subscription providers who legitimately reuse invoice numbers, Stampli's Billy the Bot runs a three-stage duplicate detection process. At the registration stage, Billy separates flags into two categories: 'actual duplicates' (invoice number + vendor name + invoice year/date all match, which triggers a hard warning requiring cancellation or editing to proceed) and 'potential duplicates' (any other combination of three matching fields). …

Limitations: The per-vendor disable setting covers only the 'potential duplicate' warning tier; the 'actual duplicate' hard flag (triggered by an exact match of invoice number, vendor name, and invoice year) …

Requirement evaluated: Export to Excel and scheduled report delivery to Controller and CFO

For a 3-person AP team at a $120M multi-location company running two Sage Intacct entities, Basware covers this requirement across two layers of its own platform. In the core AP product, invoice list data and coding rows are exported directly in .xlsx format, and accrual reports generate an email notification to named recipients with an Excel download link and no row-count cap, meaning your Controller and CFO can receive the file without manually pulling it. The Basware Reporting tool adds a self-service layer where reports can be generated, downloaded, scheduled, and shared without raising a support request. The separately licensed Basware Analytics (also marketed as Basware Insights) …

Limitations: Scheduled dashboard delivery and CFO-level KPI views require the Basware Analytics or Basware Insights add-on, which carries a separate license fee beyond the base AP automation subscription; confirm whether this module is included in the proposed contract scope. …

Requirement evaluated: Export to Excel and scheduled report delivery to Controller and CFO

For a 3-person AP team at a $120M multi-location company needing to get data into the Controller's and CFO's hands, Stampli covers one of the two components of this requirement cleanly and leaves the other unresolved. On the export side, Stampli's Reports module offers an on-demand download button that produces either a CSV or XLSX file from any invoice report, including fully customized views with user-selected columns, date ranges, and advanced filters; the accrual report help article (Source 1) explicitly instructs users to 'Export the Report as an XLSX and open it in Excel,' and the Reports help article (Source 3, updated February 2026) …

Limitations: The Controller and CFO will not receive AP reports automatically in their inbox on a recurring schedule; someone on the AP team must manually run the report, export the XLSX, and email it, which introduces a manual step the buyer is specifically trying to eliminate. …

Requirement evaluated: Supplier performance scorecards: on-time delivery rate, quality issues, invoice accuracy, responsiveness

For a $250M technology company moving off email-based purchasing, Basware's native scorecard coverage is strongest on the invoice accuracy dimension and weakest on the other three. Basware Insights (the analytics module) tracks AP-side KPIs including invoice processing times, approval cycle times, exception rates, and early payment discount capture, all derived from its invoice matching and PO processing engine. A third-party Basware reseller partner documents that Basware Analytics also surfaces supplier-level lead time, order fulfillment, and delivery quality data drawn from P2P transaction flows. …

Limitations: For this buyer's four required scorecard dimensions, only invoice accuracy has a clearly documented native mechanism in Basware's AP matching and analytics layer. On-time delivery (requiring goods receipt vs. …

Requirement evaluated: Contract repository: store agreements, track renewal dates, alert stakeholders 90/60/30 days before expiration

For a $250M technology company managing 800+ vendors and concerned about contract visibility, Stampli's Advanced Vendor Management (AVM) add-on module provides a centralized document repository where contracts, W-9s, licenses, and insurance documents can be stored per vendor profile, with expiration dates set on each document. The system sends automated expiration notifications to both AP teams and vendors when documents are approaching their expiration dates, and can block invoice or payment processing for non-compliant vendors. …

Limitations: No documented evidence confirms that Stampli supports configurable multi-interval renewal alerts (e.g., 90, 60, and 30 days before expiration) directed at named internal stakeholders; the platform's expiration tracking appears oriented toward triggering vendor re-upload reminders and AP compliance blocks rather than de …

Requirement evaluated: PO status tracking: from approved through acknowledged, received, invoiced, and closed

For a $250M technology company moving off manual email-and-Slack approvals, Basware covers the full PO lifecycle across three integrated layers. In the Basware Procurement (P2P) module, a requisition moves through approval and becomes a PO that is sent electronically to the supplier; the developer API confirms that 'it allows users to approve the purchase requisition, sends created order(s) …

Limitations: The supplier acknowledgment flow requires suppliers to be onboarded to Basware Network and the Invoice Key-In and PO Flip service; suppliers who do not adopt the portal will not generate a structured 'Accepted' status, leaving the acknowledged stage as a manual or email-based signal for that subset. …

Requirement evaluated: PO change order workflow: amendments require re-approval if they exceed original amount by more than 10% or $5,000

For this $250M technology company, the key question is whether Stampli can automatically detect that an already-approved PO has been amended, compute the delta from the original approved amount, and re-route that PO through an approval chain when the delta exceeds 10% or $5,000 (whichever comes first). Stampli's documented approval engine handles initial PO request routing with configurable dollar thresholds and condition-based rules: it can assign approvers based on amount, department, vendor, and other criteria, and it supports multi-level escalation. …

Limitations: No documented evidence was found of a Stampli mechanism that fires on PO amendment, computes the delta from the originally approved PO amount, and enforces re-approval when the delta exceeds either 10% or $5,000; without this specific change-order re-approval trigger, the buyer would need to rely on manual process disc …

Requirement evaluated: Savings tracking: show negotiated savings vs. list price, contract compliance rate, and consolidation opportunities

Your company's challenge of 35% maverick spend and 800+ active vendors maps partially onto what Basware's Analytics module and e-Procurement platform deliver. Basware Analytics, available as a packaged add-on to the P2P suite, provides standard dashboards and KPIs that surface maverick spending by category, supplier, and department, and explicitly supports efforts to 'consolidate spending and right-size your supply base.' At the point of purchase, the Basware Marketplace enforces negotiated catalog pricing and guides buyers to preferred suppliers, which captures compliance in real time rather than reporting it retrospectively. …

Limitations: The three specific metrics the buyer named: negotiated savings vs. list price (requires a stored list-price reference and a savings computation engine), contract compliance rate as a percentage KPI, and algorithmically surfaced consolidation opportunities, are not all documented as native Basware mechanisms; deeper con …

Requirement evaluated: Tail spend analysis: identify high-transaction-count, low-dollar vendors for consolidation

For a $250M technology company with 800+ active vendors and 35% maverick spend, Stampli addresses this requirement through Stampli Deep Finance, a separately positioned AI-driven analysis module launched in March 2026. <cite index="22-2,22-3">Finance leaders can request a deep dive into tail spend specifically, and the product supports custom requests with guided clarifications so each analysis is tailored to the question being asked.</cite> <cite index="15-3,15-4,15-5">Stampli's position is that spend analysis is only as credible as the transaction data underneath it; because Stampli AI codes, matches, and routes invoices inside ERP-aligned workflows, the invoice data is structured and vali …

Limitations: Coverage is limited to spend flowing through Stampli's AP invoice and procurement workflows: vendors that exist entirely in the buyer's current 35% maverick spend population (no PO, no Stampli invoice) will be absent from any Deep Finance analysis until those transactions are brought into the platform. …

Requirement evaluated: Touchless processing target: 40%+ of PO invoices should require zero manual intervention from capture through posting

For a services company processing approximately 990 PO-based invoices per month (55% of 1,800), Basware's end-to-end touchless chain for PO invoices works as follows. First, SmartPDF ingests emailed PDF invoices from a single dedicated inbox, applies AI-based line-item and header extraction, and converts the PDF into a structured e-invoice with over 97% field accuracy; with the self-validation feature active, Basware documents that on average 92%+ of PDF invoices are processed automatically through capture with no manual correction needed. Second, the InvoiceAI suite (SmartPDF, SmartMatching, and the AP Matching Agent) …

Limitations: Achieving touchless processing on the 3-way-match portion of PO invoices (facilities, supplies, subcontractors) requires goods receipt confirmations to flow from Sage Intacct or the receiving workflow into Basware in real time; if GR records are entered late or inconsistently by warehouse or project staff, those invoic …

Requirement evaluated: Automatic extraction of: vendor name, invoice number, date, PO number, line items, amounts, tax, and payment terms

For a 3-person AP team currently keying 1,800 invoices per month from email and mail into Sage Intacct manually, Stampli's AI (Stampli AI, previously branded as Billy the Bot) takes over at the point of invoice receipt. Invoices arrive via email to a dedicated Stampli inbox or are uploaded directly; the AI then immediately extracts header and line-level fields without human intervention. Stampli's own product documentation confirms the extracted fields include vendor name, invoice number, PO number, line items, product descriptions, prices, credit/payment terms, and taxes, using a combination of OCR, machine learning, and natural language processing. …

Limitations: Line-item extraction accuracy on varied or lower-quality invoice formats (scanned paper, non-standard layouts from subcontractors or facilities vendors) improves over time as the system learns vendor-specific patterns; a third-party analysis notes that Stampli uses historical invoice data from specific vendors to impro …