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Invoice entry: 12.5 hours back weekly
A growing Sydney business had an accounts team that typed supplier invoices by hand. Invoices, purchase orders, and credit notes arrived by email. An automation now watches the inbox and reads each PDF or image. It pulls out the supplier name, tax number, invoice number, date, line items, quantities, prices, tax, and totals. It maps each field to the accounting system and learns each supplier's codes. Staff then review the filled invoice and approve it in one click.
How it wentThe vendor reports 20 to 30 invoices a day. Entry fell from 5 to 7 minutes per invoice to under 30 seconds. That removed 12.5 hours a week, saved over $26,000 a year in labour, and cut the error rate by over 95%. It paid for itself within the first two months. The client is unnamed, and the figures are the vendor's.
Try it · based on the source's workflow
Process supplier invoices for [business name]. Watch [inbox] for invoices, purchase orders, and credit notes. Extract the supplier, invoice number, date, line items, quantities, prices, tax, and total from each file, and draft the entry in [accounting system] with the right supplier and account codes from [code list]. Never guess a field you cannot read: flag it. Show me every drafted invoice for a one-click approval before it is saved or paid.
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Invoice entry: 12.5 hours back weekly — from The SmallOffice Brief, a daily brief of real AI cases for small businesses: https://smalloffice.space/case-invoice-entry-12-5-hours-back-weekly