Invoice IQAI accounts payable for small businesses

    Turn supplier invoices into approved bills automatically.

    Upload or forward an invoice. Invoice IQ extracts the details, routes it for approval, keeps the audit trail and prepares it for your accounting workflow.

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    Invoice IQ
    AP run · September

    Approved & ready to pay

    $0.50

    12 invoicesacross 4 departments

    Fits how your finance team already works

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    The whole platform, in one look

    Invoices, approvals, purchase orders, payments and billing. One platform.

    Supplier invoices are read on arrival, matched to their purchase orders, approved by the right people and paid in controlled runs, while your own sales invoices go out from the same place. Every step is on one record, on the web or on a phone.

    Search bills, suppliers, POs
    AP

    Invoices / INV-3466

    TAX INVOICE

    Bill to: Your Company Ltd

    NORTHWIND SUPPLIES

    Invoice INV-3466 · 21 Oct

    Reference PO-2101

    DescriptionQtyPriceAmount
    Steel brackets10100.001,000.00
    Hex bolts M85001.20600.00
    Freight185.0085.00

    Subtotal1,685.00

    Tax 10%168.50

    Total USD1,853.50

    Reading the invoice

    • SupplierNorthwind Supplies
    • Invoice numberINV-3466
    • PO referencePO-2101
    • Line items3 read
    • Total$1,853.50
    Supplier matchedNo duplicateRisk: low
    Matches PO-2101
    Ready for review · in the AP clerk’s queue
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    Keystrokes to enter an invoice

    Header and every line item read for you

    4

    Approval stages available

    AP clerk through to treasury release

    2

    Places to do the work

    Web and mobile, on the same data

    100%

    Of actions recorded

    Who did what, when, and why

    How to automate invoice processing

    From arrival to proof, in five steps.

    A single continuous process removes the manual handoffs between capture, approval and payment, and leaves a record at every step.

    Multi-source ingestionStep 1 of 5

    Capture: Multi-channel arrival without friction

    Upload a digital PDF, drag in a batch of files, photograph a paper invoice from your phone, or connect your Gmail inbox and let invoice attachments arrive on their own. Captures taken offline queue up and sync when a connection returns.

    • Drag and drop single or bulk PDF invoices
    • Mobile camera capture with offline queueing
    • Gmail inbox: invoice attachments collected automatically
    • One central inbox with duplicate checks on arrival
    In this stepCapture

    Accepted sources

    PDF, scan, photo, email

    Duplicate check
    On upload
    Offline capture
    Queued & synced

    Capabilities

    What your team gets.

    Everything below is in the product today. It is built around the reality of a finance team: move faster without giving up the controls.

    End-to-end invoice handling

    • Header and line-item reading, no templates
    • Arrives by upload, phone camera or your Gmail inbox
    • Duplicate flagged on every upload
    • Confirm against the original, side by side

    Four-stage approval chain

    • AP clerk, department manager, finance manager, treasurer
    • Approval requirements rise with invoice value
    • Remarks required on every action
    • Reminders and visible wait times

    Purchase orders and 3-way matching

    • Raise and approve POs, send them to suppliers, or import them from Xero
    • Goods received recorded against each PO line
    • Every bill matched to its PO and what was received, line by line
    • Supplier credit notes applied to bills, item by item
    • Bigger issues held for the treasurer’s PO review

    Department cost centres

    • Separate budgets and approval limits
    • Budget checked at the moment of approval
    • Own manager queue per department
    • Spend visible across all departments

    Roles built for finance

    • AP clerk, department manager, finance manager
    • Treasurer, plus company admin for setup
    • The person who enters cannot release payment
    • Lite and Enterprise role sets

    Web and mobile, one record

    • Swipe to approve on Android
    • Act on several invoices at once
    • Camera capture with offline queueing
    • Biometric unlock on the phone

    Payment runs and treasury

    • Group approved invoices into scheduled runs
    • Treasury release as a separate step
    • Partial payments with balance tracked
    • Payment history per supplier

    Audit trail and reporting

    • Every action with user, timestamp and remark
    • Append-only; nothing edited away
    • Export to Excel or a PDF evidence pack
    • Full history behind any single invoice

    Invoice IQ Assistant

    • Plain-language questions on your own data
    • What is waiting, what is due, what was paid
    • Answers scoped to your tenant only

    Ask us what the assistant covers on your data before you commit.

    New: Billing and sales invoicing

    Send invoices to your customers, too.

    Invoice IQ now handles both sides of the ledger. Alongside the supplier invoices you pay, Billing creates, approves and sends the sales invoices you are owed, on both Lite and Enterprise.

    • Your own invoice numbering and tax rates, for any country
    • Optional approval before an invoice goes out: always, above an amount, or off
    • Emailed with the PDF attached and a secure link to view and download it
    • Payments recorded as they arrive, including part payments
    • Synced to Xero both ways: invoices, credit notes and payments, in your company’s currency

    Your company admin turns Billing on in Billing Settings.

    Search bills, suppliers, POs
    AP

    Billing / INV-1042

    Sales invoice INV-1042

    To: Contoso Retail · Net 14

    Approved

    Consulting, 10 h × 120.001,200.00

    Implementation800.00

    Subtotal2,000.00

    Tax 10%200.00

    Total USD2,200.00

    1. Approved before it goes out
    2. Emailed with the PDF and a secure link
    3. Synced to Xero
    4. Part payment of $1,000.00 recorded · $1,200.00 due

    At a glance

    The foundations underneath the day-to-day work.

    Automatic extraction

    Every field and line item read on arrival, with no template per supplier, and re-readable at any time.

    Accounting integration

    Approved invoices go through to your ledger as ready-to-pay bills, so nobody enters them a second time.

    Ask your own data

    Put plain-language questions to the assistant about your own invoices and payments, inside your own tenant.

    Secure by default

    Sign in with your existing work account, unlock the app with biometrics, and keep your data in an isolated tenant.

    Compared with how AP runs today

    What changes when the process is the product.

    Most finance teams run payables on email and spreadsheets, or on an OCR tool bolted to them. This is what each one leaves you doing by hand.

    • Getting invoice data in

      Email & spreadsheets
      Not covered:Typed by hand from the PDF
      Basic OCR tool
      Partly covered:Header only; a template per supplier
      Invoice IQ
      Covered:Header and every line, no templates
    • Where approvals live

      Email & spreadsheets
      Not covered:Email threads and forwarded PDFs
      Basic OCR tool
      Partly covered:A link in an email
      Invoice IQ
      Covered:A routed queue on web and mobile
    • Escalation by invoice value

      Email & spreadsheets
      Not covered:Someone has to remember the policy
      Basic OCR tool
      Not covered:Not covered
      Invoice IQ
      Covered:Automatic, by value band
    • Duplicate invoices

      Email & spreadsheets
      Not covered:Caught at reconciliation, if at all
      Basic OCR tool
      Partly covered:Sometimes, on invoice number
      Invoice IQ
      Covered:Flagged on every upload
    • Paying suppliers

      Email & spreadsheets
      Partly covered:A spreadsheet of what is due
      Basic OCR tool
      Not covered:Not covered
      Invoice IQ
      Covered:Scheduled batches, treasury release
    • Answering the auditor

      Email & spreadsheets
      Not covered:Reconstructed from inboxes
      Basic OCR tool
      Partly covered:Extraction log only
      Invoice IQ
      Covered:Every action, exportable
    • Getting it into the ledger

      Email & spreadsheets
      Not covered:Re-keyed into accounting
      Basic OCR tool
      Partly covered:CSV export, then re-keyed
      Invoice IQ
      Covered:Pushed straight through as bills

    Illustrative outcomes

    What a typical AP team sees.

    Three things finance teams notice first. These are illustrative examples of how the platform changes the work, not customer quotes.

    Approvals stop living in an inbox.

    Invoices arrive in a queue instead of an email thread, so the approver knows what is waiting on them and how long it has been there. Nothing has to be chased twice.

    The clerk checks the invoice instead of typing it.

    Supplier, dates, taxes and every line item come in already read. The work becomes confirming what was extracted, which takes seconds per invoice rather than minutes.

    Segregation of duties without slowing anyone down.

    The approval matrix separates who enters an invoice, who approves it and who releases the payment, and the trail is already there when the auditors ask.

    Value estimator

    Estimate what the manual work is costing you.

    Move the sliders to match how your team works today. The estimate assumes automation removes most of the typing and chasing, not all of it.

    Your operation today

    Three inputs, no contact details needed.

    600 invoices
    502,5005,000
    16 minutes
    5 min15 min30 min
    $35 / hour
    $20$50$80

    Estimated impact

    Staff cost recovered per year

    $53,760

    Hours given back each month
    128 hrsabout 16 working days
    Manual hours today
    160 hrs / month

    An estimate only, based on removing 80% of manual handling time. Your own figures will depend on invoice mix and approval structure.

    FAQ

    Frequently asked questions about Invoice IQ

    Clear answers on how the platform works, what it connects to, and where the controls sit.

    Invoice IQ is accounts payable (AP) automation software for small and growing businesses, made by AlgoTech Systems. It reads supplier invoices automatically, routes each one through your approval policy, groups approved invoices into payment runs and keeps a permanent audit trail, on the web and on Android. With Billing turned on, it also sends sales invoices to your own customers.

    AP automation covers the whole invoice lifecycle, from the document arriving to the entry landing in your ledger. Older systems still expect someone to type the invoice in, or to maintain a template per supplier. Invoice IQ reads the header and every line item itself, routes the invoice through your approval policy, and groups approved invoices into payment runs.

    Send every supplier invoice to one place, let software read it, check it against the purchase order and what was received, route it to the right approver, and pay approved invoices in batches. With Invoice IQ that is five steps: invoices arrive by upload, phone camera or a connected Gmail inbox; the header and line items are read with no typing and no per-supplier templates; duplicates and mismatches are flagged; your approval chain signs off; and approved invoices go into a payment run and to Xero, with every step in the audit trail.

    AI invoice processing software reads a supplier invoice the way a person would, from a PDF or a photo, and turns it into data: supplier, invoice number, dates, line items, tax and total, with no template set up per supplier. Invoice IQ then checks that data against your purchase orders, flags possible duplicates and risks, and sends the invoice through approval, so your team reviews exceptions instead of typing invoices in.

    Invoice IQ is for finance teams that process supplier invoices and want to stop typing them in. AlgoTech Lite suits lean teams that need invoices read, reviewed and paid with very little setup; the Enterprise Suite suits multi-department organisations that need cost centres, a four-stage approval chain and treasury release as a separate step.

    During the early-bird launch offer, AlgoTech Lite is USD 5 and the Enterprise Suite is USD 10 for the first 3 months. The pricing page compares both editions capability by capability, and you can request a quote for the Enterprise Suite.

    Invoice IQ reads PDF, PNG and JPG invoices: digital PDFs, scanned paper and photographs taken on a phone. It does not need a pre-configured template per supplier. Each extracted field carries a confidence score, and your team confirms the values side by side with the original document before the invoice moves on. Any invoice can be re-read at any time.

    Every upload is checked against your existing invoices for a matching supplier, invoice number, date and amount, and a likely duplicate is flagged before it enters the approval queue. Risk checks look for warning signs such as changed bank details, and a high-risk invoice is held until someone reviews it. The approval matrix adds a further layer: the clerk who enters an invoice cannot also release the payment, and treasury release is a separate, recorded step.

    Yes, on the Enterprise Suite. Your invoice approval workflow follows value bands you set, which decide who has to approve: lower-value invoices can stop at the department manager, while larger amounts escalate automatically to the finance manager before treasury sees them.

    Approvers get their queue in the Invoice IQ Android app. They can open the original document, check the extracted line items, and approve or reject with a remark, which is required. Approvals made on mobile are the same actions as on the web and land in the same audit trail.

    Yes, Invoice IQ integrates with Xero on both editions. An approved supplier invoice becomes a Xero bill with its supplier, line items, tax and due date already filled in, and the payment is recorded against it when you pay, so nobody re-keys anything. Approved purchase orders can be imported from Xero to match your bills against, and Billing syncs your sales invoices, credit notes and payments with Xero. Run a different ERP or accounting system? Where it supports integration, we can connect Invoice IQ to it on request and agree what it covers and when before you commit.

    Yes. Your company admin connects your Gmail inbox once, with read-only access. Every few minutes, invoice attachments (PDF, PNG and JPG, up to 10 MB) are collected into an attachments queue, where your AP team chooses which to process and which to dismiss. Nothing is read or posted until someone confirms it.

    Yes. Raise and approve purchase orders in Invoice IQ, or import them from Xero, and every supplier invoice is matched to its PO by the PO number and the supplier. Each line is checked for price, quantity and what is left on the PO, along with dates and tax, within a tolerance you set. Bills still in approval count against the PO, so it cannot be spent twice, and the amount is committed when the treasurer approves.

    It is held before it can be approved or paid, with the reason shown on the invoice. The AP clerk can fix the PO link, or accept a small difference such as a price change with a written reason, up to a limit your company sets. Larger overruns, lines that are on no PO and a missing PO go to the PO review list, where a treasurer or department manager accepts or overrides them. Every decision is recorded in the audit trail.

    Yes. 3-way matching checks a supplier invoice against two things: the purchase order (what you ordered, at what price) and the goods received note (what actually arrived). Invoice IQ records goods received against each PO line, including returns and damaged items, and can hold a bill that charges for more than was received until the goods arrive or the difference is accepted.

    Yes. An approved purchase order is emailed to the supplier as a PDF from your own PO template, with a link where the supplier accepts it, proposes another delivery date or declines. A change to a sent PO is approved again and resent as a revised PO, and you are reminded when a supplier has not answered or a delivery is late. POs raised in Invoice IQ are also created in Xero with the same number.

    A supplier credit note is read like an invoice, approved by the AP clerk and applied to that supplier’s bills, as an amount or item by item with quantities. The bill’s amount left to pay drops, the purchase order gets that amount back, and the credit note and its allocation are sent to Xero. Credit you do not use stays with the supplier for a later bill, or is recorded as refunded.

    Yes. Purchase orders start in shadow mode: every invoice is matched and the result is shown, but nothing is held or rerouted. When the results look right, your company admin switches to enforcing, and from then on a bill that does not match waits until the difference is resolved.

    Yes. Billing is invoicing software for small businesses, built in on both editions: it lets you create sales invoices for your customers with your own numbering and tax rates, approve them before they go out if you choose, and email them with a PDF attached and a secure link where the customer can view and download the invoice. Invoices, credit notes and payments sync with Xero. Your company admin turns Billing on in Billing Settings.

    Each sales invoice shows its status as it moves along: Sent, Viewed once your customer opens the link, then Part paid and Paid as a treasurer records payments. The invoice list totals what is outstanding and overdue, and credit notes reduce an invoice when you need to correct it.

    Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and each customer is held in an isolated tenant. Users sign in with their existing work account, the mobile app can be unlocked with biometrics, and every action is recorded in a permanent, append-only audit trail.

    Lite suits a lean finance team that wants invoices read automatically, a straightforward review queue and batch payment runs, with very little setup. The Enterprise Suite adds department cost centres, the full four-stage approval chain with your own thresholds, and treasury release as a separate step.

    Ready to see it on your own invoices?

    Request a demo and we will run your actual supplier invoices through the platform while you watch.

    info@algotechsys.com