Using eInvoicing as a stepping stone to end-to-end finance automation

When businesses start looking at eInvoicing, they often focus on the immediate wins: fewer errors, faster processing and less chasing. And they’re all great reasons to get started. But there’s a bigger opportunity too. eInvoicing sets you up for something much more powerful: end-to-end finance automation.

If your business is thinking about modernising processes or reducing the manual work your team does every day, eInvoicing is the perfect place to begin.

What eInvoicing gives you right away

eInvoicing fixes some of the most painful parts of handling invoices. It helps you:

• cut out manual data entry
• avoid mismatched or incomplete invoice details
• reduce duplicate payments
• move invoices through approvals much quicker

eInvoicing can help you:

• issue customer eInvoices automatically
• speed up payment times
• improve cash flow forecasting
• reduce manual reconciliations.

But the real magic isn’t just the faster processing, it’s the structured data you get from Peppol eInvoices. That’s what unlocks everything else.

Why structured data matters

eInvoicing isn’t just about reducing manual processing and costs. It allows you to get clean, consistent data to work with. With structured data, you can start doing things like:

• matching invoices to purchase orders automatically
• setting up approvals based on rules instead of manual checks
• building dashboards that show spend in real time
• linking invoices straight through to payment and reconciliation

It’s the difference between reacting to problems and preventing them in the first place.

What eInvoicing makes possible next

Once eInvoicing is in place, you can continue to take your finance automation further. These can be big or small, it depends on your business and where you want to go. Our Gateway solutions can take your business process automation further.

Procure-to-pay automation

You can start automating your whole procurement process including:

• creating and sending purchase orders to suppliers
• sending order confirmations and delivery information to buyers
• payment reminders
• matching invoice information against order information
• invoice payment approval processes
• payment runs