With rising invoice volumes and tighter teams, AP automation is gaining ground. But convincing leadership to switch from semi-manual systems to something smarter isn’t always easy. We’ve been piloting Collatio Accounts Payable, and it’s been helpful in flagging mismatches, streamlining...

We’re getting invoices in every possible format - PDFs, Word docs, even photos of paper invoices. Some are structured, others are all over the place. Matching them to POs and routing for approvals eats up a lot of time, especially when vendor formats vary so much. We’ve been trying out Collatio...

We’ve hit a point where spreadsheet-based reconciliation is slowing us down. Between subledger mismatches, vendor statements, and bank data coming in different formats, it’s easy to miss something or spend hours cross-checking. Last quarter we had to backtrack on a payment that didn’t get...

Invoices came in through email, sometimes as attachments, sometimes embedded, often missing key info. Then the back-and-forth would begin, checking POs, asking vendors for corrections, looping in approvers who’d missed the email. It added friction to what should have been a straightforward...

We used to funnel all vendor invoices into a shared mail folder and then copy them into a spreadsheet that was never quite accurate. Between vendors sending different formats and approvals via email chains, it felt like half my day was chasing people for missing line items or approval replies...