AP Automation Savings Calculator
Adjust the sliders to match your accounts payable process and see how much your business could save each year by automating invoice processing with PaperLess.
All amounts you enter and all savings shown will use this currency.
500
Include supplier invoices across all entities and sites.
10 min
From receiving the invoice to posting it in Sage, Xero or SAP — including data entry, coding, matching and chasing approvals.
£22
Salary plus employer costs for the people handling AP. Typical finance administration rates fall between 18 and 28 per hour in most markets.
4%
Duplicates, keying errors, wrong nominal codes, missing approvals. Industry studies put manual AP error rates between 1% and 4%.
10 hrs
Archiving invoices, plus digging them out again for supplier queries, approvals and audits. With PaperLess, documents are archived automatically and retrieved in one click from the transaction in your accounting software.
Your estimated savings
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estimated saving per year with PaperLess
Hours freed up each month
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Cost per invoice today
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Cost per invoice with PaperLess
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Rework avoided each year
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Filing & retrieval saved each year
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Manual processing
With PaperLess automation
Estimates are indicative and based on an assumed 80% reduction in invoice processing time, reduction of rework to 0.5% of invoices, and a 90% reduction in time spent filing and retrieving invoices, in line with results typically reported across 1,000+ PaperLess implementations. Actual savings depend on your current process, invoice mix and approval workflows. Figures exclude PaperLess subscription costs; your account manager can provide a full ROI comparison including licensing.
