Invoice Scanning Benefits: Automating Your AP
The Benefits of Digital AP Automation
In my previous post, we discussed the pain of paper invoice processing, and all the key cost areas that are affected by physical workflows in AP. (Previous post: True Pain of Paper-based AP Workflow ). In this post, let’s discus the all the benefits of digital invoice processing and AP Document Automation. Below is a survey of accounting and finance professionals, and what they specific as key benefits of a digital invoice processing workflow (Survey data by Paystream Advisors).
Top Benefits of Invoice Scanning
As you can see, there are numerous benefits from capturing invoices through a scanning process. All of the benefits contribute in some way to cost reduction, both in hard and soft costs.
Along with these surveyed benefits, there is also quite a bit of value in time savings, as outlined below:
Paper – the average time to file a paper invoice in a standard file cabinet system is approximately 5 minutes. This is just the actual time to file, and not other additional costs including copying, keying, etc. Based on avaerage labor rates, this comes to $1.67 for each invoice you process.
Scanning Invoices – the average time to file is 30s to 90s depending on the level of automation and scanning device that is utilized. Jut in pure time, this equates to $0.50.
So, if you just look at pure filing time, you are looking at cutting your time based costs by 2/3.
Hopefully this has presented a compelling reason to move to a digital workflow when it comes to your Account Payable process. As you can see, even a small business can benefit substantially from a scanning process, improving efficiency and making employees more productive. You can watch a quick video of our AP Solutions here:
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