Creditors Clerk

Processes your supplier invoices end to end — captures, codes, matches and queues them for payment. You approve the exceptions.

Accounts payable 48 systems From R8 500 / month Up to 500 invoices a month included

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What the Creditors Clerk actually does

The whole job, in the order it happens — not a feature list.

1

Collects the invoices

Watches the creditors mailbox, the Dext inbox and the scan folder. Pulls PDFs, photographs and e-mailed attachments as they arrive, de-duplicates them against what is already in the ledger, and files the original against the supplier.

2

Reads every line

Extracts supplier, invoice number, date, VAT number, line items and totals. Two OCR engines read each document — the cloud one and the engine on your own machine — and where they disagree, the invoice comes to you instead of going into the ledger.

3

Codes it

Applies the GL account, cost centre, project and VAT treatment from that supplier's own coding history. A supplier coded the same way forty times is not a question worth asking you. A new one is.

4

Matches it

Three-way matches the invoice to the purchase order and the goods-received note. Quantity and price variances outside the tolerance you set stop the invoice and open an exception rather than posting a difference nobody sees.

5

Posts it

Writes the invoice into Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, Zoho Books, SYSPRO or desktop Pastel — through the API where there is one, and through the application's own screens where there is not.

6

Pays it

Builds the payment batch against your terms and early-settlement discounts, loads it to the bank for a human to release, and sends each supplier a remittance advice once the payment clears.

What it brings to you

It works the invoices it is certain about and stops on the ones it is not. Every exception arrives with the document, what it read and what it proposes to post, side by side.

  • A supplier it has never seen before
  • An invoice above the value you set
  • A price or quantity variance against the purchase order
  • A duplicate invoice number from the same supplier
  • Anything the two OCR engines read differently
  • A VAT number that fails validation
  • A bank account that differs from the one on file for that supplier

What it puts on your dashboard

A digital worker you cannot measure is one you cannot trust. Every run is logged, and the numbers below are reported without being asked for.

  • Invoices processed, and the hours that would have taken a person
  • Straight-through rate — how many needed no human at all
  • Exceptions by reason, so you can see which supplier keeps costing you time
  • Duplicate invoices caught before payment went out
  • Early-settlement discounts captured, and the ones missed
  • Average time from an invoice arriving to it being posted

The systems it works in

48 pre-built connections, ready on day one. Where a system publishes an API, the digital worker uses it directly from the cloud.

Ledgers and ERP

Document capture

Where invoices arrive

Procurement and expenses

Banks and payment

Approval and sign-off

And the systems with no API at all

Desktop Sage Pastel, SYSPRO and supplier portals with no API — driven through the application's own screens by the bot on your machine.

This is the part a cloud-only tool cannot do. The Automize bot runs on your own machine, so anything a person can open, it can work in — the desktop accounting package, the bank portal, the supplier site with no integration.

Where it runs, and what never leaves

On your machine

The bot is installed where the work happens, so it can reach the systems that never got an API.

Credentials stay put

Passwords live in your operating system's own keychain and never sync to us. We hold the steps, not the secrets.

POPIA and GDPR by design

Client financial data is processed locally. Servers are in AWS Ireland and hold process definitions and execution logs.

Every step audited

Step-by-step logs, screenshots and timestamps for every run — and a record of who approved what.

Questions about the Creditors Clerk

No. It builds the payment batch and loads it to the bank, but releasing it stays with whoever holds that authority today. No money leaves your account without a person.
It stops and asks. The invoice waits in the Action Center with the original document, what the digital worker read, and what it proposes to post shown side by side. You accept, correct or reject it in one click and the run carries on from where it paused.
Yes. Where a system has no API, the Automize bot drives the application's own screens on your machine, the same way a person would. That is exactly why the bot is installed locally instead of running from the cloud — a cloud-only tool cannot reach desktop Pastel or SYSPRO at all.
On your machine. Automize stores the process definition in the cloud — the steps the digital worker follows — while documents, credentials and client data stay on the machine the bot runs on. That is the architecture, not a setting.

Works well alongside

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Put a Creditors Clerk to work in 7 days

A creditors clerk costs R20 000 – R28 000 a month, fully loaded. An offshore one costs $1 200 – $2 500 and still needs managing.