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AI Employee · Invoice Processing

Hire your AI invoice clerk.

It captures every incoming invoice, matches it against order and delivery note, and routes approvals by your rules. 75% of incoming invoices clear without manual work, and the first workflows run productively within 2 weeks. Your team only decides the exceptions.

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A Day at Work

What does your AI invoice clerk get done in a normal working day?

07:30

Invoice intake

Collects new invoices from the shared Outlook mailbox, the scan folder, and supplier portals, and extracts every field, including tax rates and payment terms.

09:00

Order matching

Runs the two- or three-way match against purchase orders and delivery notes and flags every quantity or price deviation with the exact difference.

11:00

Discount deadlines

Checks which invoices are approaching an early-payment discount deadline and moves those to the front of the approval queue.

14:00

Approval routing

Sends each invoice to the right approver: by cost center, amount threshold, and your four-eyes rules, with the matching result attached.

16:00

Archiving and handover

Files approved invoices audit-proof in the DMS, links them to the order, and prepares the batch for posting and payment.

17:00

Daily summary

Posts a short summary: what was cleared, what is blocked and why, which deadlines are at risk tomorrow.

In Practice

What happens to an invoice between arrival and approval?

Goal

No invoice sits unchecked, no discount deadline passes unnoticed

  • Invoices captured and matched the moment they arrive
  • Deviations named precisely instead of vaguely flagged
  • Approvals routed automatically to the right person
Invoice Processing, Live
New invoiceSupplier invoice by email, 12,480 €, assigned to PO 4500-2291
Three-way matchQuantity and price match order and delivery note, released
DeviationInvoice 3,150 € vs. order 2,900 €, price difference detected
QueriedDiscrepancy sent to purchasing with both documents attached
Portal download7 invoices pulled from supplier portal and read automatically
Discount secured2% early-payment discount on 8,640 €, approval prioritised
RoutedAmount above 10,000 €, sent to management for second approval
Partial deliveryOnly 60% delivered, invoice held until remaining goods arrive
Archived34 approved invoices filed audit-proof in the DMS and linked to orders
Summary sentDaily AP status posted to the finance channel in Teams
New invoiceSupplier invoice by email, 12,480 €, assigned to PO 4500-2291
Three-way matchQuantity and price match order and delivery note, released
DeviationInvoice 3,150 € vs. order 2,900 €, price difference detected
QueriedDiscrepancy sent to purchasing with both documents attached
Portal download7 invoices pulled from supplier portal and read automatically
Discount secured2% early-payment discount on 8,640 €, approval prioritised
RoutedAmount above 10,000 €, sent to management for second approval
Partial deliveryOnly 60% delivered, invoice held until remaining goods arrive
Archived34 approved invoices filed audit-proof in the DMS and linked to orders
Summary sentDaily AP status posted to the finance channel in Teams
Impact75%of incoming invoices matched and routed without manual work
Before / After

The same invoice run, with and without an AI employee.

Today

  • Invoices wait in a shared mailbox until someone finds the time
  • Order matching is done by hand, document by document
  • Early-payment discounts expire because approvals sit too long
  • Deviations bounce back and forth between finance and purchasing
  • Nobody can say where a specific invoice is stuck right now

With your AI invoice clerk

  • Every invoice is captured and read on arrival, from any channel
  • Order and delivery note are matched automatically before approval
  • Discount deadlines are tracked and prioritised in time
  • Deviations reach purchasing with the exact difference attached
  • A live overview shows every invoice and who is holding it up
Built for German accounts payable

Your AI invoice clerk is built with your company knowledge: your suppliers, your order types, your tolerance limits, your approval thresholds. It knows that a framework order is checked differently than a one-off purchase, because that is how your team checks it.

  • Applies your tolerance limits for quantity and price deviations
  • Respects your approval thresholds and four-eyes rules
  • Handles ZUGFeRD, XRechnung, PDF, and scanned paper invoices
  • Documents every check step for GoBD-compliant traceability
2 weeksuntil the first workflows run productively
Invoice matching automation
Your Systems
ERP
DATEV
Outlook
DMS
Procurement
Teams

Every accounts payable team works differently. What could your AI invoice clerk take over from day one?

Invoice Capture

Reads invoices from Outlook, scan, and supplier portals: PDF, ZUGFeRD, XRechnung, or paper.

Two-Way Match

Compares quantities, prices, and terms against the purchase order before anything is approved.

Three-Way Match

Adds the delivery note, so you only pay for goods that were actually received.

Deviation Handling

Names the exact difference and sends the case to purchasing instead of leaving it stuck.

Discount Monitoring

Tracks early-payment discount deadlines and pushes those invoices forward in time.

Due Date Tracking

Keeps every payment term in view so nothing slips into a late-payment reminder.

Approval Routing

Routes by cost center, amount threshold, and four-eyes rules to the right approver.

Duplicate Detection

Catches invoices that arrive twice through different channels before they are paid twice.

VAT Validation

Checks tax rates, VAT IDs, and mandatory invoice fields required by German law.

Audit-Proof Archiving

Files every document in your DMS, linked to order, delivery note, and approval.

Payment Preparation

Builds the payment proposal with due dates, discounts, and approved amounts for DATEV or your ERP.

Open Items Overview

Shows at any moment what is approved, what is blocked, and who is holding it up.

And many more. We build AI employees for whatever your finance team needs.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about your AI invoice clerk.

It runs incoming invoice processing end to end. It pulls invoices from the shared Outlook mailbox, the scan folder, and supplier portals, extracts every field, matches them against purchase orders and delivery notes, watches payment terms and early-payment discounts, routes approvals by your thresholds, and files everything audit-proof in your DMS. Anything that does not match cleanly goes to your team with the discrepancy already spelled out.

A two-way match compares the invoice against the purchase order only: quantities, prices, and terms. A three-way match adds the delivery note. That also confirms that what was billed was actually received. Your AI invoice clerk does both, picks the right check per supplier and order type, and only escalates the cases where the numbers genuinely disagree.

Yes. Superkind sits on top of your existing stack as one integration layer: SAP, Microsoft Dynamics or another ERP, DATEV, Outlook, your DMS, and your procurement systems. The AI invoice clerk works inside the programs you already use. There is no separate invoice portal and no new tool your team has to learn first.

It changes nothing about how you file documents and works inside your existing GoBD-relevant systems. Every step is documented: which invoice arrived when, which check ran, who approved what, and where the document was archived. Nothing is booked or filed outside your systems. The audit trail stays complete and in the form your auditors already know.

First workflows typically go live within two weeks. We start with the highest-volume supplier group and the standard matching rules. The exceptions follow step by step: framework orders, partial deliveries, credit notes. The order is driven by what clears your backlog fastest, not by what is easiest to build.

A fraction of a full-time hire, priced per use case. For comparison: an accounts payable clerk costs an employer 45,000 to 65,000 euros a year depending on the region, and the industry benchmark for processing one invoice manually is 10 to 30 euros. Your AI invoice clerk scales with invoice volume instead of headcount, and secured early-payment discounts alone often cover a meaningful part of the cost.

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