Nothing to fill in
Nobody reads the invoices.
So watch what happens
when someone does.
Seven invoices, two suppliers, three months. Below is the read running over them. You do not have to enter anything, and two of the things it finds could not be found on any single invoice at all.
Real output, run over synthetic invoices built to carry known defects, so what the reading catches can be checked against what was put there. No real supplier, no real client, no real money. Your own read would be your own documents and your own figures.
The questions nobody asks
Five you should be able to answer
- Which of your suppliers raised a price this year, and what date did it change?
- What did you pay in delivery, fuel and other add-on lines last quarter?
- Has the same invoice ever been paid twice, and would you know if it had?
- When did anyone last add a supplier invoice up by hand, line by line?
- If the arithmetic on an invoice were wrong, who in the building would catch it?
What you actually get
The read, on your own documents
You send a folder of invoices for a defined period. You get back the three things above, on your suppliers, with every figure traceable to the document and line it came from.
It reconciles
Every line on every invoice, one row each, with the source document named on every row. Each line multiplied out against the amount printed beside it, the lines against the subtotal, the subtotal and tax against the total.
It remembers
Prices compared across the period, so a unit price that moved shows up with both dates and both figures. Document numbers compared too, so an invoice that arrived twice is flagged rather than paid twice.
It hands you the letter
Where something needs asking, a written request to send, citing the invoices and the dates, asking them to confirm the rate you agreed and when it changed. You send it. We never do.
Where you can find the agreement you signed, the read compares the billing against it. Where you cannot, and most owners cannot, it still reports the arithmetic and the price movement, because those need no contract to be true.
Posture, in writing
What this will never claim
This corner of the market is full of operators who audit a statement in order to move you onto something they earn a commission on.
- We never say a supplier billed you wrongly.When a figure disagrees with its own lines, either the document is wrong or the reading is, and only a person looking at the page can say which. What you get is the disagreement, named precisely, with the document and the line it came from.
- We never promise you money back.The promise is that you will know. A month where everything ties does happen, and it is reported just as plainly, because knowing that is worth something too.
- We never contact your suppliers.The letter is written for you to send, in your name, on your terms. Your relationship with them stays yours.
- We take nothing from any supplier, processor or carrier.No commission, no referral fee, no rebate, ever. You are the only party paying, which is the only way the answer can be trusted.
- Your documents stay yours.The reading runs on a machine we control, and your invoices are not handed to an outside service to process.
Bring one invoice to a call
Fifteen minutes. We read it while you watch, and you leave knowing whether there is anything worth chasing in your own numbers. If there is not, that is what we will tell you. If a read of your own documents makes sense, it is scoped and quoted on that same call.
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