tl;drInvoice processing covers everything that happens to an invoice between arrival and payment: receipt, data extraction, coding to the right account, matching against a purchase order or receipt, approval routing, and posting to the ledger.

It's one of the highest-volume, most repetitive workflows in finance, which makes it one of the clearest cases for automation. The difference between traditional invoice processing and an AI-driven version isn't just speed. It's whether the exceptions, the mismatched PO, the new vendor, the missing field, get resolved automatically or land back on someone's desk.

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