Light vs Medius

Medius is accounts payable automation for mid-sized and large companies that sits on top of the ERP: AI invoice capture, matching and routing, a copilot for approvers, supplier onboarding, payments, procurement and expenses with cards, all synced into the ERP that stays the system of record. Light is the agentic ERP where the ledger and the payables are the same system, with AR, corporate cards, procurement, vendor payments on local rails in 80+ countries and consolidation built in.

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Light and Medius, compared

FeatureLightMedius
General ledger and accounting system of record
Invoice capture, matching and approval routing
Procurement: requisitions, purchase orders and budget controls
Expense management with cards
Customer invoicing and accounts receivable
Consolidated financial statements for the group
One system for both payables and the ledger

Keep the transaction together

Medius syncs coded invoices and payments into your ERP. In Light, the invoice, the approval, the payment and the ledger entry share the same system and audit trail.

Run both sides of finance

Light includes customer invoicing and receivables alongside payables, cards and procurement. The ledger behind your AP tool becomes part of the same platform.

Consolidate where the bills are booked

Light combines entities and currencies continuously, with supplier payments on local rails in more than 80 countries.

When to choose Light

The ledger is included

Light is the system of record: spend, AP, AR and the general ledger in one platform, with no ERP decision left open.

Pay suppliers from the ledger

Approved bills pay from your own bank accounts on local rails in 80+ countries.

Close every entity at once

Consolidation and eliminations update as transactions post.

“We evaluated several vendors. Light won because it covers our full finance stack, revenue, AR, AP, expenses, and consolidation, without stitching together a patchwork of point solutions.”
TanjaDirector of Finance, Omnea

Built for the daily work

Bills through to payment

Capture invoices, route approvals and pay vendors from the same system.

Uploading a bill to Light for AI extraction

Room to grow

One ledger built to handle billions of transactions across your business.

The Light ledger with live transactions

Trace every number

Open a report and drill straight into the transactions behind it.

Real-time reporting in Light with drill-down

Spending, under control

Expenses, vendors and cards connected to your ledger.

Expenses

Collect receipts, approve expenses and track spend as it happens.

Managing expenses on the Light mobile app

Vendors

Keep supplier details, bills and approvals together. Apply your purchasing rules as work moves through.

Vendor and bill management in Light

Cards

Issue cards for employees and vendors. Pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay. Send receipts through Slack, Teams or email.

A Light payment card

Frequently asked questions

Is Medius a general ledger?

No. It is an AP and spend platform that keeps your ERP as the system of record.

Does Light handle invoice approvals and purchase orders?

Yes. Approvals, purchase orders and PO matching run in the same ledger as the payment.

When does Medius fit?

When you are keeping your ERP and process a high volume of supplier invoices across entities.

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