80%
faster payables processing
$5 Billion
$ bills processed in 2020
99%
customer satisfaction rating
15,000 +
users in 14 + countries
1 Million +
data entry hours saved
1000 +
trees saved
Award Winning
5 Star rated and Award winning
24/5
telephone & live-chat support
Introducing Lightyear ...
The Payables platform revolutionising the global procurement landscape.
Watch our short (1 min) clip to get a quick overview of what we do.
Our Suite of Products
Purchasing
Automate and streamline your purchasing processes. Decrease approval time, ensure spend control and prevent fraud across your teams with our approvals matrix.
Accounts Payable
Improve the efficiency of your Accounts Payable team by automating mundane and repetitive tasks. Automate your data-entry, approvals process and supplier statement reconciliation plus more.
The features that power Lightyear
Purchase Orders
Create, approve and send PO's to your suppliers for immediate ordering. Match your POs with your deliveries and invoices for 3-way matching.
Intelligent Data Extraction
Extract all the line items from your suppliers invoices, credit notes and statements. Extract data from receipts too!
Automated Bookkeeping
Set bookkeeping automation rules for GL coding, tracking categories and supplier tax rates. Set rules based on supplier or Invoice specific criteria.
Approvals
Multi-tiered approvals process to approve your supplier invoices for payment and purchase orders. Get up to 5 levels of approval.
Auto Reconcile Statements
Touchless Supplier statement reconciliation. Lightyear will Automatically reconcile your supplier statements and flag variances for review.
Integrations
Integrate your data with your Accounting, ERP and Inventory softwares. With our cloud API integrations you can sync your data 2 way in one click.
Collaboration & Approvals in our free Lightyear mobile app
Lightyear's iOS and Android mobile app allows you to collaborate with your colleagues and clients wherever and whenever.
Complete your approvals and tasks, dispute bills, add notes, receive notifications and upload images of receipts/bills on the go.
Accounting, ERP and
Inventory / Point of Sale integrations
We integrate with the leading Accounting, ERP and Inventory platforms to make getting your data into these systems a simple process.
Trusted by leading Accountants and Businesses everywhere
"Hundreds of our McDonalds clients are using Lightyear - It's great for speeding up the entry of bills and supporting separate bill authorisation."
Max Telford, CEO
Maxtel Software
“With more than one million bills processed, Lightyear continues to be an invaluable addition to Abcom’s suite of business applications."
Jim Hawkins, CEO Abcom Software
"Lightyear has an easy to use interface, eliminating data-entry and facilitating better business processes around the accounts payable function."
Mitch Stone, PartnerPKF Sydney
"The software itself it very user friendly, making our processes much more efficient and eliminating our need for paper in the accounts payable process"
Pearse Mulvenna, Financial Controller
Andras House
"I love that all my actions can be done in one place - Lightyear stores/archives all information received and makes searching it a breeze."
Sharon Batty, Accountant
"The beauty of Lightyear is that everything happens before it reaches our accounting software which makes the process much more flexible and accurate."
Glenda McKechnie, Accounts Payable
Stone & Wood
"Since we started using Lightyear, I have saved at least 4 hours a week in wages. We run two entities and I was able to create a sister company at no extra cost."
Tamara Miller, Accounts
Border Inn Hotel
"Simplicity - easy for non-finance users to navigate, a clear audit trail on all interactions with our docs and it is very cost-efficient."
Merran Brookman, Financial Controller
Zagame Corporation
"Lightyear tells you what bills are missing and allows you to contact the supplier to request missing bills directly from the software. Amazing!!!"
Christine So, Bookkeeper
The MBA Partnership
"Saves so much time. It is so easy to use, and the staff friendly and knowledgeable. It was very easy to train our farm managers to use. We love it!"
Nicole McLean, Assistant Accountant
Compass Agribusiness
"Lightyear allows us to easily manage the accounts payable process across our entire client base. The parent dashboard gives great visibility across them all."
Daniel Hardy, Director
ProAMS
"I've been using Lightyear for a few years for larger clients and have just recently transitioned my smaller clients across. Regardless of the size of business, Lightyear provides great efficiencies."
Katherine Powell
"Lightyear delivers, and then some. I have found the accuracy of the data extraction and multi-level approval rules have significantly reduced manual processing costs."
Chris Styant
"The Lightyear team are fantastic to deal with - knowledgable and patient. They are more than a supplier. They are an invaluable and trusted business partner, who have the best interest of our businesses to heart."
Justin N, GM
"We reviewed a number of AP apps, and Lightyear was by far and away the best. Their sign-off functionality for managers is unique to all the apps we surveyed. Love it!"
Joy Mulrey, Director
Code Bookkeeping
