Allow your team members to Create detailed purchase orders for Services and/or Products,  from your suppliers item's catalogue.

Lightyear’s automated approvals workflow routes Purchase Orders to the correct Approver, seamlessly without user input.

Lightyear sends your purchase order directly to your suppliers email address for one click acceptance.

See immediately when a supplier has accepted and instantly see the status of 

your order.

Keep track of your received and outstanding stock via Lightyear's ‘GRN’ feature. 

Automatically 3-way match your purchase order with your GRN and your suppliers bill. 

Easily control spend with Lightyear’s budgets. Set budgets by Departments, Project and Company by time period.

Lightyear's proprietary data-extraction engine instantly extracts data with 100% accuracy from system-generated PDFs.

Lightyear extracts data from image-based docs using OCR technology in less than 2 minutes.

Lightyear extracts summary data from receipts in less than 2 minutes. 

Real-time reconciliation flags any missing bills or credit notes, and one click 'request copy' from the supplier.

Manually enter bills that aren't able to have data extracted from them, such as hand-written bills, dockets or receipts. 

Automate coding at a supplier, bill, line or product-level - the choice is yours.  Set rules for key-words or product codes to drive coding rules.

Lightyear will compare each product-code purchased with your supplier's agreed price list, flagging any overcharging to you.

Process bills from overseas suppliers, whatever currency they use. 

Lightyear cross-checks extracted data against bill total to ensure data accuracy.

Robust approvals process that can be customised to allow 1,2 or 3 different levels of approval 

Lightyear Departments restrict users to only view and approve bills that are relevant to them. 

Send approval tasks to other Lightyear users, or even to external persons via email.

Automatically route bills to managers for secondary approval on a per-bill or per-user basis.

See exactly who did what, and when, on every bill. Leave permanent notes for other users on specific bills. 

Move bills to your 'Disputed' tab temporarily as the dispute is resolved. 

Our unique 3-panel layout gives you all the information you need on 1 screen (or switch to a 2-panel view).

Automatically alerts you to any duplicate bills that may already be in your approval workflow. 

Attach supplementary documents to a bill e.g. delivery dockets, POs, contracts etc.

Receive notifications via email, in browser or in mobile app whenever there is a new approvals request.

You can email yourself a copy of the original bill by selecting 'Email to Me', or simply download from the browser. 

Users can collaborate on a bill via notes function, or simply leave notes for yourself.

Snap photos of your receipts (or bills) and upload them to your Lightyear account. 

Approve, dispute or reject bills while you are on the go.

Reply to any instant messages you receive straight from the mobile app. 

Store your supplier invoices for up to 8 years depending on your country. 

Store all your supplier statements for up to 8 years in the Lightyear cloud. 

All your document data (including document image) accessible from anywhere. 

Search by supplier, GL code, amount, category, keywords etc, or a combination of all.

Download any search result to csv to allow for further data analysis. 

Lightyear is tax-office compliant, giving your and your auditors peace of mind.

Lightyear matches the content of the supplier statement with the documents in your Lightyear account.

Missing documents are flagged, and with one-click Lightyear emails the supplier, asking for a copy.

View any Tasks your have received or that you have sent to your colleagues.

@mention any other users to notify them of any questions, comments or things you would like them to do. 

Each user has a dedicated Notifications Feed for any mentions or approval requests. 

Give users different levels of access depending on what they need to do in Lightyear. 

Set user-specific permissions to customise what approvals then can give in Lightyear. 

Upload a photo to your avatar so people will instantly recognise you in app.

2-way sync. Data created in Xero will transfer across to Lightyear, and vice-versa. 

Send attachment to Xero

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2-way sync. Data created in QuickBooks Online will transfer across to Lightyear, and vice-versa.
Send attachment to QuickBooks. 

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2-way sync. Data created in NetSuite will transfer across to Lightyear, and vice-versa.

Send URL of the invoice to NetSuite.

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2 way sync. Data created in MYOB will transfer across to Lightyear and vice versa. 

Send URL to MYOB

Detailed CSV exported from Lightyear formatted to match Sage's import requirements. 

Upload your Sage details into Lightyear easily with a simple CSV.

Create a custom CSV formatted spreadsheet that can be uploaded to any accounting software that can accept an imported file. 

Export stock data to any third party inventory system that accepts a CSV upload. 

Create a single Standalone account for single business owners.

Create a Parent company with all your brands/locations/subsidiaries/divisions as Child accounts.

From a parent account, assign a user to any number of child accounts. 

Parent accounts cover the usage cost of Child accounts, giving you the simplicity and efficiencies of one bill/plan.

To export a bill, or process a statement, you need 1 credit.  Credits are purchased as part of monthly recurring plans.

Larger businesses can purchase credits in bulk (in advance) and use them over a 6-month duration. 

The more credits you use/buy, the cheaper the cost of a credit becomes - volumetric discounts are built-in. 

Add as many users as you need to your account at no extra cost. 

As we have offices in Belfast (UK) and Sydney (AU), we are able to offer support 24 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Best in class support - contact us via live-chat, phone, email and ticketing. 

We offer a comprehensive knowledge-base on all our features, with deep links from every page in Lightyear. 

We offer a white-glove Let's Get Going service to assist you getting started with Lightyear.