Every Lightyear Feature
Getting your documents into Lightyear
Unique email address
Choose your own Lightyear email address to share with your suppliers. Get bills emailed directly to Lightyear.
File upload from desktop
Drag and drop your bills into Lightyear from your browser. 10mb limit.
Mobile App
Snap a photo of your receipts or bills and upload them. Available for iOS and Android.
Forward existing emails
Re-direct or forward your existing supplier emails to your business's new Lightyear email address
File types supported
PDF, PNG, TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG
Upload multiple bills
Upload multiple bills in the same document and split them into individual bills from within Lightyear.
Purchase Orders
Create Purchase Orders
Allow your team members to Create detailed purchase orders for Services and/or Products, from your suppliers item's catalogue.
Approve Purchase Orders
Lightyear’s automated approvals workflow routes Purchase Orders to the correct Approver, seamlessly without user input.
Send to supplier
Lightyear sends your purchase order directly to your suppliers email address for one click acceptance.
Supplier acceptance
See immediately when a supplier has accepted and instantly see the status of
your order.
Goods received tracking
Keep track of your received and outstanding stock via Lightyear's ‘GRN’ feature.
3-way matching - Coming Soon
Automatically 3-way match your purchase order with your GRN and your suppliers bill.
Budgets - Coming Soon
Easily control spend with Lightyear’s budgets. Set budgets by Departments, Project and Company by time period.
Data-Extraction
Automatic bill and credit-note data-extraction
Lightyear's proprietary data-extraction engine instantly extracts data with 100% accuracy from system-generated PDFs.
OCR data-extraction from image files
Lightyear extracts data from image-based docs using OCR technology in less than 2 minutes.
Receipt data-extraction from mobile app
Lightyear extracts summary data from receipts in less than 2 minutes.
Automatic supplier statement reconciliation
Real-time reconciliation flags any missing bills or credit notes, and one click 'request copy' from the supplier.
Manual-entry option
Manually enter bills that aren't able to have data extracted from them, such as hand-written bills, dockets or receipts.
Rule-based coding
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.
Automatic price-checking
Lightyear will compare each product-code purchased with your supplier's agreed price list, flagging any overcharging to you.
Foreign currency
Process bills from overseas suppliers, whatever currency they use.
Validation checks
Lightyear cross-checks extracted data against bill total to ensure data accuracy.
Approvals Workflow
Multi-tiered Approvals
Robust approvals process that can be customised to allow 1,2 or 3 different levels of approval
Departments
Lightyear Departments restrict users to only view and approve bills that are relevant to them.
Send bill approval tasks
Send approval tasks to other Lightyear users, or even to external persons via email.
Route bill workflows
Automatically route bills to managers for secondary approval on a per-bill or per-user basis.
Audit trail peace of mind
See exactly who did what, and when, on every bill. Leave permanent notes for other users on specific bills.
Dispute bills
Move bills to your 'Disputed' tab temporarily as the dispute is resolved.
Customise your view
Our unique 3-panel layout gives you all the information you need on 1 screen (or switch to a 2-panel view).
Flag duplicate bills
Automatically alerts you to any duplicate bills that may already be in your approval workflow.
Attach docs to bills
Attach supplementary documents to a bill e.g. delivery dockets, POs, contracts etc.
Notifications
Receive notifications via email, in browser or in mobile app whenever there is a new approvals request.
Get copies of bills
You can email yourself a copy of the original bill by selecting 'Email to Me', or simply download from the browser.
Notes
Users can collaborate on a bill via notes function, or simply leave notes for yourself.
Mobile App
Document capture
Snap photos of your receipts (or bills) and upload them to your Lightyear account.
Approvals
Approve, dispute or reject bills while you are on the go.
Instant messaging
Reply to any instant messages you receive straight from the mobile app.
Archive
7-yr bill archive
Store your supplier invoices for up to 7 years depending on your country.
1-yr statement archive
Store all your supplier statements for 1 year in the Lightyear cloud.
Cloud storage
All your document data (including document image) accessible from anywhere.
Dynamic search function
Search by supplier, GL code, amount, category, keywords etc, or a combination of all.
Reports
Download any search result to csv to allow for further data analysis.
Tax office compliance
Lightyear is tax-office compliant, giving your and your auditors peace of mind.
Automatic Supplier Statement Reconciliation
Checks for missing bills
Lightyear matches the content of the supplier statement with the documents in your Lightyear account.
One-click to request copy
Missing documents are flagged, and with one-click Lightyear emails the supplier, asking for a copy.
Communications
View sent/received tasks
View any Tasks your have received or that you have sent to your colleagues.
@mention users
@mention any other users to notify them of any questions, comments or things you would like them to do.
Notifications feed
Each user has a dedicated Notifications Feed for any mentions or approval requests.
Roles and Permissions
Admin/user/reports only
Give users different levels of access depending on what they need to do in Lightyear.
Approval permissions
Set user-specific permissions to customise what approvals then can give in Lightyear.
Personalise your profile
Upload a photo to your avatar so people will instantly recognise you in app.
MYOB AR Live - native cloud integration via API
Automatic Data Syncing
2 way sync. Data created in MYOB will transfer across to Lightyear and vice versa.
Send URL to MYOB
Sage 50 / 200 - CSV upload
Custom CSV export
Detailed CSV exported from Lightyear formatted to match Sage's import requirements.
Bulk upload
Upload your Sage details into Lightyear easily with a simple CSV.
Other non-cloud desktop accounting software - CSV upload
Export to any accounting software that accepts CSV upload
Create a custom CSV formatted spreadsheet that can be uploaded to any accounting software that can accept an imported file.
Inventory integrations
Export full stock data
Export stock data to any third party inventory system that accepts a CSV upload.
Account structures
Standalone
Create a single Standalone account for single business owners.
Parent/child
Create a Parent company with all your brands/locations/subsidiaries/divisions as Child accounts.
User management
From a parent account, assign a user to any number of child accounts.
Shared billing
Parent accounts cover the usage cost of Child accounts, giving you the simplicity and efficiencies of one bill/plan.
Pricing
Credits - simple pricing
To export a bill, or process a statement, you need 1 credit. Credits are purchased as part of monthly recurring plans.
Bulk pricing option
Larger businesses can purchase credits in bulk (in advance) and use them over a 6-month duration.
Transparent pricing
The more credits you use/buy, the cheaper the cost of a credit becomes - volumetric discounts are built-in.
Unlimited users
Add as many users as you need to your account at no extra cost.
Support
24/5 support
As we have offices in Belfast (UK) and Sydney (AU), we are able to offer support 24 hours a day, 5 days a week.
Multi-channel support
Best in class support - contact us via live-chat, phone, email and ticketing.
Knowledge base
We offer a comprehensive knowledge-base on all our features, with deep links from every page in Lightyear.
Let's Get Going service
We offer a white-glove Let's Get Going service to assist you getting started with Lightyear.