80%
faster payables processing
$4 Billion
of bills processed in 2020
99%
customer satisfaction rating
15,000 +
users in 10 + countries
500,000 +
hours saved annually
1000 +
trees saved annually
Award Winning
GSA Startup Of The Year 2019
24/5
telephone & live-chat support
What businesses love about Lightyear
Data extracted, without scanners
Line item data can be shared with accounting and 3rd-party systems, eliminating data entry.
Rules-based automation
Automatic routing of bills, automatic price-checking and automatic GL-coding reduces costs, and errors.
Customisable Approvals workflow
E.g., allow departmental managers to approve bills, before owner & bookkeeper sign-off.
Automated Statement Reconciliation
Lightyear automatically ensure there are no missing bills or credit notes at month-end.
Collaboration & Discussion
@mention colleagues and finance teams to notify them, ask questions and send approval tasks.
Group structure access
Associate companies together, and get a holistic view of all your businesses.
“Lightyear has allowed our bookkeeper to reduce data entry by between 40 and 50 percent.”
Trusted by leading 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
