25% off Purchasing & Accounts Payable Automation for Metcash Customers
Stop wasting time on manual invoice checks.
Lightyear helps retail and hospitality operators save time, prevent overcharges, and stay on top of bills, so you can focus on running your business, not chasing paperwork.
Pain Points Lightyear Solves
Time-Consuming Admin
Manually entering invoice data, checking prices, and reconciling supplier statements eats into valuable time.
Lack of Visibility
No clear oversight on cash flow, stock costs, or supplier trends, leading to occasional missed payments or overstocking.
Risk of Human Error
Paper-based processes lead to misplaced invoices, miscalculations, and overpayments.
Cash Flow Uncertainty
Managing payments and expenses without automation means financial decisions are reactive rather than strategic.
Book a Discovery Call
Speak to our team and lock in your exclusive Metcash discount: 25% off Lightyear for the first year when you purchase a bulk payment plan.
Lightyear Terms and Conditions apply. This deal has been constructed to create value for all parties involved - our members, our service providers and Metcash. Metcash does not charge you a fee to access this offer but will earn a commission from Lightyear if you take up one of its offers
How Lightyear works
Lightyear is the easy way to manage your supplier bills, without changing how you work. It helps businesses save time, avoid overpaying suppliers, and cut out manual data entry. No more lost invoices, double-checking prices, or filing paperwork.
Here’s how it works:
- Your invoices are emailed straight into Lightyear
- It reads and extracts the line-item details automatically (no more typing)
- You approve the invoice with one click
- The data is sent directly into your accounting system
- All invoices, orders, and statements are stored digitally, so you can find anything in seconds and always know what’s coming and going
Lightyear gives you full control of your bills and cash flow — without adding more work.
What our Customers Say
Lightyear has brought together all functions of AP invoice processing in a user-friendly wan and relevant to many different business areas. Everyone from the store managers and staff through to the accounts team and out senior management/operations team now have access and visibility on all invoices sent to the business at any given time.
Lightyear is easy to use and provides many functions that enable us to save time processing invoices and maintain our POS data to ensure pricing integrity.
Our interactions with Lightyear were very impressive and you developed a feature rich platform which appeared to solve all our problems for a reasonable cost.
The solution is a complete no-brainer. I would recommend to any business.
Key Features
Get smarter with your time and spending habits so you can boost your profit margins
Stop overpaying for the same products
The price of goods and services inevitably increases, however you can keep track of these cost rises and make smarter business decisions to help reduce overheads.
Lightyear automatically flags discrepancies in pricing between the supplier invoice and agreed supplier pricing, alerting you to an increase before payment. You can use this to report on price rises throughout the year and negotiate better rates with your supplier.
Better inventory monitoring
3-way matching enables you to automatically match invoices against the corresponding Purchase Order and Goods Received Note to ensure you only paying for goods that arrive at your venue.
Stay on top of your supplier invoices
Lightyear auto-reconciles all your supplier statements, so you only have to handle statements with missing docs.
Are you missing some documentation? Lightyear will auto-populate an email to your suppliers with details of the missing documentation, which you can send in 2 clicks. Archive and find all your reconciled statements for 1 year in your Lightyear archive.
Don't pay twice
Duplicate invoices are common and hard to identify. Don't waste money double paying for the same products and services. Lightyear's AP automation automatically detects duplicate invoices and flags these to your team in the approval tab.
Bank details checker
The bank details feature within Lightyear allows you to check the bank details extracted from an invoice against what you have stored against each supplier. If there is any kind of variance between the two, we will flag this to you in your Approvals workflow. Within this, we will provide a full audit history of the changes made to bank details for each supplier.
Accurate reporting for decision-making
Lightyear's line item coding functionality means you can generate detailed reports across products and services, venues or other cost centres.
7 years of historical data means your team are able to forecast seasonal trends or customer purchasing behaviour based on previous spending. This information helps make smarter decisions including availing of discounts for bulk purchasing during busy periods or popular produce, or reducing waste during quieter periods.
Get control of spending
Allow your team members to easily create Purchase Orders and automatically route them to the appropriate approver. Gaining tighter control on what your team are purchasing reduces the chances of over ordering.
Send Purchase Orders directly to your suppliers and request acceptance notifications all from within Lightyear.
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Export stock data to any third party inventory system that accepts a CSV upload.
Further enhancements coming soon.
Integrate with leading solutions
From accounting packages to inventory solutions, Lightyear offers seamless integration into leading systems in the retail industry. Eliminate duplicated work for your team and give them back time they need to complete more pressing tasks.
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