Accounts Payable · AP Automation

Stop paying invoices you didn't approve.

Invoices arrive by photo, email, and file — then someone keys them in, chases approvals, and codes them by hand. Craftable captures every invoice, reads the line items, three-way matches them against the PO and receipt, and syncs the payment back to your books. The overcharge gets caught before it's paid, not at month-end.

9 min saved per invoice across Craftable customers
4M+ invoices processed through Craftable a year
3-way PO · receipt · invoice auto-match on every line
✦Invoice AI
🔒app.craftable.com/ap/invoice
Craftable capturing a vendor invoice — the scanned invoice from Tableside Provisions on the left while Craftable reads each line item on the right, extracting description, GL code, pack size, quantity, and price into a structured invoice
0 minsaved on every invoice processed
0K hrssaved across customers in a year
$5Bin purchasing managed on Craftable
3-wayPO · receipt · invoice auto-match
The cost of manual AP

Three places margin quietly leaks out of AP.

The data entry is the obvious cost. The invoices you overpay — and the close you can't trust — are the expensive ones.

Every invoice retyped before it can be paid.

Vendor invoice
re-typed
line by line
AP entry screen
TodayHours of data entry before anything is coded
With CraftableCaptured and read on upload — 9 min saved each

The overcharge slips through and gets paid.

Purchase order #4821
Heavy Cream, 1 gal$42.00
Qty 6 · agreed price$252.00
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Invoice #NW-04812
Heavy Cream, 1 gal$48.00
Qty 6 · as billed$288.00
Paid
TodayInvoice paid without matching the PO
With Craftable3-way matched and flagged before approval

Close waits on AP to catch up.

Month-end close targetactual
target · day 3
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Books finally close on day 9 — six days past target, every month.
TodayManual coding and chasing stretch the close
With CraftableCoded on capture, synced straight to your books
How it works

From invoice to paid bill — without the manual steps.

Upload an invoice. Craftable handles the reading, the matching, the coding, and the sync back to your accounting system.

Step 1

Capture any invoice

Photo, email, or file upload from any device — the back office or the delivery door. Paper never gets re-typed.

Step 2 · Invoice AI

Craftable reads it

Invoice AI extracts the vendor, items, quantities, and pricing automatically — every line turned into structured data.

Step 3

3-way match & code

Matched against the PO and delivery receipt, line by line, with GL coding that learns from your history.

Step 4

Route for approval

Discrepancies flagged, clean invoices routed to the right approver — by location, department, and spend limit.

Step 5

Pay & sync

Pay by virtual card, ACH, eCheck, or check — then the paid bill syncs back to your accounting system automatically.

In the product

Every invoice due, right on the home screen.

Operators open Craftable to what needs attention — invoices to approve, orders to send, counts to run. Approve an invoice in a click, and the coded cost moves straight into food cost and your P&L.

Craftable operator home screen showing vendor invoices and orders awaiting approval alongside net sales, food cost, and labor metrics
Audit trail

A complete record, every invoice, any device.

Who approved it, what price was agreed, what was received — every invoice carries its full history, exportable from the back office or the floor. Managers approve on their phone; finance sees the same numbers.

Craftable audit view showing line items, quantities, and unit costs with running totals and an export action
The same Craftable record on mobile, showing line-level detail and an approve action
What AP Automation does

Capture, match, approve, pay, and sync — in one place.

3-way invoice matching

Every invoice checked against its PO and delivery receipt, line by line. Overcharges and short-ships get flagged before approval.

GL coding that learns

AI-assisted coding against your chart of accounts, learning from history and customizable by department and location.

Approval workflows

Route invoices by location, department, and spend limit, with a dashboard across every property and a full audit trail.

Craftable Pay, in-platform

Pay by virtual card, ACH, eCheck, or paper check — every payment method managed inside Craftable, no second system.

Payment sync, no double-pay

Paid bills sync back to your accounting system automatically — so nothing gets entered twice or paid twice.

Integrations

Syncs to the books you already keep.

QuickBooks, Sage, M3, and more — approved bills and payments flow straight into your accounting system, both ways.

Logos of systems Craftable connects with, including NCR Aloha, Toast, Square, US Foods, Sysco, QuickBooks, Sage, M3, and Shopify
The comparison

AP Automation vs. how you're doing it now

 Manual AP / QuickBooks + spreadsheetsCraftable
Invoice entryKeyed in by hand, line by lineCaptured and read on upload
Invoice matchingEyeballed against the PO, or not at all3-way auto-match, every line
GL codingManual, inconsistent across locationsAI-assisted, learns from history
ApprovalsEmail chains and sign-off by memoryRouted by location, dept & spend limit
PaymentA separate bank or bill-pay toolVirtual card, ACH, eCheck, or check in-platform
Sync to accountingManual export / re-entry, double-pay riskAutomatic two-way sync
Proof

Operators run tighter AP on Craftable.

Craftable is a hub for everything and provides transparency and clarity for our operators.
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Sam Mendal
Director of Purchasing, bartaco · 32 locations across 14 states
23
units on one platform
Woods Coffee consolidated 23 units onto Craftable and went live with zero post-launch configuration rework — one back office for every location.
Trusted by operators like
Woods Coffee Houston TX Hot Chicken bartaco Tao Group Hospitality PopStroke
Questions

What operators ask about AP

How does Craftable capture invoices?

Any way they arrive. Snap a photo at the delivery door, forward a vendor email, or upload a PDF from the back office — from any device. Craftable reads each invoice and turns the line items into structured data, so nothing gets re-typed by hand.

What is three-way matching, and why does it matter?

Three-way matching checks each invoice against its purchase order and the delivery receipt — line by line. When a vendor charges above the agreed price or ships short, Craftable flags it before the invoice is approved, so you stop paying for overcharges you'd otherwise catch at month-end, if at all.

Does Craftable code invoices to our chart of accounts?

Yes. Craftable applies AI-assisted GL coding that learns from your history and can be customized by department and location. Coding happens on capture, so invoices reach approval already coded — not sitting in a queue waiting on someone to assign accounts.

Can Craftable pay vendors and sync back to our accounting system?

Yes. Pay by virtual card, ACH, eCheck, or paper check inside Craftable, and paid bills sync back to QuickBooks, Sage, M3, and other systems automatically. The two-way sync means a bill doesn't get entered twice or paid twice.

See what AP looks like when it runs start to finish in one place.

In 30 minutes, we'll walk your invoice flow — where it's costing you now, and what capture, matching, approval, and payment look like connected.

★★★★★  9 minutes saved on every invoice — multiplied across more than 4M invoices a year on Craftable.