SAP S/4HANA & SAP ECC

SAP invoice automation without the implementation programme

ErpInvoiceFlow captures your AP invoices with AI, validates them against your vendor master, and gets them into SAP S/4HANA or SAP ECC — with no per-vendor templates to build, published pricing, and setup measured in hours rather than quarters.

S/4HANA and ECC No per-vendor templates Pricing published, not quoted
Rheinwerk Komponenten
PO invoice · 3-way matched
Ready to post
Delta Industrial
Non-PO · awaiting GL coding
Captured
Halvorsen AS
Trading name ≠ vendor master
Held for review
Meridian Tooling
Price variance outside tolerance
Exception
Both, not one

S/4HANA and ECC are not the same problem

Most AP estates are not on one clean release. Some entities have moved, some have not, and a migration is somewhere on the roadmap. Capture should not be the thing that forces a decision.

S/4HANA

Modern integration paths

Newer releases expose considerably more through supported APIs, which is what makes line-level three-way matching against the purchase order and goods receipt practical rather than theoretical.

ECC

Still carrying real volume

A large share of AP still runs on ECC and will for years. We treat it as a first-class target rather than a legacy footnote — the capture engine is identical, and the integration path is agreed against your environment.

Mid-migration

Both live at once

If entities are moving in waves, invoices need to reach whichever system owns that company code today. That is a configuration question, not a re-implementation, and it does not require rebuilding vendor templates.

How the SAP integration works

Capture, validate, then post — in that order

The validation step is the one that matters. Anything that cannot be resolved against your SAP master data stops before it reaches your ledger.

1

Invoices arrive

Vendors email invoices to an address we provide, or your existing AP mailbox forwards them. No supplier is asked to adopt a portal, change a format, or register anywhere.

2

The AI reads the document

Header and line detail are extracted without a template per vendor: invoice number and date, totals, tax and freight, purchase order references, then quantity, unit price, and description for each line.

3

Validated against SAP

The vendor is resolved against your vendor master, the company code assigned, and PO-backed invoices matched line by line. Anything below your confidence threshold is held for review.

4

Posted into SAP

Clean invoices go into SAP through its supported integration paths — no direct database writes, no ABAP development, and nothing that complicates your next upgrade.

Three-way matching

Invoice, purchase order, goods receipt

Three-way matching is available for ERP systems that expose API access, which includes SAP. In an SAP context, the interesting part is not the match itself — it is what happens to the invoices that don't match.

  • Line-level comparison, because a header total that ties proves little
  • Partial goods receipts and split deliveries handled as normal, not as errors
  • Variances outside your tolerance are held, never posted quietly
  • Non-PO invoices routed to coding and approval instead of being rejected

What is available depends on your release, integration path, and how your environment is configured. We confirm that against your system rather than promising it in advance.

Invoice type
What happens
PO-backed, fully received
Matched and posted
PO-backed, partial receipt
Matched to what was received
Price outside tolerance
Held as an exception
Non-PO, needs GL coding
Captured, sent for coding
Vendor not confidently resolved
Held for review
Straight answers

You are probably comparing us with much larger vendors

That is a fair thing to do, so here is where we sit rather than a page of claims about being enterprise-ready.

“The incumbents do far more than this.”

They do, and we will not pretend otherwise. Supplier networks, procurement, dynamic discounting, and full workflow suites are all real capabilities we do not offer. If you need the platform, buy the platform. If your actual problem is that AP keys invoices by hand, you are paying for a great deal you will not use.

“Enterprise capture is a six-month project.”

Usually because of per-vendor template configuration, which is the part we removed. With no templates to build, setup is connecting to SAP and pointing an inbox at us — averaging under two hours, with no professional services engagement to budget for.

“What is this actually going to cost?”

Our pricing is on this page. Invoice volume is the only variable — vendors, users, and the SAP integration are included, there is no implementation fee, and month-to-month is available on every plan. You can size it yourself before you speak to anyone.

“Can you handle our vendor diversity?”

This is the case we are strongest on. Because nothing is template-driven, a vendor's first invoice is handled exactly like their thousandth, and adding suppliers costs you nothing in configuration time.

“Who else your size runs SAP with you?”

Nobody yet. We are new and have no customers, and we would rather say so than manufacture a case study. The counter-offer is straightforward: capture your invoices live in the demo and judge the output, not the reference list.

“What happens to our data?”

Invoices are processed to extract your data and are never used to train shared or public models. Data is isolated per tenant, encrypted in transit and at rest, retained to the policy you set, and every invoice is traceable from intake to import.

Pricing

Published pricing, before the first call

Priced on invoice volume — not on vendors, users, or your SAP connection. No implementation fee, no professional services line, and no quote-only pricing to chase.

Launch

$495/mo
billed annually · $595/mo month-to-month
500 invoices included
  • Unlimited vendors, no per-vendor mapping
  • SAP S/4HANA or ECC integration included
  • $0.85 per additional invoice
Book a Demo

Scale

$1,995/mo
billed annually · $2,395/mo month-to-month
5,000 invoices included
  • Unlimited vendors, no per-vendor mapping
  • SAP S/4HANA or ECC integration included
  • $0.35 per additional invoice
Book a Demo

Enterprise

$3,250/mo
billed annually · $3,900/mo month-to-month
10,000 invoices included
  • Unlimited vendors, no per-vendor mapping
  • SAP S/4HANA or ECC integration included
  • $0.28 per additional invoice
Book a Demo

Annual plans are paid up front for a 12-month term. Month-to-month has no commitment and can be cancelled any time. Overage rates are the same on both terms.

Processing more than 10,000 invoices a month?

We'll build a plan around your volume, entities, and ERP footprint.

Contact us for pricing
Building the business case

Model it on your own SAP volume

Published industry benchmarks put the average fully-loaded cost of processing one invoice manually at $10.89, against $2.78 for best-in-class automated AP teams, with a 10.9 day average cycle time and 3.6% of invoices requiring rework. Those are industry averages, not our results — the calculator uses your volume, your handling time, and your labor rate instead.

< 2 hrs
typical time to go live
2
SAP generations supported: S/4HANA and ECC
0
per-vendor templates to maintain
$0
implementation fee

Sources: Ardent Partners, The State of ePayables; Institute of Finance & Management (IOFM). Published industry averages across all AP organizations — not ErpInvoiceFlow customer results.

FAQ

SAP questions we get asked

Yes, both. A great deal of AP volume still runs on ECC, and plenty of organisations are somewhere mid-migration with both live at once. Capture is identical either way; what differs is the integration path and how the vendor master is modelled, which we confirm against your environment during onboarding.

The extracted vendor name is matched against your vendor master with fuzzy name matching and a confidence threshold you set. If the printed name is abbreviated or a trading name, we retry against the remit-to name in the address block. Anything that does not clear the threshold is held for review rather than posted against a guessed account.

They are captured the same way — the difference is what happens next. Rather than matching to a purchase order, the invoice goes to your coding and approval step with header and line values already extracted, so the reviewer is confirming rather than keying.

Honestly: they do far more than we do. They cover supplier networks, procurement, discounting, and workflow suites, and if you need that breadth you should buy it. We do one thing — capture AP invoices accurately with no per-vendor templates and get them into SAP — with published pricing and setup measured in hours rather than a multi-quarter programme.

We are new and we have no customers yet, which we would rather state plainly than dress up. That is a real consideration and you should weigh it. What we can offer is a live capture on your own invoices during the demo, published pricing, and a month-to-month term so the commitment matches the risk.

Yes. Invoices are exported against the correct entity, and the currency and date formats used in the output are configured per site rather than assumed. Bring your entity structure to the demo and we'll walk through how it maps.

Yes — three-way matching between the invoice, purchase order, and goods receipt is available for ERP systems that expose API access, which includes SAP. Where you already have tolerance rules configured, matching respects them; what is available depends on your specific environment and version, which we confirm during the demo.

That is exactly what we are trying to avoid. We connect through SAP's supported integration paths and do not write directly to database tables. Most of the setup effort is on our side of the boundary, which is why implementation averages under two hours.

No. Your invoices are processed to extract your data and are not used to train shared or public models. Each customer's data is isolated at the tenant level, encrypted in transit and at rest, and retained according to the policy you set.

Plans start at $495 per month for 500 invoices and scale to $3,250 per month for 10,000 invoices on an annual commitment, with per-invoice overage pricing above your plan's included volume. Month-to-month is available on every plan at about 20% more. Pricing is based on invoice volume only — vendors, users, and your ERP integration are included. The SAP integration is included in every plan. See the pricing section above for the full breakdown.
Book a Demo

See your SAP invoices captured live

Bring a handful of your own vendor invoices — including the non-PO ones and the multi-page ones. We'll capture them on the call and show what would post to SAP, and what wouldn't.

  • A live capture on your own invoices, not a canned demo file
  • How vendor master matching and company code assignment work
  • An honest read on fit against whatever else you're evaluating
Takes about 20 seconds. We'll only use your details to contact you about ErpInvoiceFlow.
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