Reduce manual invoice handling
AI processes common invoices with high touchless rates and recommends next-best actions for exceptions for faster resolution.
INVOICE AUTOMATION
Invoice automation built for exception-heavy work
UiPath automates invoice intake, validation, and exceptions to reduce delays and errors.
The UiPath Solution for Invoice Automation
Invoice automation built for exception-heavy work
UiPath automates invoice intake, validation, and exceptions to reduce delays and errors.
Invoice automation should deliver clear ROI—not more complexity
When invoice work depends on manual steps and constant follow-ups, costs add up fast. Agentic automation cuts manual effort and keeps invoices moving, even when exceptions need review.
Lower costs
Up to 80%
lower cost per invoice with automation, dropping from ~$15 manually to ~$3 with automated invoice processing.Ardent Partners, 2024Cut time
< 3 days
average invoice processing time with automation, down from 14.6 days for manual processing.VAO, 2025Reduce exceptions
59%
lower invoice exception rate, with less time spent chasing missing information and more invoices processed straight through.Ardent Partners, 2025
Ready-to-deploy invoice processing inside UiPath Solution for source-to-pay
Accelerate every step of the invoice lifecycle across the systems your teams already use.
Ready to deploy
Invoice processing, built into UiPath Solution for source-to-pay
Invoice processing uses AI agents, automation, and orchestration to accelerate every step of the invoice lifecycle across the systems your teams already use.
Accelerate receipt-to-post cycle time
Fewer handoffs, faster approvals, and quicker exception resolution help invoices move through AP faster, reducing late payments while giving teams greater control over payment timing and discount capture.
Improve accuracy, compliance, and visibility
AI reduces data-entry errors, applies rules consistently, and gives teams audit-ready ownership, SLA tracking, and insight across the invoice lifecycle.
Consolidate AP systems
UiPath orchestrates OCR, validation, matching, approvals, posting, and exceptions across legacy and modern systems.
One platform for every invoice step
Robots, IDP, AI agents, and people work together in one governed workflow.
Governance built in
Audit trails, human-in-the-loop review, durable execution, and PII controls.
Works with your existing stack
Connects with SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, Dynamics, and other ERP and AP systems.
Production-grade reliability
Invoice automation built to run reliably in production at enterprise scale.
Explore intelligent document processing
Use generative and specialized AI models to understand documents and keep document-intensive processes moving.
Case study
Canon deployed UiPath Document Understanding™ to automate invoice processing across AP. In under nine months, the team reached about 90% straight-through processing across roughly 40,000 invoices.
4,500invoices processed monthly
6,000hours saved annually
90%straight-through processing
50%reduction in development time
30%increase in data accuracy
80%decrease in yearly automation maintenance
824,000invoices processed annually
70%reduction in invoice processing time
85%accuracy in automated data collection
White paper
Exceed invoice SLAs without additional hires
Find out how agentic automation supports touchless invoice processing, improves accuracy, and helps teams stay ahead of deadlines.
Finance leaders on invoice automation
See what changes when AI agents, robots, and people run invoice work on the same governed platform.
"Agentic automation now allows us to handle complex tasks like invoice dispute investigations, which wasn't possible with traditional RPA. Using agentic orchestration, we can automate and manage end-to-end processes across applications and provide meaningful resolutions. This makes work more flexible compared to rigid, structured automation."
Guide
AI is transforming how organizations understand and manage documents
Intelligent document processing (IDP) puts generative and specialized AI to work to keep document-intensive processes flowing.
Prebuilt invoice automations help finance teams move faster
Visit UiPath Marketplace to find automations and connectors for common invoice workflows, from matching and validation to document processing.
Marketplace component
3-way match
Automate 3-way matching to help authorize vendor payments.
Marketplace component
2-way match invoice processing for SAP
Enable straight-through vendor invoice processing with Document Understanding.
Marketplace component
Invoices - Shipping
Process and validate shipping invoices with a machine learning model.
Invoice automation FAQs
Common questions about invoice automation, how automated invoice processing handles exceptions, and where agentic AI fits in.
Invoice automation uses software to handle manual, rules-based invoice processing work, including invoice capture, data extraction, purchase order (PO) and contract validation, exception routing, approvals, ERP posting, and payment preparation. Modern invoice automation combines AI, document processing, workflow automation, and human review to help teams process invoices faster (and with fewer manual touches).
Exceptions are where most manual AP effort happens: missing PO references, line-item mismatches, tax discrepancies, supplier questions, or approval delays. Automated invoice processing can identify the issue, gather context from business systems, recommend the next action, and either resolve the exception within policy or route it to the right person for review. Each step can be logged for auditability.
Accounts payable (AP) automation is the broader category covering activities such as vendor onboarding, invoice processing, payment runs, reconciliation, and reporting. Invoice processing automation focuses specifically on the invoice lifecycle, from intake and validation through approval, exception handling, and ERP posting. UiPath delivers both: a dedicated invoice automation workflow and the broader accounts payable automation built on the same platform.
AI improves invoice processing accuracy in three key ways. Intelligent document processing (IDP) extracts header and line-item data across email, portals, PDFs, and scans with higher accuracy than legacy optical character recognition (OCR). AI agents validate fields against POs, contracts, and tolerances to help catch issues earlier. And agentic orchestration carries context through every step, so teams do not have to rework the same issue downstream.
No. UiPath is additive. It orchestrates across your existing ERP (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, Microsoft Dynamics, etc.) and AP systems and supplier portals. It updates records, reconciles data, generates audit trails, and routes exceptions to people. Finance teams deploy without rearchitecting their systems of record.
Customers report cost-per-invoice dropping from around $15 manually to roughly $3 with automation (Ardent Partners, 2024), and cycle time falling from 14.6 days to under 3 days (VAO, 2025). Ardent also reports a 59% lower exception rate among automated invoice operations.
Many enterprises can see measurable ROI in early releases, with cumulative gains as more exception cases are added to the workflow.