Accounts payable processing is one of the most labour-intensive functions in any finance team. Invoices arrive by email, post, and supplier portal — in different formats, with different layouts, requiring manual data entry into Business Central before they can be matched, approved, and posted. The process is slow, error-prone, and completely unscalable as transaction volumes grow.

Continia eliminates this bottleneck entirely. Built natively inside Business Central — not as an external integration — it reads incoming invoices automatically using AI-powered OCR, matches them to purchase orders, routes them through configurable approval workflows, and posts them without manual intervention. The same platform covers employee expense management, giving you a single solution for every document flow in the business.

Document Capture is the core AP automation component. Invoices are received by a dedicated email inbox, scanned from paper, or imported from supplier portals — and Document Capture’s AI engine reads and extracts the relevant data: supplier, invoice number, amounts, line items, and VAT. It then attempts to match each invoice against open purchase orders in Business Central before routing it for approval.

The more it processes, the smarter it gets — supplier templates are learned automatically, and recognition accuracy improves with each document. Finance teams that previously spent hours on data entry find themselves reviewing and approving, rather than keying.

Continia Expense Management extends the same document automation philosophy to employee expenses. Employees capture receipts on their mobile phone, log mileage, and submit expense reports directly from a dedicated app — with claims automatically forwarded through configurable approval chains and posted directly to Business Central upon approval.

Corporate card transactions are imported and matched automatically against submitted receipts, eliminating the reconciliation burden for both employees and finance. Every expense is categorised, coded to the right dimension, and fully auditable — providing finance complete visibility and control without administrative overhead.