Bookkeeping firm · mixed monthly batch
A two-bookkeeper Cork practice closes 80 docs from one client folder every month-end. The bookkeeper wants the run done by Wednesday lunchtime so Friday's payroll work has air.
What enters
80 PDFs and JPGs, mixed: 65 standard supplier invoices (UK + IE + EU including a few GBP and EUR-equivalent multi-currency), 5 credit notes, 3 supplier statements (not invoices), 2 multi-invoice PDFs, 1 non-invoice attachment (a courier delivery slip), 1 mixed-VAT invoice (23% + 13.5% same supplier), 1 cross-border reverse-charge invoice from a UK SaaS vendor.
What the customer sees
A pre-mapped CSV for Sage Business Cloud Accounting (vendor / invoice number / date / net / VAT-23 / VAT-13.5 / VAT-0 / total / notes), formatted to match Sage's Quick-Entry purchases import schema for one-paste posting. Plus a quarantine list with one-line re-submit reasons. Bookkeeper splits the 2 multi-invoice PDFs in Acrobat (yields fresh invoices), drops the splits back. Foreign-currency invoices (the GBP rows in this batch) come out on a separate companion CSV with EUR equivalents shown for reference — Sage Quick-Entry doesn't accept foreign-currency rows, so the bookkeeper enters those manually using our companion sheet as the data crib. End state: clean EUR rows in Sage on the same morning; FX rows posted manually by lunch.
Honest caveats. Auto Plus does not check whether credit notes are correct — only that they extracted cleanly. Sage Quick-Entry CSV import does not accept foreign-currency rows (Sage IE published limitation); we ship those as a companion crib for manual entry rather than auto-import. Pipeline does not chase missing receipts. Multi-invoice-in-one-PDF splitter not yet shipped — those bounce with a "split + re-upload" reason. Duplicate-invoice fingerprinting also not yet shipped — duplicates currently pass through if extracted cleanly; bookkeeper de-dupes at paste-time.
Illustrative scenario — not a customer measurement. Time-saved figures published once we have a reference customer running this workflow.