
Vendors ask where their invoice is; the bot answers, and escalates the ones that need a human.
A conversational agent for Procure-to-Pay — vendor invoice status and issue handling, on demand.
due, blocked, paid, or debit balance — on request
emails finance staff the moment an invoice issue is flagged
walks vendors & staff through invoice issues, e.g. payment disputes
handles free text, typos and phrasing without a rigid form
“Where is my invoice?” is the highest-volume question an accounts payable team receives, and answering it is pure lookup — due, blocked, paid, or sitting against a debit balance. It is also asked by email, at any hour, in whatever phrasing the vendor chose.
The Finance Bot answers it on request, in natural language, without a rigid form and without the vendor needing a portal login they will forget.
An invoice with a genuine problem does not want an explanation, it wants a person. When the bot identifies an issue, it emails the relevant finance staff immediately with the context attached, so the exception starts moving instead of waiting for the next follow-up.
Payment disputes and other Procure-to-Pay issues are walked through step by step, for vendors and internal staff alike, so the common cases resolve without a human and the uncommon ones arrive already framed.
Vendor queries arrive outside your working hours and in your vendors' own phrasing, typos included. The bot handles free text rather than requiring a structured request, and covers the hours your team does not.
Where it cannot help, it hands over to a person rather than looping — the same principle behind every agent we build.
The bot answers from your Procure-to-Pay records, so its scope is exactly what those records contain: invoice state, the reason for a block, the payment run an item is sitting in. Anything outside that — a commitment about when a disputed invoice will now be paid, a change to terms — is a decision a person makes, and the bot says so rather than guessing on the finance team’s behalf.
That boundary is also what makes it safe to give vendors. A vendor sees the status of their own invoices and nothing else, and the bot has no path to commit the business to anything. The valuable output is a vendor who stops emailing and a finance team who hears only about the exceptions.
The status of their invoice — whether it is due, blocked, paid, or held against a debit balance — on request, and it will walk them through Procure-to-Pay issues such as payment disputes.
The bot emails the relevant finance staff the moment an issue is flagged, with the context attached, so the exception is picked up by a person rather than waiting for the vendor to chase again.
No. It handles free text, including typos and unconventional phrasing, so vendors can ask the way they would ask a person.