Lightyear Accounts
Payable Automation

Flexible, customisable AP automation software that helps your entire school work more efficiently and cost effectively.  

Famed for ease of use, Lightyear allows purchase orders and invoices to be managed in seconds, saving your school 80% on costs and time. 

A glance at some of our features:

 
Line Item Data Extraction

Automated purchase order management

Automated price checking & duplicate flagging

Multi-tiered approval workflows

Automated statement reconciliations

Cloud secure statement & archive

Why Lightyear for your finance function?

Set purchase order limits, automatically route approvals to the desired person and easily adapt controls to suit the time of year or cash flow state.

Digital copies of every AP document in just a few clicks so no time is wasted searching for or processing invoices by hand.

The burden of typing in purchase order numbers, balances and due dates is gone. Lightyear automatically extracts invoice data and offers it to the finance team for analysis.

Remove the risk of data errors, duplicate payments and incorrect or fraudulent invoice payments with automated bank detail checking and duplicate flagging.

Easily manage your school's reporting structures, however complex, with automated coding and departmental tracking. Easily transfer data to passFINANCE.

The benefits of Lightyear for your school

Free teachers from ordering confusion with pre-defined processes and status updates on their requests. 

With thousands of hours of manual labour saved and incorrect payments avoided, your school can save money where it matters. 

Get the insights needed depending on role and instantly tell how your school is performing in terms of cash flow and departmental spending. 

With manual, repetitive tasks eliminated, staff can focus on more student-facing activities and projects while exploring new ways to run their schools more strategically and profitably.

5* rated app

"We have much greater credibility on invoices in that we know why things haven't been paid, we have proof as to what happened and why, and we can communicate this easily with teachers."  

Lesley – Finance Manager | ESMS 

Book a call with Lightyear

Take just 30 minutes to discover more about how Lightyear works alongside WCBS to help your school save 80% on costs and time.