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Ready to get more out of your Sage Intacct software? Explore Tipalti’s custom-built AP automation integration and transform your payables strategy.
AP automation software provides businesses with very significant cost savings. It adds needed functionality and financial controls. Which AP automation solutions are Sage Intacct customers choosing in 2025 for Sage Intacct AP automation? Learn about some top-rated third-party Intacct ERP integrations for streamlining AP processes and paying invoices.
AP Automation for Sage Intacct
With an integrated AP automation app, Sage Intacct ERP accounting software users:
- Reduce supplier onboarding and accounts payable invoice processing to payments time by 80%
- Streamline AP workflows, including electronic purchase order and receiving report matching
- Gain efficiency with RPA (robotic process automation) and artificial intelligence
- Limit the need for additional hiring
- Cut business costs with best spend management software features
When you automate accounts payable with AP automation for Intacct, your business will improve internal controls and reduce fraud risk and payment errors.
What is the Sage Intacct Accounting System?
Sage Intacct is an accounting system targeting fast-growing companies that can scale up their accounting software as their revenue grows. The product is designed for small businesses (with up to 500 employees) and medium-sized business users. Some Sage Intacct users are single-entity businesses. Other Sage Intacct users are multi-entity businesses requiring consolidations of financial statements. Sage Intacct competitors include QuickBooks Online and NetSuite.
The AICPA, which is the professional trade organization for licensed CPAs in the United States, recommends using Sage Intacct as your ERP accounting system. Sage Intacct is AICPA’s only preferred financial management solution.
Going beyond Sage Intacct, the AICPA believes that CPAs and business financial executives should use AI (artificial intelligence) to improve their accounting efficiency, including the application of AI to AP automation. Their advice also applies to Chartered Professional Accountants in Canada.
Why Should Financial Management Choose an AP Automation Solution?
With any standard manual accounts payable ERP system software module, your finance team may experience:
• Many frustrations
• Longer accounts payable process cycles
• Manual payment processes that aren’t personalized to customer needs
• Paper invoices, purchase orders, and receiving reports
• Manual data entry inaccuracies
• Inadequate real-time vendor and invoicing verification leading to potential fraud
• Missing supplier W-9 tax forms
• Approver delays
How does an 80% reduction in accounts payable workload translate to cost savings in processing an accounts payable invoice?
According to a CFO Magazine article, Accounts Payable Cost is the “total cost of processing accounts payable per invoice.” In February 2018, the top-ranked 25% of organizations surveyed by APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center) had an AP invoice processing cost of US$2.07 or less. This benchmark metric was US$5.83 for median performers and US$10.00 or more for the bottom performers. The CFO article cautions that Accounts Payable Cost varies depending on the industry and other factors. AP automation software reduces invoice processing costs.
Sage AP automation with third-party add-on software overcomes accounting and financial management frustrations. With a Sage Intacct-integrated AP automation solution, your business can maximize investment in Sage Intacct accounting software. Some of the best AP automation solutions for Sage Intacct follow.
Top AP Automation Solutions for Sage Intacct
Top AP automation solutions for Sage Intacct include:
- Tipalti
- Plooto
- Quadient AP (fka Beanworks)
- Stampli
- Concur
- REPAY
Tipalti
Overview
Tipalti provides AP automation software, targeting mid-market companies, smaller companies with exceptional growth potential, and enterprise companies. Tipalti is scalable for business growth. Other Tipalti finance automation products are its advanced FX solutions, Tipalti Multi-FX and Tipalti FX Hedging, mass payments automation, employee Expenses automation, and Procurement automation software for purchase requisition and PO management.
Besides Sage Intacct accounting software, Tipalti has ERP integration with many brands and types of ERP systems and accounting software.
Features
- Self-service supplier onboarding with supplier tax form collection and payment information
- Supplier validation and invoice receipt and payment status communication
- Invoice data capture through OCR scanning, email, or upload
- Automated invoice processing, including 2 or 3-way matching, error detection, automated GL coding using AI, and guided approvals
- Global payments, with a choice of available payment methods and automated global regulatory compliance
- Automatic payment reconciliation for large batches
- Tipalti AIâ„ and digital assistant, Ask Tipalti AIâ„ , with generative and other AI capabilities to reach informed decisions
Self-Service Supplier Onboarding with Payment Method Choices
Tipalti starts the purchase-to-pay cycle with self-service supplier onboarding through a Supplier Hub. Tipalti offers real-time supplier tax verification that verifies the taxpayer identification number (TIN).
Vendors choose how they want you to pay them through Tipalti AP automation for Sage Intacct. Their payment automation choices include a bank account transfer EFT, PayPal, paper checks, global ACH, wire transfers, or prepaid debit cards in the preferred currency with cross-border remittance. This supplier onboarding process shifts some of your organization’s accounts payable process time to vendors and increases information accuracy.
Invoice Processing Automation
Tipalti automates the entire AP process, including invoice data capture, PO matching, and routing for approval workflows. The Tipalti Expenses product adds employee expense management. The Tipalti automation platform provides automatic near real-time payment reconciliation and AP reporting that:
- Gives more visibility for cash management sooner
- Improves financial statement accuracy
- Helps you close the books earlier on a monthly basis and at year-end
- Gives the finance and accounting team more time for financial planning & analysis (FP&A), strategy, and decision support
Supplier Management, including Automatic Payment Status
Tipalti excels at supplier management. That’s important to your supply chain. In the Supplier Hub, vendors have complete visibility of invoices, payment statuses, and any problems that could delay payment.
Financial Controls
Tipalti for Sage Intacct automation offers an audit trail. Automatic processes improve internal controls, help you avoid fraud, and save your company money. They also increase cash flow requirements visibility.
Pricing
Tipalti uses a SaaS subscription-based pricing model that grows with your business needs.
To upgrade from the basic platform, a business can add advanced functionality and users when needed. Contact Tipalti Sales for a custom quote.
Plooto
Overview
Plooto’s automation solutions integrate with Sage Intacct. The company offers accounts payable and accounts receivable automation as one software product.
Features
- Accounts payable and accounts receivable automation
- Centralized hub
- Currency exchange rate calculator for international payments
- Import or email invoices for Plooto Capture
- Exporting invoices and syncing with accounting software for invoice processing and payment
- Automatic reconciliation
The Plooto Pro plan enables features for complex approvals and controls to reduce fraud and human errors.
Plooto’s payment methods for accounts payable include:
- Physical check
- Debit card
- Credit card
- EFTs
- Instant transfer
Pricing
Plooto is a Canadian company. Its pricing plans cover accounts payable and accounts receivable automation. SaaS subscription plans include:
- Go Plan – no SaaS plan fee or add-ons
- Grow Plan – $27/month – Unlimited free domestic transactions
- Pro Plan – ERP integration plan fee is approximately $199 per month + $49 per approver per month plus + $59 per month for unlimited domestic transactions add-on plus $3.00 per CRA payment
Quadient AP (fka Beanworks)
Overview
Quadient AP (formerly Beanworks) is a cloud-based, end-to-end accounts payable automation software product that integrates with Sage Intacct.
Features
- Use multiple languages and currencies for invoice coding
- Match imported payments with invoices in multiple formats
- Import any accounts payable list
- Process paperless invoices with matching and approvals and make payments
- Review dashboards for visibility
Quadient AP captures invoice data via electronic receipt or scanning. It matches invoices with purchase orders and receiving reports. Approvers can approve invoices from the mobile app or online. Quadiet AP is used to pay approved vendor invoices. It gives real-time dashboards visibility into accounts payable and spending.
Pricing
Quadient AP pricing uses customized quotes for each product.
Does your company optimize Sage Intacct accounts payable?
Leverage AP automation software with self-service supplier onboarding, AI-driven invoice processing, global payments, real-time reconciliation, and easy tax compliance reporting.
Stampli
Overview
Stampli is an accounts payable automation solution for companies of all sizes with integration to Sage Intacct and Sage Intacct Construction. Its software automation products include AP Automation, Stampli Direct Pay, and Vendor Engagement for advanced vendor management.
Features
- Vendor Portal
- Paperless automated invoice processing, including invoice data capture, 3-way matching, approval process, and payments
- Dynamic, predefined approval workflows with automatic reminders
- Billy the Bot and AI OCR
- Available from any device
Stampli performs paperless invoice automation from invoice receipt and invoice capture to PO matching and receiver matching, approval, and payment. It eliminates manual data processing and streamlines workflows for the AP team.
Pricing
Stampli provides customized pricing with SaaS subscription billing.
Concur
Overview
Concur offers an AP automation software product, Concur Invoice, which integrates with Sage Intacct. Concur Invoice covers the entire invoice-to-pay cycle. It eliminates time-consuming manual data entry to reduce invoice processing time and helps detect invoice and payment errors. Concur Invoice provides spend visibility.
Features
- Paperless accounts payable automation system
- Invoice management
- Automated invoice processing
- Three-way match with purchase order and receiving data
- Approvals workflow
- Invoice payments in batches
- Syncs with Sage Intacct
Concur payment methods include:
- ACH
- eCheck
- Paper check
- Virtual card
Pricing
Concur pricing is by custom quote.
REPAY
Overview
REPAY is a simple payment processing system for small and growing businesses to pay supplier invoices and make other real-time electronic payments. Its solutions for inbound and outbound payments include Vendor Payment automation for accounts payable.
REPAY payment methods include enhanced ACH and virtual cards (EFTs) instead of paper checks.
Features
- Vendor onboarding with a choice of preferred payment method
- Integrates and syncs with your Sage Intacct accounting software
- Stores and retrieves all payment information at REPAY’s end
- Simplifies reconciliation
Pricing
REPAY pricing is by quote and includes transaction fees.
Which AP Automation Integration Suits Your Business Needs?
To choose the best AP automation integration for your business, have your business teams list the desired functionality. Include features that are necessary and more features that are desirable. Then, list all third-party apps, current software, and legacy systems relating to payables to see what business process software needs to be enhanced through add-on integration or replacement.
Considerations include:
- Features comparison
- Customer satisfaction, retention, and customer support ratings
- Software vendor plans for continuing software feature updates
- Scalability for growth
- Enterprise-grade security
A robust third-party Sage AP automation add-on app is available directly from Tipalti or the Sage Intacct Marketplace.
When evaluating and selecting the right AP automation software, consider:
- The highest priority needs for your business
- Built-in best practices for streamlined business process workflow functionality gaps and inefficiencies that a standard ERP system presents to your finance teams.
The Tipalti add-in app uses an Intacct API connection between Sage Intacct and Tipalti. It’s seamlessly integrated cloud based software, allowing you to work remotely or from your office anytime using Sage Intacct.
Tipalti’s invoice processing and payment cost calculator shows that choosing Tipalti for Sage Intacct accounts payable automation could pay for itself. For a demo and more information about Tipalti’s automation software products, get started.
