When purchase orders are not created, bills must be entered manually.
These types of bills often don't require line item data as they represesent
expense items instead of inventory. SimpleIndex is able to capture the Vendor, Date,
Invoice Number and Amount fields using its OCR pattern matching
features. The expense account is linked to the Vendor in a lookup table (e.g. Verizon would
always be a "Telecommunications" expense). Once all the data is captured, SimpleQB
is used to import the transactions into QuickBooks.
This video demonstrates how to use SimpleQB to automatically
receive and reconcile bills that have corresponding purchase orders
in QuickBooks. When invoices are received against purchase orders, it is only necessary
to know the PO Number in order to complete the transaction. Line item data is copied
automatically from the PO. When processing is complete, all the purchase orders are marked
as received and entries in the Bills section are present for each invoice.
SimpleQB was designed to work with any invoice OCR solution,
not just SimpleIndex. Many (much more expensive) solutions are able to capture all of the data
on an invoice, including addresses and line items. This video shows how SimpleQB
can be used with ABBYY FlexiCapture
to OCR both invoice header and line item details into QuickBooks.