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Lightyear

Cloud purchasing, accounts payable & expenses software for MYOB’s medium to large enterprise customers.

As a recommended app from MYOB, you can be guaranteed a high-quality and well-supported solution that integrates seamlessly with your accountancy software. Suitable for all sizes of business, Lightyear helps manage multi-currency and multi-entity with ease.

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About Lightyear

We’re an industry-leading cloud platform, providing intelligent automation solutions to finance teams. Our line-item data extraction, advanced approval workflows and automated reconciliations are what differentiate us.

We provide a reliable, secure, stress-free solution that eliminates human error, so our customers can confidently move forward with their business goals.

With unbeatable technical support, Partnership Programs & referral schemes, plus our 30-day free trial, you can be sure of a smooth transition into automated success.

Enhanced purchasing control with purchase orders

Gain tighter control on business spending with a solution that manages your purchase orders. Provide your finance team with central access and a clearer overview of outgoings to optimise cash flow.

  • Create detailed purchase orders for services and/or products from your supplier's item catalogue

  • Route purchase orders to the correct approver, seamlessly without user input

  • Send your purchase orders directly to your supplier's email address for one-click acceptance

  • Automated 3-way matching with purchase orders, bills and goods received notes

Next level line-item extraction from bills

Detailed data means more reliable reporting for analysis. Make better informed decisions based off accurate and trustworthy data. Manage inventory more effectively and save money with 3-way matching.

  • Instant line-item data extraction for PDF’s, scanned images, receipts, or handwritten documents

  • Automated Coding at a supplier, bill, line or product level. Set rules for keywords or product codes to drive coding rules

  • Automatic price checking against agreed supplier pricing

  • Process bills from overseas suppliers, whatever currency they use

Advanced approval workflows

Pay suppliers faster with advanced approval workflows that push invoices through the AP process quicker. Give your team visibility on the stage of invoices and the value that is payable.

  • Unlimited users and companies at no extra cost

  • Up to 8 levels of multi-tiered approvals based on supplier, keyword or value

  • Assign permissions to individual users

  • Automatic alert for duplicated bills received

  • Tag users in notes to get their attention

  • Set up Proxy Approval for when colleagues are on leave

More flexibility to manage suppliers

Reduce duplication and save time by auto-syncing supplier details between your Lightyear and MYOB solutions. Build better relationships with your suppliers and benefit from discounts or faster delivery.

  • Apply a GL code, Category, Tax Code, or Approver to an invoice based on the supplier

  • Sync suppliers from MYOB

  • Flag fraudulent bills by checking the extracted bank details on an invoice against your records

  • Automatically reconcile supplier statements in seconds

  • Automatically checks for missing bills and flags inconsistencies with a handy traffic light system

Detailed archiving & Reporting

Real-time data provides your team with accurate and reliable data which can be analysed to make better business decisions. Save money with cloud storage and instantly access any document in a few clicks.

  • 8 years bill and statement archive

  • Access all your bills instantly from anywhere in your searchable cloud archive

  • Tax office compliant

  • Real-time processing gives you powerful business insights, allowing you to forecast cash flow more accurately

  • Create custom reports and save them as favourites for future use using our search parameters

  • Report on your purchase orders to keep track of orders and spending

On-the-go mobile app

Reduce bottlenecks and payment delays when employees are out of the office. Instant access to action documents encourages fast payment turnarounds for your suppliers. Reduce to risk of documents being lost by uploading on-the-go.

  • Approve on the go with our mobile app. Get notifications and upload your receipts & bills

  • Approve, dispute, un-assign, re-assign, place on hold or reject bills while you are on the go

  • View and reply to any notes or mentions straight from the mobile app

Out of pocket expenses

Reimburse your employees faster and build better, more trustworthy relationships. Gain insights into employee spending and reduce costs through detailed reporting and analysis.

  • Unlimited users and expense reports - all within your plan

  • Upload receipts from the mobile app

  • Create expense reports to combine receipts into a single document

  • Send for approval for faster reimbursement

  • Schedule expenses for reimbursement

  • Get notifications on the status of your claim

Testimonials

I love the automation of data extraction and the built-in approval process Lightyear has to offer. It helps me to get my client's data correct, having the correct expenses and payables, and it means I can get multiple levels of approvals before the invoice hits the GL. Daniel, Accountant

Easy to integrate and setup - start to finish - 4 weeks. Great support team, very helpful and very thorough. Price is very competitive, especially the setup costs. Did what it said it could do and integrated with our systems. Julian, CFO

Since purchasing Lightyear it's made a huge difference to our business. It's hugely freed up my time by making each head of department responsible for their own invoices and the processing. It has streamlined our accounting processing as it's compatible with MYOB and our POS system, Bepoz. Yvette, Accounts and Payroll Manager


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