Purchase and sales invoices on paper, PDF or e-invoice: eConnect processes them automatically towards your connected software. We handle receipt, recognition, validation and forwarding. Your ERP or accounting package then handles posting, workflow and matching.
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Whatever the format or the channel an invoice arrives through, eConnect makes sure it reaches your financial software automatically. Paper, PDF, XML or Peppol, it does not matter.
The Intelligent Document Recogniser (IDR) from eConnect processes 100% of all submitted invoices as Recognition as a Service. Submit a PDF, scan, photo or receipt and you receive a validated e-invoice in return. No customer-operated exception queue, no templates per supplier and no supplier training. Everything runs in the cloud and is improved continuously.
The IDR combines three layers of technology. The first layer is OCR (optical character recognition) for reading documents. The second layer is an AI language model for extraction support. The third and distinguishing layer is eConnect's own interpretation, validation and learning technology: a self-learning system in which every correction is fed back as training data, so that AI recognition keeps improving. This layer determines what a document means, which fields are relevant and how data is structured. It is fully proprietary development and the source of the distinctive capability.
The AI continuously improves recognition in the background, for everyone at once. Suppliers do not need to be set up or trained.
When in doubt, the invoice is checked by the Quality Control team. That way every invoice is processed, without an exception queue on your side. Reminders and proformas are rejected automatically.
The IDR splits lines on a PDF invoice into transaction lines. With the "No Lines No Pay" guarantee you only pay for recognised lines.
100% PDF processing, within one working day. Where traditional OCR solutions put doubtful cases back in your exception queue, the AI-driven IDR processes every submitted invoice: automatically in 20 to 30 seconds on average, and when in doubt via the Quality Control team within one working day at most. No supplier training, no templates, no exceptions left with you, with the SLA guarantee that 99% of all documents are processed within 8 working hours. Read on Scan & Recognise how recognition works in detail.
Besides invoices, the IDR also processes receipts (card payments, expense claims), expense reports (mileage allowance, travel costs) and packing slips. Purchase-order processing is operational in beta. The architecture is document-type agnostic and can be extended to other document types.
IDR Professional recognises VAT bases on reverse-charged invoices and automatically assigns the correct VAT code in line with EN16931/NLCIUS. This is especially relevant in construction (reverse-charged VAT on subcontracting) and for housing associations. The IDR automatically applies AE for domestic reverse charge, K for intra-Community supply and G for export outside the EU.
Email classification automatically recognises whether an incoming email contains an invoice and routes it to the right processing flow. The system recognises more than ten document types, including invoices, proformas, receipts, packing slips, purchase orders and reminders, based on a visual fingerprint and textual checks via OCR.
Create a trusted email address per organisation for inbound invoice processing via the Email Receiver. XML invoices are processed directly via Peppol, PDFs via the IDR. With multiple administrations, the platform automatically detects which administration the invoice is intended for. A direct connection with Office 365 is available for existing mailboxes.
Processing delivers structured invoice data to your financial software. The ERP or accounting package then determines how booking proposals, workflow, matching, general ledger account, document number and posting period are applied. The Autopilot supports this for connected cloud packages, while ERP-specific setup stays within the scope of your ERP consultant.
Automatically recognises which emails contain invoices and routes them to processing.
Turns PDFs, scans and photos into validated e-invoices with AI.
Enriches invoice data with cost centres and general ledger accounts via configurable rules.
Checks every document against country-specific rules before processing and sending.
Invoice processing is not a standalone tool, but a chain of links that reinforce each other. Email classification sorts the incoming stream, Scan & Recognise turns PDFs into structured data with AI, Rule Based Enrichment adds cost centres and general ledger accounts via business rules, and validation checks that the end result is correct. Each link can be used on its own, but together they deliver the highest degree of automation.
Combine Peppol, email and upload in one automated processing flow.
Any format, any recipient: automatic conversion between UBL, CII, NLCIUS, XRechnung and Factur-X.
Link order and invoice for a closed purchase-to-pay chain with automatic matching.
Do you work with multiple channels, formats or an order process? These solutions connect directly to the processing chain, without an extra integration.
No matching customer stories.
Manual invoice processing takes time, is error-prone and does not scale with volume. Every invoice that is entered, checked and posted by hand costs several minutes on average. With a hundred invoices a week, that adds up to a substantial part of someone's working week.
Automatic invoice processing via eConnect removes most of that manual work. Whether an invoice arrives via Peppol, email or as a PDF, the platform makes sure it reaches your financial software automatically. E-invoices via Peppol are processed directly. PDF invoices are analysed, validated and converted into structured data via the IDR. The Email Receiver automatically recognises which emails contain invoices and routes them to the right processing flow. The result: less manual work, fewer errors, faster processing and a lower cost per invoice.
That creates a more stable process in which teams spend less time on exceptions and keep more room for substantive checks on supplier agreements, budgets and unusual posting patterns. This strengthens both the quality of your administration and the predictability of your month-end close.
Standard OCR reads text from a document, but does not understand what that text means. It does recognise that "1.250,00" is there, but not whether that is the invoice amount, the VAT or an item price. The Intelligent Document Recogniser (IDR) from eConnect goes three layers deep.
The first layer is OCR for reading the document. The second layer is a language model that helps with field extraction. The third and distinguishing layer is eConnect's own interpretation, validation and learning technology. This layer determines what a document means, which fields are relevant and how the data should be structured. The data is then validated automatically via KVK and the Belastingdienst. The result is not raw text, but a fully structured and validated e-invoice that can be processed directly in your accounting software. The system also learns continuously: recognition improvements are rolled out for all users at once, without you having to train suppliers.
Booking support combines several information sources to deliver structured invoice data and any enrichments. eConnect analyses the invoice data (supplier, amount, description, VAT rate) and can enrich the invoice with Rule Based Enrichment (RBE), for example with EAN numbers or cost centres that are not on the invoice.
The Autopilot connects directly with Exact Online, SnelStart, Unit4 and Business Central. The connection handles the route from invoice receipt to the package. The package then determines how booking proposals, master data, workflow and posting are applied. When confidence is high enough, a package can process automatically. When confidence is lower, the proposal can be offered for approval, depending on the setup in that package. In addition, a connection via API, SFTP and HTTPS is possible with virtually any financial system or ERP package.
In practice this lets organisations keep their existing system landscape and still set up a uniform, scalable processing process for both standard invoices and exception cases. Even when you grow to multiple administrations, control stays clear, because the same logic remains available centrally.
On the core fields (invoice number, date and amounts) the IDR scores an accuracy of more than 98%, supported by periodic sample checks from the Quality Control team. The false-positive rate (documents incorrectly forwarded as correct) is below 2%.
That accuracy is the result of a three-layer quality system. The first layer is source validation: every recognised value is checked against another source, internally in the document or externally via registers such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Tax Authority. The second layer is human review when uncertain: if the system is in doubt, the document goes to the Quality Control team for manual verification. The third layer is the self-learning feedback mechanism: corrections by the QC team are automatically processed as training data, so the same error is prevented on future documents. The IDR supports more than 200 languages, both for text recognition and for field extraction.
This combination of automatic validation and targeted human intervention means quality does not come at the expense of speed, even with large volumes of documents with widely varying layouts.
The average processing time for invoices that are processed fully automatically is 20 to 30 seconds. The total turnaround time including waiting time in the processing queue is around 3,5 minutes on average. When volume suddenly increases, capacity is scaled automatically: extra processing capacity is added so that turnaround time normalises.
If the system is in doubt about a recognised value, the task is passed to the Quality Control team for manual verification. In that case processing takes longer, but never more than one working day. The eConnect SLA guarantee is clear: 99% of all documents are processed within 8 working hours, with monthly reporting. That keeps your finance process predictable, even when volume peaks or suppliers submit documents of varying quality.
For organisations with tight close deadlines, this means turnaround time stays manageable and your planning depends less on incidental peaks or unusual document quality. That gives more calm in day-to-day operations and fewer surprises for finance and management.
The No Lines No Pay guarantee means you only pay for lines that the IDR actually recognises. A PDF invoice with five invoice lines produces five transaction lines. If the lines are not recognised, you do not pay for line recognition. The guarantee applies to all documents processed via the IDR. Recognition is improved continuously through the self-learning feedback mechanism: corrections by the Quality Control team are automatically processed as training data, so recognition improves for everyone. In practice this means accuracy only increases after go-live, without you having to do anything for it.
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