--- title: Blog • Automating AP Processing simply • PacSol UK description: Starting to automate your AP process can take a matter of days, not months, bringing benefits to your business immediately. image: https://www.pacsol.co.uk/hubfs/Category%20icons/workflow.png --- [Skip to content](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/blog/automating-ap-processing#main-content) [![PacSol UK Document Management Software](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/PacSol%20Logos/PacSol_Logo_tagline_gadget_registered_96dpi.png?width=1280&height=255&name=PacSol_Logo_tagline_gadget_registered_96dpi.png)](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/) - [Home](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/) - Solutions Show submenu for Solutions - [Document Capture](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/document-capture) - [Document Management](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/document-management) - [Business Process Automation](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/business-process-automation) - [Email Processing](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/email-processing) - [Forms Processing](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/forms-processing) - [Sectors](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/sectors) - [Services](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/services) - [Support](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/pacsol-support) - [Contact](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/contact) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Home](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/) - Solutions Show submenu for Solutions - [Document Capture](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/document-capture) - [Document Management](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/document-management) - [Business Process Automation](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/business-process-automation) - [Email Processing](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/email-processing) - [Forms Processing](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/forms-processing) - [Sectors](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/sectors) - [Services](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/services) - [Support](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/pacsol-support) - [Contact](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/contact) - [Return to Blog Listings](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/blog) [Return to Blog Listings](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/blog) Mar 29, 2023 10:00:00 AM # Automating AP Processing: Not as complicated as you think. [Toby Gilbertson](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/blog/author/toby-gilbertson) [facebook-f icon](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://www.pacsol.co.uk/blog/automating-ap-processing) [linkedin-in icon](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.pacsol.co.uk/blog/automating-ap-processing) [envelope icon](mailto:?body=https://www.pacsol.co.uk/blog/automating-ap-processing) Starting to automate your AP (Accounts Payable) process can take a matter of days, not months, bringing benefits to your business immediately, reducing both processing time and costs.  With integration into an existing [ECM](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/solutions/document-management/) (Enterprise Content Management) platform, the flow of documents throughout your company becomes seamless and process bottlenecks disappear.  Rather than stagnating in a filing cabinet (or worse an in-tray on a desk), new documentation is instantly available, searchable, correlated to existing relationships whilst being ultimately secured both against physical loss and data theft. Even without an existing document management platform, putting in a basic but instantly beneficial AP solution takes only a matter of days and costs far less to implement than you probably think. Where an automated AP process (or indeed any data capture process with business process automation) really starts to benefit a business is when that application integrates with other critical business systems to create a holistic process that requires as little ‘hands on’ from employees as possible. - ![Document Capture](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Category%20icons/Document%20Capture.png?width=450&height=320&name=Document%20Capture.png) Capture - ![Email Processing](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Category%20icons/Email%20Processing.png?width=450&height=321&name=Email%20Processing.png) Email - ![Document Management](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Category%20icons/Document%20Management.png?width=450&height=320&name=Document%20Management.png) Management - ![Forms Processing](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Category%20icons/Forms%20Processing.png?width=450&height=321&name=Forms%20Processing.png) Forms - ![Business Process Automation](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Category%20icons/Business%20Process%20Automation.png?width=450&height=320&name=Business%20Process%20Automation.png) Workflow - ![PacSol Logo](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/PacSol%20Logos/PacSol_Logo_Square_Opaque_96dpi-1024x1024.png?width=1024&height=1024&name=PacSol_Logo_Square_Opaque_96dpi-1024x1024.png) [PacSol](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/) provides and supports a variety of AP [solutions](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/solutions/) suitable for any business size utilising IBM i and/or Windows server environments. You can benefit from our 27+ years of experience, as we partner with you to analyse the current business environment, review the requirements, identify additional areas that would immediately benefit, consider integration points with existing systems and together come up with a solution that is appropriate – not the most expensive, newest, feature laden or even the cheapest – ***the right solution for your business***. Our ultimate aim at PacSol is to help your business thrive by providing a tailored solution to achieving document autonomy across all your business processes, not just AP. Why not [talk to us today](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/contact-us/) about making improvements to your current ECM platform or implementing a new platform  – let us help you find the complete solution for your business. PacSol are providers of IBM i (as/400 / iSeries) based ECM solutions, [DocuWare](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/solutions/document-management/docuware/) ECM, [Invu](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/solutions/document-management/invu/) ECM, [IBM DataCap capture & Kofax capture](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/solutions/document-capture/) products.   --- ![Toby Gilbertson](https://www.pacsol.co.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/Staff%20Photos/TG_colour_left_close_square-1024x1024.jpg?width=150&height=150&name=TG_colour_left_close_square-1024x1024.jpg) Toby Gilbertson, Director of Operations. 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