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How much time is manual document work taking from your team?
Choose your team type, monthly document volume, and minutes per document. See how many hours your team spends opening, checking, coding, attaching, and filing documents before review can start.
Your estimate
Methodology and benchmark context
External AP benchmarks show that invoice processing costs and productivity vary widely. This calculator therefore uses your own volume and time assumptions first, then shows benchmark context separately.
IOFM
inefficient AP examples include $8.78 and 15+ minutes per invoice.
APQC cost benchmark
median total AP process cost is listed at $6.00 per invoice processed.
APQC productivity benchmark
median productivity is listed at 12,000 invoices processed per AP FTE.
Billentis report
e-invoicing and automation savings are benchmark context, not Lift-specific savings.