Build your own PayFlow

AmaraHead of Finance · Backbone IT · direct message

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Amara · Finance16:05

You know PayFlow now. Let's see if you can build a better one!

Amara · Finance16:05

Your agent works without any AI. It only follows the rules you give it, step by step, like a small program. You decide what it checks and up to which amount it pays on its own. Everything else goes to a person.

Amara · Finance16:06

Then test it on twelve invoices from my desk. Some of them are fake. Try to stop every fake invoice and still let your agent do as much work as possible.

Your agent

Choose what your agent checks.
Set the payment limit.
Run your agent on twelve invoices and look at the three numbers.
Change your agent until it loses no money and still does a lot of the work.

1 · What does your agent check?

If one of these checks finds a problem, your agent asks a person. A person in Finance checks about 10 invoices in 1 h and finds every problem.

The orderYour agent always compares the invoice with the order, like PayFlow. No order, no payment.The delivery noteYour agent checks if everything on the invoice really arrived.The list of paid invoicesYour agent checks if this invoice was already paid.The bank detailsYour agent compares the bank details with earlier payments to the same supplier.

2 · Up to which amount does it pay on its own?

Your agent pays on its own below €5,000

€0: a person checks every invoice.€10,000: your agent pays almost everything on its own.

3 · Test your agent

Think about it: what made the bigger difference for your agent, the payment limit or the checks? And who in Finance should decide about them?