If your AP team is still manually recording invoices, chasing approvals over email, or printing checks by hand, there’s a faster way to run accounts payable (AP), one that lives directly inside NetSuite. Here are eight NetSuite AP automation features from Charted already doing the heavy lifting for AP teams today.
1. AP Dashboard
Instead of building custom saved searches every time leadership asks you where things stand, pre-configured reports and dashboards give you visibility into your entire AP process in seconds.
2. Advanced Vendor Onboarding
Secure onboarding forms let vendors submit their own information, which then auto-creates or updates vendor records in NetSuite. No manual re-entry is involved, and records can be routed for approval before they go live.
3. Real-Time 3-Way Match
A line-by-line matching engine checks purchase orders, receipts, and invoices against each other as bills come in, catching price and quantity discrepancies before they become a payment problem.
4. Invoice AI
High-accuracy AI reads incoming invoices and adapts to each vendor’s format automatically. When an invoice matches an open PO exactly, Invoice AI can create the bill and send it into your existing approval workflow without anyone touching it.
5. On-Premise Check Printing
For teams that still cut checks, this replaces pre-printed check stock with a modern printing engine built specifically for NetSuite—including tracking and stop-payment support if a check needs to be cancelled.
6. Advanced Document Management
Drag-and-drop file management, split-screen views, and role-based access replace the old way of hunting for attachments buried in NetSuite records.
7. Approval Automation
Bill approvals route automatically based on your organization’s hierarchy — with configurable resubmission thresholds so a bill that changes significantly after approval (e.g. a 5%+ price increase) gets flagged for re-approval automatically.
8. Payment Automation
Vendor payment—ACH, check, or otherwise—are prepared, approved, and issued without leaving NetSuite, with bank accounts linked directly to the correct general ledger accounts for clean reconciliation.
Each of these features works on its own, but they’re designed to work together. The result: an invoice that can be scanned, matched, approved, and paid without a single manual handoff.
Want to see which ones would move the needle most for your team? Get a walkthrough of Charted AP Automation Suite. Or better yet, schedule a demo today.
