Charted vs. Tipalti
Charted is NetSuite-native
Achieve complete AP automation directly inside NetSuite with Charted—no bouncing between platforms, no middleware, no data synchronization to maintain. Instead, Charted powers the full AP lifecycle directly inside your ERP. Invoice capture, approvals, payments, and accruals happen where your data lives, maintaining NetSuite as your single source of truth.
Why finance teams choose Charted over Tipalti
Zero integration overhead
Charted operates entirely within NetSuite with no APls, middleware, or data synchronization to maintain. Eliminate integration complexity and the ongoing IT burden of external platforms.
One system, one workflow
Your AP team works exclusively in their familiar NetSuite environment, without having to learn new platforms or switch between systems for invoice processing, approvals, and payments.
NetSuite stays your source of truth
Your AP data is accessible within NetSuite ensuring complete visibility, audit-ready controls, and real-time financial reporting without synchronization delays.
Where Charted excels
Native architecture, zero maintenance
Charted is embedded directly within NetSuite as a certified SuiteApp, not connected through integrations. Your NetSuite Admin has no APIs to monitor, no middleware to troubleshoot, and no data synchronization issues to resolve.
Superior invoice intelligence with line-level precision
Charted Invoice AI enables accurate, straight-through processing of invoice data, mapping it directly to NetSuite segments—subsidiary, department, class, location, and custom fields. Built specifically for NetSuite data structures, our AI learns your vendors, GL logic, and coding patterns over time.
Approval workflows leverage the complete NetSuite context
Charted Approval Automation harnesses NetSuite’s complete data model to drive sophisticated routing based on subsidiaries, departments, amounts, and line-level details. Approvers act via email without requiring NetSuite licenses, and complete approval history is stored directly in NetSuite transactions for guaranteed compliance. Custom approval matrixes ensure your organization is always audit ready. International organizations with multi-currency requirements can establish approval limits in each approver’s local currency.
Portal-free vendor experience that increases adoption
Charted eliminates vendor portal fatigue with secure, branded forms that capture information directly into NetSuite, without requiring vendors to create accounts or remember passwords. This approach increases vendor participation while keeping all vendor data exclusively in your NetSuite environment, where your team already manages relationships.
Month-end close acceleration with native accrual automation
Charted Accrual Automation provides AI-powered expense accrual estimates and one-click journal entry creation directly in NetSuite. Because Charted operates natively, accrual calculations draw from up-to-date AP data without synchronization lag—delivering real-time accuracy that accelerates your close by an average of five days.
Multi-dimensional reporting in NetSuite without exports
Charted creates invoices, approvals, and payments directly within NetSuite, ensuring records and audit trails are always up to date. Finance teams can build vendor aging and accrual reports that combine open invoices, paid invoices, and pending approvals, sliced by department, subsidiary, and vendor type—without exporting to spreadsheets or having to reconcile data between Tipalti and NetSuite.
Cost savings from eliminating integration overhead
Because Charted runs entirely inside NetSuite, there are no third-party AP integrations to build, monitor, or fix. Customers tell us they’ve saved full days each month previously spent reconciling Tipalti and NetSuite data, and avoided ongoing IT spend just to keep an external AP integration stable.
Customer success story
Frequently asked questions
Charted differs from Tipalti because it runs entirely inside NetSuite as a native SuiteApp whereas Tipalti is an external platform that integrates with NetSuite.
Charted keeps your organization’s AP work inside NetSuite, where your team already lives—no system switching, no duplicate entry, and no waiting on synced status changes. Tipalti runs most AP tasks in its own platform, which can add context switching and extra steps to keep NetSuite aligned with what happened in Tipalti.
Charted stores AP data in native NetSuite objects. Tipalti stores AP data in its own platform and syncs it.
IT management is minimal with Charted because it requires no maintenance of integrations or middleware. Tipalti can require monitoring of their platform syncing, which can involve searching for individual sync records.
Charted approval workflows are embedded in NetSuite, using NetSuite segments and transaction context for routing and storing the full audit trail on the record. Tipalti runs approvals in its own platform, which typically adds system switching and requires syncing approval history back to NetSuite.
Charted supports portal-free vendor onboarding through secure, branded forms, so vendors don’t need to create accounts or manage passwords. This process reduces portal fatigue and speeds up vendor setup and updates. Tipalti relies on a vendor portal, which can add steps and slow vendor participation.
Charted enables ACH, flexible check printing, and international payments originating from the US to 150+ countries, all directly from NetSuite using your existing banks. Tipalti offers broader global payment infrastructure with 50+ methods and built-in FX and fraud controls, making it better suited for highly complex international payment needs.
Organizations choose Charted when they want NetSuite-native AP automation with minimal IT complexity and no external platforms.
A common example is a vendor aging report that shows open invoices, paid invoices, and pending approvals by department, subsidiary, and vendor type. With Charted, all those records live embedded in NetSuite, so you can build this as a standard saved search. With Tipalti, you’re reconciling data between two systems and handling sync gaps before you can trust the report.
When external application syncing fails, invoices, approvals, or payments may not appear correctly in NetSuite, forcing your team to troubleshoot integration errors before running reliable reports. Charted eliminates this problem entirely by removing the sync layer. All Charted AP records are created and updated directly within NetSuite.