how Dost solves it
AP automation
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From document chaos to clean, automated AP reconciliation
END-TO-END FINANCE AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION AND CIVIL ENGINEERING
Managing finances in construction means handling large volumes of invoices, orders and delivery notes — often without standardised formats. Most firms still rely on manual verification, cross-checking documents one by one. Without proper construction invoicing management, delays and errors put project margins directly at risk.
Where document chaos, approval bottlenecks and manual processes quietly erode project margins and financial control.
Managing thousands of invoices, purchase orders and delivery notes — each with detailed line items, variable formats and project-specific references — creates workflow inefficiencies that slow down the entire finance team.
Non-standardised submissions, missing documents and scattered storage systems make it difficult to maintain accuracy and retrieve records when needed — whether for an audit, a dispute with a subcontractor or a project budget review.
Reliance on manual construction invoice processing results in mismatched data, duplicate payments and time-consuming reconciliations. Errors in cost allocation by project or budget line can cause significant budget overruns before anyone notices.
Multi-stakeholder approval workflows — across site managers, project directors and central finance — create bottlenecks. Delayed approvals mean late supplier payments, strained relationships and, in some markets, compliance penalties. Construction compliance software should make this process faster and more transparent, not slower.
From document chaos to clean, automated AP reconciliation
Dost automates the comparison of POs, delivery notes and invoices — flagging discrepancies in quantities, prices and references automatically. This eliminates manual cross-checking and ensures every payment is based on verified data.
All financial documents are stored in a single platform, organised by project, phase or budget line. Easy to access for audits, dispute resolution or project budget reviews — with full traceability from receipt to accounting entry.
Dost's AI adapts to the variability of construction documents — from standardised supplier invoices to handwritten delivery notes. It identifies and categorises key fields across non-standardised documents without requiring manual templates per vendor.
Automated notifications and reminders keep approvals moving. Stakeholders can review and approve invoices remotely — from the site office or anywhere else — with a complete audit trail at every step.
Dost automatically assigns each invoice to the correct project, phase or budget line — so financial teams always have a real-time view of actual spend versus budget, across every active site.
Our clients live in the Microsoft universe and we were looking for an AP solution that would truly integrate — no friction, no custom development. Dost delivered exactly that. What surprised me most was the speed: very quickly we had our first clients up and running. The partner team is with you every step of the way.
At FeedbackGround we support growing companies and we’re always looking for the best tools to complete our offering. Dost fitted perfectly: AP automation ready to connect with SAP, no unnecessary complexity. It’s not just a technical integration — it’s a partner you genuinely enjoy building with.
We’ve been implementing Sage 200 for over a decade and we know where mid-sized finance teams struggle. When we discovered Dost, it was immediate: this is what our clients have been asking for without knowing it. Today we offer it as a natural part of our proposal — our clients eliminate the manual work that frustrated them most, and we close projects with a recurring revenue component we didn’t have before.
With Dost, what took 9 days is now done in just 3. Our team can focus on higher-value tasks.
The impact has been enormous. Dost helped us completely change the approval flow. The financial team is happy to no longer manage invoices manually.
What surprised me most about Dost was their ability to adapt to our specific requirements. We didn't have to change our processes; we just had to improve them.
What used to take our team an entire week now happens in minutes — and nobody needs to check anything twice.
Dost gave us something we'd never had before: clean month-end closes and data we can actually trust.
With Dost, what took 9 days is now done in just 3. Our team can focus on higher-value tasks.
The impact has been enormous. Dost helped us completely change the approval flow. The financial team is happy to no longer manage invoices manually.
What surprised me most about Dost was their ability to adapt to our specific requirements. We didn't have to change our processes; we just had to improve them.
What used to take our team an entire week now happens in minutes — and nobody needs to check anything twice.
Dost gave us something we'd never had before: clean month-end closes and data we can actually trust.
At FeedbackGround we support growing companies and we’re always looking for the best tools to complete our offering. Dost fitted perfectly: AP automation ready to connect with SAP, no unnecessary complexity. It’s not just a technical integration — it’s a partner you genuinely enjoy building with.
We’ve been implementing Sage 200 for over a decade and we know where mid-sized finance teams struggle. When we discovered Dost, it was immediate: this is what our clients have been asking for without knowing it. Today we offer it as a natural part of our proposal — our clients eliminate the manual work that frustrated them most, and we close projects with a recurring revenue component we didn’t have before.
Our clients live in the Microsoft universe and we were looking for an AP solution that would truly integrate — no friction, no custom development. Dost delivered exactly that. What surprised me most was the speed: very quickly we had our first clients up and running. The partner team is with you every step of the way.
