how Dost solves it
AP automation
for food and beverages
From document chaos to clean, automated AP reconciliation
END-TO-END FINANCE AUTOMATION IN HOSPITALITY AND FOOD SERVICES
The food and beverage industry runs on tight margins, perishable products and complex supply chains. Manual financial workflows add delays, errors and compliance risks your operation can't afford. Invoice finance for hospitality businesses means keeping everything moving — from supplier payments to regulatory requirements — without friction.
Where tight margins, complex supply chains and compliance pressure make slow invoice processing a real business risk.
Perishable goods require meticulous inventory control and fast invoice reconciliation. Delays in restaurant invoice management can result in financial losses, stock write-offs and missed delivery windows. Every day a document sits unprocessed is a day closer to a problem.
With a network of suppliers and distributors — each sending documents in their own format — reconciling invoices and delivery notes manually becomes a full-time task. Without AP automation for hospitality, this complexity creates bottlenecks that slow down the whole operation
The sector operates under rigorous food safety and traceability regulations. Poor document management can lead to non-compliance, fines and reputational damage. Every invoice, delivery note and purchase order needs to be traceable — instantly.
When approvals are delayed and invoices pile up, supplier payment schedules slip. This puts pressure on supplier relationships, risks losing early payment discounts and reduces cash flow visibility — all at once.
From document chaos to clean, automated AP reconciliation
Dost extracts and processes invoice data from any format — PDFs, scans, email attachments or supplier portal uploads — with high accuracy and zero manual input. Financial teams stop entering data and start making decisions.
All financial documents — invoices, delivery notes, purchase orders — are centralised in a single platform, with real-time visibility and full traceability. Audits become straightforward instead of stressful.
Dost automates payment runs and reconciliation, ensuring suppliers are paid accurately and on time. Fewer disputes, stronger relationships and better cash flow management across the entire operation.
Dost adapts to the specific needs of food and beverage operations — from reconciling invoices with multiple product lines to handling returns, credit notes and variable pricing from different suppliers.
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.
