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Auto-Invoice is a practical invoice intake and payment schedule automation tool designed for businesses that receive regular invoices from freelancers, contractors, casual staff, or event workers.

Instead of manually opening emails, downloading invoice attachments, checking hours, copying totals into spreadsheets, and building payment schedules by hand, the system turns incoming invoice files into structured records ready for review.

The app is built around a simple employer-first workflow: invoices arrive in a dedicated Gmail inbox, the system checks unread emails, extracts supported invoice attachments, reads the invoice data, applies validation checks, and prepares the information for human approval.

This is not designed to remove human oversight. Payments are too important for blind automation. The system keeps a human in control while removing the repetitive admin that slows the process down.

The Problem & Solution

The problem

Event companies, production teams, and small businesses pay contractors who submit expenses and invoices by email. Every pay cycle, someone sits down with Gmail and a spreadsheet, copying numbers, matching names, and building a payment schedule by hand. It's slow, error-prone, and scales badly with headcount.

What we built

Auto-Invoice watches a dedicated Gmail inbox, parses incoming invoice and expense emails from contractors, extracts the figures, and produces a clean payment schedule ready for the finance team. No manual copy-paste. No lost emails. Pay cycle goes from hours to minutes.

What the system does

How it works

1

Contractors email the app's Gmail

Freelancers and contractors send expenses/invoices to a dedicated inbox.

2

The app harvests each message

Extracts amount, date, sender, and any reference info from invoice files.

3

Schedule is built automatically

De-duplicated, totalled, grouped by payee with validation checks.

4

Finance gets a ready-to-pay file

CSV/export in whatever format your payment run expects.

Demo

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demo video / product screenshot

Why businesses need invoice automation

Many small businesses still manage contractor invoices manually — checking email inboxes, opening spreadsheet attachments, reviewing hours worked, confirming rates, copying totals into Excel, and creating a payment schedule for each pay run.

For event companies, production teams, agencies, and businesses using freelance or casual workers, this process can quickly become slow and error-prone. Even when workers use a standard invoice template, real-world invoices rarely arrive perfectly. Files may be renamed, slightly edited, filled in differently, or sent with missing information.

Auto-Invoice is an invoice automation system built to reduce that manual workload. It supports a dedicated Gmail inbox for invoice collection, processes unread emails with supported invoice attachments, extracts invoice information, validates the data, and stores each invoice in a simple review dashboard.

The review process is intentionally human-led. Every invoice starts as needing review. The user can check the extracted details, see any validation warnings, approve correct invoices, reject invalid ones, and export only approved invoices into a payment schedule.

Want to reduce repetitive admin in your business?

Book a free automation call and we'll look at where your current process is costing time, creating errors, or slowing your team down.

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