Bills

Capture the bill. Approve before it posts.

Ask Alfred™ captures supplier bills for review. Approve, query or send to Govern. Recurring costs surface in Vendors; odd ones land in Inbox.

Hartwell Joinery Ltd
Bills · awaiting approval
3 to review
Pending approval
£3,740
Your nod
Timber Merchant · oak
Captured · due 20 Mar
£2,150
Software Co · monthly
Recurring · renews soon
£89
Site hire · scaffold
Needs coding · Inbox
£1,501

Next: approve timber bill · or send to Govern

Capture · approve · recurring costs · trail for Govern
Bill captureApproval queueRecurring Human review
The bill pile

PDFs in email. Approvals in chats. Coding left for Friday.

Supplier invoices land everywhere. Recurring costs renew quietly. Nobody is sure what was approved before it hit the books.

Scattered captures

Bills sit in inboxes, WhatsApp and a drawer. The books get a half-complete list at month-end.

?Silent renewals

Subscriptions and standing costs renew without a glance. Vendors never surfaces the pattern in time.

!Thin approval trail

When the accountant asks who signed off a bill, the answer is a shrug.

How Bills works

Three steps.
Capture, approve, trail.

Bring bills in through Connect or Vault. Approve here, or escalate via Govern. Odd coding lands in Inbox.

1Capture the bill

Upload PDFs, photos or supplier lists as Excel, CSV or PDF. Alfred only reads what you give him.

2Review the queue

See amount, supplier and suggested coding. Approve, query or send regulated items to Govern.

3Keep the trail

Approved bills move on with a clear who-and-when. Recurring costs feed Vendors. Jump to Financials for AP ageing. Regulated calls still need a named professional.

Why it pays off

Bills with a human attached.

The same clear bill approval large firms take for granted, kept next to Vendors, Inbox, Govern and Financials.

Time backOne queue, not five inboxes

Every captured bill lands for review, so month-end is approval, not a scavenger hunt.

AssuranceA real accountant signs off

Every regulated call is reviewed and certified by a qualified professional. Alfred never gives regulated advice.

AccurateApprove before it posts

Query the coding, send it back, or approve as-is. Nothing silent and irreversible.

Secure and compliantUK GDPR by design, encrypted

Built for UK GDPR with per-client isolation, encryption throughout, and your data not used to train our models. Database in London (eu-west-2); documents in EU-region storage.

Cost-effectiveBig-firm thinking, small-firm price

Bills with Vendors, Inbox, Financials and Pulse™ in the same subscription. Or sponsored by your accountant.

Peace of mindRenewals you can see

Recurring costs surface in Vendors before they quietly renew, so surprises shrink.

What Bills shows

Capture, approve, trail you can trust.

Bills is the purchase-side approval layer. Pair it with Vendors, Inbox, Govern, Vault for source docs, and Financials for AP ageing.

Security: how we protect your data.

Bill capture from PDF, photo or uploadCapture
Approval queue with suggested codingApprove
Recurring costs that feed VendorsRecurring
Optional hand-off to Govern for named sign-offGovern
Richer payment scheduling coming soonSoon
For business owners

The morning the bill pile is already sorted.

  • See captured bills awaiting your approval in one queue.
  • Spot recurring renewals before they quietly renew.
  • Approve, query or send regulated items to Govern.
  • Keep source PDFs in Vault next to the approval trail.
  • Upload bills now; add live connections when they ship.
For accountants

Client creditors, already queued.

  • Less time rebuilding AP lists from email PDFs.
  • Pending approvals surface for a client conversation.
  • Same numbers feed Vendors, Inbox and Financials.
  • Your certification still sits in Govern.
  • See the accountants deep dive for the practice channel.

You set the client price and keep the margin. We charge you a simple wholesale fee per client.

Built on trust

Built so you can trust the numbers.

Security is the foundation, not a setting. Your data stays yours, the work is always traceable, and a qualified human owns every regulated decision. Read our security overview.

You choose what to share

You upload only the documents you want Alfred to see. He reads them, never changes them, and acts only on what you approve.

EU-region storage, encrypted

Client data in isolated schemas (London database, EU document storage), encrypted in transit and at rest. Your data is not used to train our models.

Named human sign-off

Regulated work is reviewed and certified by a qualified accountant who stands behind it.

Full audit trail

Every figure and every approval is logged and timestamped, ready for HMRC or your insurer.

Vetted partners only

Any insurance or finance introduction goes to FCA-authorised firms. Alfred never sells.

ISO 27001 targetedSOC 2 Type II in progressUK GDPR alignedCyber Essentials plannedFCA-authorised partnersEU region hosting
Pricing

Fair and square.

See Bills on your numbers for nothing. Pay only when it is clearly worth it.

Free look
£0

See your first bill queue for nothing.

  • Upload supplier bills or an AP list
  • See capture and approval in one view
  • No card, no commitment
Free at launch
Most popular Bills / Core
£49/month

Bills plus the full Ask Alfred™ stack.

  • Bill capture and approval workflow
  • Recurring costs that feed Vendors
  • Inbox, Financials, YearReady™, Pulse™, Ask, Connect and Vault
  • Live book connections when they ship
Available at launch
Sponsored
£0 to you

Included by your accountant, their name on it.

  • Your accountant includes it in their fee
  • No accountant? We match you with a vetted one
  • Everything in Bills, plus their sign-off
Available at launch
Word from the high street

Built for the van, the counter and the back office.

"I used to approve bills in email threads. Now every capture sits in Bills until I say yes."
ST
Sarah TJoinery firm · Cambridge
"Client supplier bills arrive captured with coding. My team confirms the easy ones. Odd ones go to Govern."
RJ
R. Jackson FCCAAccountancy practice · Norfolk
"Recurring software costs finally sat next to one-off hire. Renewals stopped surprising me."
DP
Dev PConvenience stores · Leicester

Illustrative, for a product going live. Real names and firms to follow.

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