What an invoice actually costs to process.
The numbers behind our ROI calculator come from published 2026 benchmarks. Here's the short version — and the full sourced report.
Keyed by hand, sorted, archived, routed.
Still an unstructured image — staff verify and correct.
Flows into the host; staff handle exceptions only.
The lever is the format jump: move a supplier from paper/PDF to a structured feed and each invoice drops toward ~$1 to process. PunchProxy is the on-ramp that makes that jump for suppliers who can only send a flat file or EDI 810 — it is not OCR or a full AP suite.
Comparative economics of invoice processing
Loaded labor, throughput, per-format cost, hospitality case studies, and the status-quo penalty — fully cited (Ardent/APQC, ATO/Deloitte, Lido, DocuClipper, and others).
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