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Receipts, Vendor Invoices & Supporting Documents

Every bill should be able to show its paperwork. Kantivo keeps scanned receipts and supplier invoices attached to the records they support, opens them in place, and checks that a vendor payment is fully applied before it is saved.

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Upload the receipt. The details fill themselves in.

Watch a hardware-store receipt become a transaction. The AI extracts the vendor, amount, date and each line item, proposes the expense account and payment card, and shows its confidence. One review, one click, and the expense is recorded.

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Paperwork Where the Transaction Is

When an auditor, a partner or a tax preparer asks "what is this bill for?", the answer should be one click away rather than in a downloads folder. Kantivo stores each scanned document against its vendor and, once it becomes a bill, against that bill too. You can preview it on screen, take it off a bill it was attached to by mistake, and attach it somewhere else, without ever losing the original scan.

1

Scan From the Vendor

On a vendor's Documents tab, choose Scan Receipt or Scan Invoice and pick the file.

2

Review the Extraction

Kantivo Core AI reads the vendor, date, amounts and line items, plus the printed invoice or receipt number.

3

Create the Bill

The supplier's own invoice number becomes the bill number, and the scan stays attached.

4

Pay It Cleanly

The payment screen will not save until every dollar is applied to a bill.

👁️ Preview Without Downloading

A View button opens the file in an overlay inside Kantivo.

  • Images shown at full size, PDFs in an embedded viewer
  • Download from the overlay when you need a local copy
  • Available wherever a document shows a View button, including a bill's attached documents

🔢 The Supplier's Number, Not a Placeholder

The review window shows an editable Invoice / Receipt # field filled from the scan.

  • Correct a misread before you post
  • Used as the bill number on a vendor invoice
  • Saved as the reference number on a cash receipt
  • A repeated number gets a suffix (for example -2) rather than failing; with no number at all, Kantivo assigns an RCP- number

📂 Attach, Detach, Re-Attach

A bill's detail page lists every attached document with its file name, type, size and upload date.

  • Add further documents with Attach Document
  • Remove one that belongs elsewhere with the trash icon
  • Removing unlinks the file; the scan itself stays in the Receipt Scanner for reuse

⚖️ Payments That Fully Apply

An unapplied remainder on a vendor payment is the kind of small error that leaves payables out of agreement for months.

  • Live badge: Fully Allocated, an unallocated amount, or over-allocated
  • Save is refused while any amount is unallocated
  • Auto-Allocate (FIFO) applies the payment to the oldest open bills first

Why It Matters at Year End

Supporting documents tied to the transactions they back up shorten every review: your accountant samples a bill and sees the invoice behind it, and nobody spends an afternoon matching PDFs to ledger lines. Clean payment application keeps the accounts payable aging honest, so the balance you report is the balance you owe.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which file types can I preview?

Images and PDFs open directly in the viewer. For any other file type the viewer offers a download instead.

If I remove a document from a bill, is it deleted?

No. It is only unlinked from that bill. The original scan stays in the Receipt Scanner and can be attached to the correct bill.

Do I have to pick the vendor when scanning from a vendor's page?

No. A document scanned from a vendor's Documents tab is assigned to that vendor automatically.

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