Payables approved, on the record.

Bills read from the inbox, matched to the vendor, routed to a named approver with an expiry, paid through the tool you connect. Every bill on the record.

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Reminders

Projects

Recent

Renewals at risk

Board pack, October

Supplier terms review

Churn post mortem

Which accounts are at risk this month, and draft the outreach.

Worked for 41s · 6 steps · $0.12

Read9 accounts renewing

Read14 open tickets

Comparedusage against the last two quarters

Drafted7 messages, held 2 for a person

Nine accounts renew inside 30 days and three of them are the ones to worry about. Their ticket volume is up while usage is falling, which is the pattern that preceded every churn last quarter.

Salesforce

Zendesk2 sources, permission aware

Message Daciel

Reads the inbox and the books you already keep.

One record behind every bill

Library

Everything the work produced, with who owns it and who can read it.

AllDocumentsSheetsFrom runs

Renewal brief, Acme

Document · Priya · Deal team

Q3 pipeline review

Sheet · Marcus · Sales

Supplier terms summary

Document · Ana · Private

Churn post mortem

Document · Marcus · Everyone

Board pack, October

Deck · Priya · Leadership

Access review

Sheet · Tom · Admins

Turn the renewal brief into an email to the deal team

Renewal brief, Acme

Chat

One composer, on every surface.

Vendor reviews

Q3 onboarding

Support desk

Website rebuild

Everything the renewal touched: the thread it started in, the artifacts it produced, and who is allowed to see them.

148 artifacts

Keep

Acme renewal

Payroll migration

Hiring: sales

Said once, kept for good

Any answer becomes an artifact, with an owner and a permission.

Slack

Gmail

Outlook

Google Drive

Notion

Salesforce

HubSpot

Zendesk

Jira

GitHub

Linear

Stripe

Zoom

Asana

Airtable

Dropbox

Box

Confluence

Intercom

Google Calendar

Monday

ClickUp

Figma

DocuSign

Trello

Slack

Gmail

Outlook

Connected from day one

The systems you already run, readable in one place.

Runs this week

RunOutcome and traceWhat it producedCost

1Renewal outreachApprovedRead the nine accounts renewing this quarter in Salesforce, compared each one's usage against the last two quarters, drafted seven messages and held two back for a person. 41s, 6 steps, $0.12...7 draftsTotal$0.12Model$0.09Tools$0.03

2Invoice chaseHeldMatched fourteen overdue invoices in Stripe against the support thread for each account, then stopped before sending: two of them are in an open dispute and the policy says a person decides...14 invoicesTotal$0.08Model$0.06Tools$0.02

3Monday briefingApprovedPulled every run from the last seven days, grouped them by workspace, and wrote the briefing into the Library with the trace attached to each claim so any line can be opened...1 briefingTotal$0.21Model$0.17Tools$0.04

4Access reviewApprovedListed every connection holding a write scope, checked each against the role that owns it, and flagged three that now outlive the person who created them. Nothing was revoked without asking...3 flaggedTotal$0.05Model$0.04Tools$0.01

Runs

Every step, every tool call, every cost, and who approved it.

The bill arrives; the approver is named

A bill lands in the inbox. Daciel reads it, matches the vendor and the order, flags anything that does not match, and routes it to the person who must approve it, with an expiry. Approved bills are scheduled for payment through your accounting tool.

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Chase the 14 overdue invoices

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Summarise every ticket Acme opened

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Check which renewals slipped a quarter

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Rewrite the onboarding mail sequence

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Renewal quote for Acme, send held

Salesforce

Priya approves

RUN-926

Renewal outreach, nine accounts

Salesforce

Gmail

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Weekly briefing into the Library

Slack

RUN-924

Reconcile Stripe against the tickets

Stripe

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Tag the inbox by account

Outlook

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Pull usage for the at-risk accounts

4 steps

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Answer the RFP security section

Confluence

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Flag connections holding write scope

Waiting on Priya6 steps

Done48+⋯

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Monday briefing, written and filed

Library$0.21

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Churn post mortem for Q3

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Board pack pulled together

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Access review, three flagged

Approved$0.05

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Supplier terms summarised

Thread in #renewals

Marcus Hale9:12 AM

Acme wants a renewal quote. Their contract is up in three weeks.

Ana Duarte9:12 AM

Ticket volume has climbed every month this quarter. Read that before we price it.

Marcus Hale9:13 AM

So someone pulls usage, open tickets and the last two invoices. Three systems.

Priya Raman9:14 AM

And most of an afternoon. Hand it over and hold the send until one of us reads it.

Marcus Hale9:14 AM

@Daciel draft the Acme renewal from usage and tickets, hold the send

Two things it does on day one

Capture and match

Bills read from email and uploads, matched to vendor and order, mismatches flagged.

Get started

Conversations

7 open · 4 answered without a person

Acme CoWhere is invoice 4417?Agent

NorthwindRefund for the duplicate seatAgent

StarlightCan we move the renewal date?Held

MeridianAPI keys stopped workingWaiting

BrightlineInvoice address is wrongAgent

KestrelDo you support SSO?Agent

HalcyonExport stopped at 10k rowsWaiting

Approve and pay

Routed to a named approver with an expiry; scheduled for payment through the tool you connect.

See approvals

Renewals

9 inside 30 days · 7 drafted, 2 held

Brightline$14kDrafted

Kestrel$9kSent

Halcyon$6kHeld

What is accounts payable automation?

Accounts payable automation captures incoming bills, extracts the data, matches each to the vendor and to a purchase order, routes it for approval and schedules payment. It replaces the inbox-to-spreadsheet-to-signature chain most small businesses run, and it is judged on how few bills a person touches and how well the ones that need a person are flagged.

How AP automation works in Daciel

Capture

Bills read from the finance inbox and uploads; vendor, amount, date and line items extracted.

Match

Against the vendor record and, where you use them, purchase orders. Mismatches flagged.

Route

To a named approver by amount, vendor or category, with an expiry and an escalation.

Schedule payment

Through the accounting or payment tool you connect. Daciel does not hold funds.

Record

Bill, approval, payment and any dispute on one record, reportable.

AP automation tools, compared

Enterprise AP suites, small-business billing tools and Daciel, compared on approvals, what they connect to, and price.

	Best for	Channels	How a person stays in control	Published pricing
Stampli, Medius, Tipalti	Mid-market and enterprise AP departments	Invoice capture, approval routing, payment runs; ERP integrations	Multi-level approval matrices	Enterprise, not published
Bill.com	Small businesses that want AR and AP in one billing tool	Email reminders and a payment portal	Approval workflows on bills	Per user per month plus transaction fees; published on their site
QuickBooks	Businesses that want reminders inside their accounting software	Email reminders	Manual send or scheduled	Per month by plan; published on their site
Dacielthis site	Businesses that want overdue invoices chased by email and phone from the same record, with a person approving each campaign	Email, text and a phone number Daciel holds; invoices from the accounting tool you connect	Each reminder campaign approved by a named person; promises to pay filed on the invoice	Contact Daciel for business plan availability and pricing.