What is touchless AP / straight-through invoice processing?
Updated September 2026 · By Scott Thompson, Founder
The short answer
Touchless AP (straight-through processing) means supplier invoices are captured, extracted, validated, and posted into your ERP automatically, with no human keying. People touch only the invoices that fail a validation rule. DynamoDocs delivers touchless AP by posting clean invoices automatically and routing only exceptions to review.
What 'touchless' really means
It doesn't mean zero oversight. It means zero manual data entry for the documents that are clean. Those flow from inbox to posted record on their own.
Exceptions are the only manual work
Invoices that fail a check (bad total, missing PO, unknown vendor) are flagged field-by-field and reviewed. Everything else is hands-off.
How to get there
Capture from the AP mailbox, extract with AI, enforce validation rules, and post via the ERP's API. The cleaner your rules and vendor data, the higher your touchless rate.
Related questions
What touchless rate is realistic?
It varies with the document mix and how consistently vendors reference purchase orders. In one published production deployment, two thirds of invoices matched their PO with no human touch; see the case study for the full numbers.
Is touchless AP the same as auto-paying invoices?
No. Touchless AP here means automated capture-to-posting in the ERP; the money never moves by itself. DynamoDocs can hand your bank the next step: approved bills export as a payment-proposal CSV or ACH (NACHA) file your own payment run executes. Issuing the payment stays with you.
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See it on your documents
Bring a real invoice, PO, or RFQ and watch DynamoDocs take it from inbox to posted in your ERP in about 30 minutes.
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