What is accounts payable automation?

Accounts payable automation uses software to capture invoices, check them against purchase orders and receipts, and send only the exceptions to a person for approval. ALK does this and shows the source line for every match or mismatch.

Can ALK do bank reconciliation?

Yes. ALK matches bank lines to ledger entries, explains each match, and leaves only the unmatched items for review.

Does ALK work with QuickBooks?

Yes. Pulse connects to QuickBooks, as well as Acumatica and Stripe, and builds live dashboards and alerts from that data.

What files can ALK read?

PDF, PNG, JPEG, DOCX, TXT, CSV and Excel, including scanned documents, tables, signatures and handwriting.

Is ALK accounting software?

No. ALK sits alongside your accounting system. It reads and checks the documents and data behind your entries, so what reaches your ledger has already been checked.

Close the month without the manual matching.

ALK reconciles bank and ledger data, processes invoices, and watches your cash live, with every number traceable to its source.

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What changes with ALK

Month-end, before and after ALK.

Bank reconciliation

Before

Days at month-end

With ALK

Minutes per run

Invoice processing

Before

Manual entry and coding

With ALK

Extracted, matched, and flagged

Cash position

Before

Weekly report

With ALK

Live dashboard with alerts

ONE QUESTION AT MONTH-END

Ask one question. See the invoices behind the answer.

ALK answers from your own records, then shows the files, the reason and the page it came from. Here’s how.

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Asking in plain words what is holding up this week’s vendor payments at Sysmere Foodservice.

A bar chart of vendor payments on hold by vendor, Prairie Gold Dairy highest at $10,069.

The answer broken down: receiving issues $16,427, billing above the PO $13,500, a duplicate invoice $10,069.

The Exception stage: five invoices held, with 17 ready to pay out of 22.

The 3-way match review for Hollis Creek invoice HCP-5587, naming the price variance.

Purchase order PO-26-7294 showing chicken breast at $2.64 per pound.

The Ready to pay stage listing the 17 invoices that passed the 3-way match.

Setting the watch: warn me when more than $25,000 of vendor invoices is on hold.

The Pulse view Vendor payments on hold: $39,996 on hold, $14,996 over the $25,000 threshold.

Replay

Every step in that answer is a tool you can use on its own. Here’s each one.

Matched transaction

Period: Sep 1, 2026 - Sep 30, 2026

Bank	General Ledger	Match Type
Sep 2, 2026 • $9,644.20 ACH PMT RIVERBEND PRODUCE GROWER type: debit	Sep 1, 2026 • $9,644.20 Riverbend Produce Growers - Invoice RPG-88213 gl_code: 1010 type: credit	Auto
Sep 2, 2026 • $38,420.00 DEPOSIT LOCKBOX HARBORVIEW HOTEL GROUP type: credit	Sep 2, 2026 • $38,420.00 Harborview Hotel Group - Customer receipt gl_code: 1010 type: debit	Auto
Sep 3, 2026 • $17,215.80 ACH PMT HOLLIS CREEK POULTRY type: debit	Sep 2, 2026 • $17,215.80 Hollis Creek Poultry - Invoice HCP-5520 gl_code: 1010 type: credit	Auto
Sep 4, 2026 • $6,982.00 ACH PMT MIDLAND GRAIN MILLS type: debit	Sep 3, 2026 • $6,982.00 Midland Grain Mills - Invoice MGM-3371 gl_code: 1010 type: credit	Auto
Sep 4, 2026 • $6,215.40 DEPOSIT LOCKBOX ROSALIND'S BISTRO type: credit	Sep 4, 2026 • $6,215.40 Rosalind's Bistro - Customer receipt gl_code: 1010 type: debit	Auto
Sep 5, 2026 • $86,400.00 PAYROLL TRANSFER TO ACCT 4488 type: debit	Sep 5, 2026 • $86,400.00 Payroll account 4488 - Semi-monthly payroll funding gl_code: 1010 type: credit	Auto

Showing results 1-10 of 24

Bank Sep 2, ledger Sep 1: matched within the ±2 day tolerance

Matched on its own: 24 of 29 lines, 92% coverage

Invoice processing

Get invoices out of inboxes and into your books.

Invoices are read, coded, and matched to purchase orders and receipts, with anything unusual flagged before payment.

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CONNECTED SOURCES

GmailAP inbox

Connected

OutlookVendor inbox

Connected

WebhookERP export

Connected

StartGmail · New email

Validate 3-Way MatchValidate

Validate 3-Way Match resultsingleSelect

Ready to pay

Exception

3-Way Match Review

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Ready to pay14

Exception2

Create New Stage

View run

pdf

INV_PGD-40718_Prairie_Gold.pdf

Extracted

Cash visibility

See your cash position as it changes.

Pulse connects to your bank accounts and builds a live view of balances and transactions, with alerts when something moves.

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Cash position | Sysmere Foodservice

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Latest Closing Balance vs Low-Balance Alert (Sep 26, 2026)

Closing balance (USD)
Low-balance alert (USD)

Last refreshed 10:51 AM

1 source

Cash Position Key Metrics

Total Cash Today

$1,755,273.68

Sum of all 4 account closing balances on Sep 26, 2026

Operating Buffer/Shortfall

-$1,420.10

Operating closing balance minus $350,000 alert on Sep 26, 2026

Month Low (Total Cash)

$1,664,978.18

Lowest daily total cash, occurred Sep 20, 2026

Last refreshed 10:51 AM

1 source

Financial analysis

Ask your numbers a question, get the source too.

Analyst turns spreadsheets and exports into summaries and charts in plain language, like the average purchase order value of your top ten vendors.

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What's the average purchase order value of our top ten vendors? Chart it.

	A	B
1	Vendor	Average PO Value
2	Cedar Valley Meats	18935.06
3	Prairie Gold Dairy Co.	14818.96
4	Hollis Creek Poultry	17392.37
5	Riverbend Produce Growers	8939.2
6	Blue Harbor Seafood	20150.93
7	Tamsin Ridge Frozen Foods	11641.72
8	Midland Grain Mills	7870.38
9	Copperpot Beverage Co.	8755.37
10	Orchard Lane Farms	5635.49
11	Coldchain Fleet Services	6064.71
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Average PO Value - Top 10 Vendors (by Total Spend)

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Sunbeth Global Concepts, an agri-commodity trading business, uses ALK to bring its bank accounts into one view, automate bank reconciliation, and let its finance team get answers from company data in plain language.

Sunbeth Global Concepts

Agri-commodity trading