Portico
The supplier portal with an agent: onboarding, invoice submission and payment status, without an email to AP.
- 1
- front door for suppliers
- Every
- country, one standard
- 0
- emails to ask 'when do I get paid?'
1The problem
Why accounts payable spends the day answering suppliers
AP spends the day answering suppliers.
Suppliers can't see where their invoice is, so they email and call AP to ask when they get paid, and clerks stop processing to look it up.
Invoices arrive in five formats.
Email PDFs, paper, e-invoices and other portals each need their own capture. A missing PO number shows up only at matching, when the invoice is already late.
Bank data changed by email.
A supplier's bank details get changed on the strength of an email, with no second check. That is how a spoofed request diverts a real payment.
2How it works
How Portico onboards suppliers and structures invoices
- 1
Invite
Documents by country and category.
- 2
Onboard
Validated, maker-checker.
- 3
Submit
Structured, rejected if it won't match.
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Track
Status visible to the supplier.
3What you get
What Portico includes
Onboarding
Suppliers enter tax ID, bank data and the documents their country and category require, each record validated under maker-checker control.
Invoice submission
Invoices captured as structured data at the door. Any invoice that won't match is rejected back to the supplier before it reaches AP.
Status self-service
Suppliers follow each invoice from received to paid on their own, and payment-date questions stop landing in AP's inbox.
Supplier agent
An agent that answers payment and policy questions and resolves routine exceptions by cause, passing the rest to a named owner in AP.
Next step
Scope your first supplier portal sprint
Define the scope in minutes. We turn your answers into a focused Value Discovery Sprint.
Scope your sprint
in three questions.
Pick the capability. Your answers tell us where a Value Discovery Sprint would look first; a value consultant comes back with a proposed scope.
Your readout
Your answers shape the scope.
A sprint would likely look first at:
- Invoice scenarios to retire
- Exceptions by cause
- Days lost in the close
Questions
Does Portico work across several countries?
Yes, Boldr AI sets up one regional Portico design, configured per country and integrated with each ERP. Onboarding asks for the documents each country and supplier category requires, while the process stays on one standard.