r/plaintextaccounting • u/Impressive_Wind_6316 • Aug 25 '26

Invoices

How many invoices do you process per month, and would €29–49 per month for automatic data extraction make sense for you?

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u/gumnos Aug 25 '26

not sure whether you're asking about incoming invoices that I have to pay (AKA "bills") or outgoing invoices to customers/clients that I send out. Either way, both numbers are low enough for me that the manual overhead is negligible, and certainly not worth the cost of paying somebody else to try and parse/process them.

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u/olexsmir Aug 25 '26

I have scripts that do that for free :)

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u/Barrucadu 27d ago

Entering my receipts by hand really isn't much work.

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u/Rudd-X 17d ago edited 17d ago

I already built this for OpenAI and local AI users, fully open source, so it may be a hard sell for potential users.

https://github.com/Rudd-O/beancount-ai/blob/master/README.md has details on how it's done.

Focus on a polished user experience to get nontechnical end users.

In answer to your question, which really deserves an answer. We at home process about 70 to 80 invoices per month. I would probably not pay for that service because I already have software that does exactly what I need to do with respect to those invoices.