Before payment
The money never leaves, so there's nothing to chase
No credit note to chase, no contingency fee, and the money stays in your account.
Invoice assurance, before you pay
Your team approved every invoice last month. Who actually checked them?
Thousands of lines arrive, nobody has time to read them, so they get signed off. Rates creep up, charges fall outside the contract, the same work gets billed twice. SpendSure reads every line before you pay and writes the challenge for you.
- No finance system integration
- Nothing changes for suppliers
- See the findings before you commit
Brought to you by Libra Europe
One invoice, checked
- 1. Read
- 2. Match
- 3. Flag
Invoice
Agency staffing, nights
Matches the agreed rate
PassedPallet freight, outbound
Matches the contract
PassedDeep clean, weekly
Billed above the agreed rate
FlaggedPlanned maintenance
Matches the schedule
Passed
The flagged line comes back to you priced, with the evidence attached and the challenge already drafted.
Would have got back
Your figure, from your own invoices
An invented invoice, shown the way every real one is checked. No client data appears on this site.
Signs this is you
Which of these sound familiar?
None of these are about people not caring. They're about volume.
- 01
Invoice approval is a signature rather than a check, and everybody knows it.
The PO matches, the total looks about right, it goes through.
- 02
Nobody could tell you what share of last month's invoices were wrong.
Not because it's zero. Because nobody has looked.
- 03
You couldn't say whether you're paying more for the same line than you did a year ago.
The contract says one thing. The invoices may have drifted since.
- 04
Queries get raised, then quietly dropped because nobody has time to argue them.
Writing the challenge and chasing the supplier is the part that never happens.
- 05
Any checking you do is a sample, or a quarterly review after the money has gone.
By then it's a credit note to chase, if anyone chases it.
- 06
You've paid a recovery audit a share of money that was yours in the first place.
Or you've been pitched one, and wondered why it has to happen afterwards.
Where the money goes
Approval is not checking. You're paying for the difference.
Whether it's haulage, packaging, raw materials, facilities, contractors or software, the pattern is the same. Nobody reads every line, so the lines nobody reads are the ones that cost you.
Rate creep
The price moved and nobody noticed
A few pence on a unit, a few pounds on a day rate. Each line looks fine on its own. Across a year of invoices it adds up to real money.
Out of scope
Charges the contract never covered
Premiums, surcharges and extras that appear on the invoice but not in the rate card or any agreed variation.
Billed twice
The same work, on two invoices
A different invoice number, a different month, the same job. Easy to miss when every invoice is approved on its own.
3–6%
Across the invoices we've checked so far, these three leaks come to between 3 and 6% of invoice spend.
A range from real invoices, not a promise about yours. The free trial tells you your own figure.
A recovery audit finds it after the cash has gone. SpendSure stops the payment instead.
What you get
Every line, every invoice, every month. Not a quarterly sample.
Checked three ways
- 1
Price
Against comparable invoices, to see whether the price has moved.
- 2
Scope
Against the contract, to see whether the charge is even in scope.
- 3
History
Against your history, to see whether you're paying for the same thing twice.
Your own spend becomes the yardstick
SpendSure starts with three months of the invoices you've already had. Each new line is checked against what you actually paid last time, not only against the contract. A rate that has quietly crept up has nowhere to hide.
The challenge is already written
When a line fails, SpendSure drafts the response to the supplier with the evidence in it. Your team reads it, edits it if they want, and sends it. The challenge actually goes out, instead of sitting on somebody's list until it's too late.
How it works
Three steps. No new system for your team to learn.
- 1
Connect
We connect to the mailbox your invoices already arrive in, then load three months of history and the contracts behind them. No finance system integration.
- 2
Check
Every new invoice is read line by line against comparable invoices, the contract and your own payment history. Failures are ranked by value, not by date.
- 3
Challenge
SpendSure drafts the reply to the supplier with the evidence attached. A person reads it and sends it. Everything that passes goes out clean and on time.
Why SpendSure
Not AP automation, and not a recovery audit.
Routes, codes, pays
AP automation
AP automation routes, codes and pays. It gets invoices through faster, but it doesn't ask whether the invoice was right.
After the money has gone
A recovery audit
A recovery audit works after the money has gone. It finds what went wrong once it's too late, then takes a share of getting it back.
Before payment
SpendSure
SpendSure sits between the two. It reads the invoice before payment, against your contract and three months of your own spend, and writes the challenge for you.
Getting started
What we need from you
Access to the invoice inbox
The mailbox invoices already land in. No integration with your finance system, and nothing for your suppliers to change.
Three months of history
The invoices you've already received. They become the benchmark, so checking starts from what you actually pay rather than what you assume you pay.
Your contracts and rate cards
The terms you agreed, including schedules and variations, so each line can be tested against scope as well as price.
Free trial
Run it over your last three months of invoices.
Give us your last three months of invoices and the contracts behind them. We'll show you what SpendSure finds in your own spend, typically 3–6% of it, before you commit to anything.
- Your invoices, your contracts, your findings
- Thirty minutes to walk through what we'd need
- No integration, no change for your suppliers
- No commitment until you've seen the results
The team behind it
SpendSure is built by Libra Europe, consultants to manufacturing and supply chain businesses for more than twenty years. It's us you'll be talking to on the call.
Gareth Turner
Commercial Director
Rob Baldwin
Solutions Director