RECOVERY OS · ACCOUNTS PAYABLE

Find duplicate vendor payments before they disappear into the ledger.

A read-only AP recovery scan for duplicate payments, repeated invoice variants, wrong-amount disbursements and unapplied supplier credits. Start with CSV exports—no ERP integration and no vendor outreach until evidence is reviewed.

Public intake is scope-only. Do not upload bank details, invoices, credentials or sensitive vendor records through the public form.

Why this lane is attractive

Objective cash signal

APQC tracks duplicate or erroneous disbursements as a core AP efficiency measure; its current public benchmark page shows a 1.5% median across a 1,686-company sample. We treat that as a screening benchmark—not a recovery promise.

Low-friction first pass

The scan can begin from vendor master, payment history and invoice-level exports. That allows a service-assisted first pass without a long ERP project.

Evidence before action

Recovery OS separates a statistical match from a validated candidate. No supplier is contacted and no claim is submitted automatically.

What the engine checks

Exact duplicateSame supplier, invoice reference, amount and payment history.
Normalized invoice duplicateInvoice references compared after removing punctuation, prefixes, spaces and leading zeros.
Cross-vendor duplicateSame economic invoice paid under separate vendor IDs or legal-name variants.
Near-duplicate amount/dateSame supplier with similar amount and close invoice or payment dates, routed for manual evidence review.
Split or repeated settlementMultiple payments that appear to settle one obligation more than once.
Unapplied credit candidateSupplier credits or credit memos that may remain unmatched to later payments.

Minimum data for a first-pass scan

Payment export

Vendor ID/name, payment date, payment amount, currency, payment reference and invoice reference where available.

Invoice export

Invoice number, invoice date, gross amount, vendor, PO/reference and payment status.

Optional validation

Vendor master, credit-memo export, PO data and selected supporting documents only after a candidate is found.

A synthetic/sample dataset can be used for process validation before any real client data is handled.

Evidence Pack, not a black-box score

Each candidate is designed to carry: match reason, normalized keys, source rows, confidence, missing evidence, value state and recommended next step. The Commercial Ledger keeps potential, validated, recovered and cash received separate.

Potential→Validated→Recovery-ready→Recovered→Cash received

Pilot pricing experiment

FIXED-FEE RECOVERY SCAN
$950

Proposed pilot for a bounded historical AP export with a written findings pack. Final scope depends on row count, date range and data quality. No contingency fee or supplier outreach is activated by this page.

Best-fit client

Mid-market finance team with meaningful vendor spend, at least 12 months of AP history and enough transaction volume for duplicates to matter economically.

Target first value

First-pass exception list within 1–2 business days after a clean export is received; evidence validation follows before anything is called recoverable.

Benchmarks and source notes

APQC’s public measure defines duplicate or erroneous payments to include duplicate payments, wrong-vendor payments and wrong-amount payments, and currently reports a 1.5% median in its benchmark sample. CFO.com previously reported APQC quartiles of about 0.8% for top performers and 2% for bottom performers. SAP Concur’s SMB invoice study found a 1.29% duplicate-invoice flag rate in its historical dataset. These are external benchmarks from different populations and periods; they are not guarantees for any client.