Basware Guardian for AP | First Line Defense for AP

Your first line of defense – filtering, enriching, validating, and automating, all before a single invoice hits your AP workflow!

Finance leaders face increasing pressure to manage risk, ensure fiscal compliance, and reduce manual intervention across AP processes. Invoices arrive through multiple channels, often error-ridden, non-compliant, or outright fraudulent. Basware Guardian changes that.

This intelligent, AI-powered gatekeeper sits between your inbound invoice channels and your AP automation engine – automatically cleaning, enriching, validating, and securing each document before it enters your system.

Guardian detects and filters out:

• Duplicate invoices
• Fraudulent or non-compliant submissions
• Non-invoice documents
• Invoices that don’t meet regulations

It also provides real-time visibility into every invoice’s lifecycle – across suppliers, systems, and borders.

Even in highly automated environments, 10–20% of documents still require manual intervention. These include non-invoices, duplicates, or exceptions—each one a productivity drain.

What You’ll Get – Tangible Results That Matter

Cleaner data, better decisions

Guardian ensures that only valid, compliant, and enriched invoice data reaches your ERP or AP system.

Complete control, seamless integration

Guardian brings all your invoice channels—especially email—under one secure, intelligent umbrella.

Smarter automation

AI-powered exception handling, automated dispute resolution, and customizable flows mean fewer touches and faster throughput.

Real-time visibility

Track every invoice’s journey – across multiple ERPs, systems, and countries – with rich dashboards and lifecycle monitoring.

Enhanced supplier collaboration

Improve relationships and reduce friction with an AI-enhanced experience for your suppliers.

Full invoice compliance, less stress

Built-in validation and support for fiscal compliance helps reduce regulatory risk.

According to several reports, finance teams spend between 30–40% of their time managing supplier inquiries, approvals, and exception handling.

Proactive Invoice Protection

Stop problems before they start. Guardian automatically filters out duplicates, fraud attempts, and non-compliant documents – so only clean, validated invoices reach your AP system.

Smarter, Streamlined Operations

Let AI do the heavy lifting. Guardian enhances invoice data, automates exception handling, and resolves disputes with customizable flows – reducing manual work and accelerating throughput.

Total Visibility and Control

Gain real-time insights across every invoice, supplier, and system. With Guardian’s dashboards and tracking tools, you’ll always know the status, history, and compliance of every document.

Ready to modernize your AP process with confidence?

Basware Guardian is more than software. It’s peace of mind for finance teams. Contact us today to learn more.