Kefron FAQs

  • Who is Kefron best for - their role(s) within what kind of companies.

    Kefron AP, our innovative Accounts Payable Invoice Automation Solution is aimed at Chief Financial Officers, Finance Directors, AP Managers and AP Teams that are looking to streamline the invoicing process, eliminate potential human errors, lower the cost per invoice processed, improve supplier communication and prevent fraud.

  • How does Kefron benefit them?

    Kefron AP is a pure invoice automation solution that delivers super-accurate, adaptable and easy-to-use accounts payable invoice automation. Kefron AP provides automated invoice data capture, coding and approval workflow, PO creation and 2-way or 3-way matching. Kefron AP supports multiple document types - first generation pdfs and scanned invoices, multiple entities, currencies and languages as well as multiple business rules.

    Time-saving is a key benefit to using AP Automation. Research indicates that adopting Accounts Payable Automation in an AP department can reduce time spent on a manual AP process by as much as 85% and in certain cases by over 90%, leaving staff with much more time to deal with other responsibilities. But while speed and processing efficiency are clearly a major attraction, there are also many other benefits on offer.

  • How technical do users need to be to use Kefron's software?

    Kefron AP is a pure accounts payable automation solution designed to make invoice automation easy. It is designed to promote easy interaction. Each screen is carefully designed to deliver a clear, uncluttered interface, loved by our customers.

  • What makes Kefron a leader in this space?

    Established over 30 years, Kefron is a provider of software solutions for the automation of business processes. We provide a high quality, professional and friendly service. We work to understand our customers business so that we can take the pain out of paper, enabling customers to focus on what matters to them. We work to the highest international standards and we are proud to hold four ISO certificates, including ISO 27001 for Information Security.

  • Who are Kefron's biggest competitors (3-5 companies)?

    Tipalti, Basware, MineralTree, Glantus, Stampli

  • How/why is Kefron better than those competitors (or most others in their market)? What about Kefron is unique, stronger, easier, etc.?

    Kefron AP is a cloud-based, accurate, adaptable and easy to use accounts payable automation solution that is loved by our clients and their staff for the efficient automation of invoice processing.

  • What kind of features can customers expect Kefron to release in the near future? And longer term?

    Kefron AP is continually improved though ongoing agile development. All new features are assessed against 3 key strategic development goals: adaptability to client processes, ease-of-use and configurability.

  • Which popular or common software does Kefron integrate with?

    The Kefron AP Solution has the ability to sync with any accounting software by simply exchanging information directly with your systems, eliminating the need to re-key information. Some of the finance systems it can easily integrate with to provide seamless invoice automation include: NetSuite, Sage, Oracle, SAP, Irish, AccountsIQ, Microsoft Dynamics, IRIS, Infor and more.

  • Software pricing can often be complex. If it's pretty straightforward, list tiers, pricing (per year, seat, etc) and limits for Kefron. If it's not simple, use broad estimates or ranges for typical setups.

    Unlike other companies, we operate a ‘software as a service’ model. This enables our customers to pay a price per invoice processed on our cloud-based solution and hence avoid expensive upfront software purchasing costs.

    The rate per invoice is dependent on the expected volume of invoices per year as well as how much information a customer wishes to extract from invoices, aka invoice header and footer alone or invoice line item in addition.

  • Does Kefron offer a trial or free download available?

    Kefron offers free demonstrations of the Kefron AP software.

  • Does Kefron offer any kind of training/education for their product?

    We train users online, we offer a 1-hour session for standard AP users and 2-hour session for system administrators. Also customers can access inline system tips and help resources to assist them if required.

  • Describe the implementation process and timeline for Kefron software.

    Implementation time is contingent on the complexity of the project, usually between 3 to 12 weeks.

  • What are the Kefron support options? List all.

    Kefron AP is supported by a skilled Support Team, at hand for all of our customers' technical assistance needs. A Support Engineer is allocated to every ticket raised in the system and will liaise with the case, investigate it, work on a resolution and implement a fix where needed.