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title: Explore Accounts Payable Operations
description: Discover the features, benefits, and applications included in Accounts Payable Operations, such as invoice processing, duplicate detection, exception handling, and inquiry case management.
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# Explore Accounts Payable Operations

Discover the features, benefits, and applications included in Accounts Payable Operations, such as invoice processing, duplicate detection, exception handling, and inquiry case management.

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## Key features

Accounts Payable Operations includes the following features:

-   Automatically create cases for inquiries received via email from your employees or the suppliers
-   Ingest invoices and perform end-to-end invoice processing using workflows from invoice ingestion to approval

## Benefits

Accounts Payable Operations offers the following benefits:

-   Resolve inquiries from employees and suppliers using self-service
-   Automate invoice processing and therefore allocate your work resources to more important tasks
-   Detect duplicate invoices to prevent the same invoice from being paid twice
-   Verify, process, and reconcile invoices to expedite payment to suppliers
-   Identify invoice exceptions to prevent fraudulent invoices from getting processed

## Accounts Payable Operations applications

Accounts Payable Operations includes the following applications:

-   **Accounts Payable Invoice Processing**

    The ServiceNow® Accounts Payable Invoice Processing application identifies invoice duplicates, matches invoices to purchase orders and goods receipts, enables invoice approval management, and provides invoice exception management.

-   **Invoice Case Management**

    The ServiceNow® Invoice Case Management application enables you to resolve inquiries from suppliers or employees via invoice inquiry cases.

-   **Source-to-Pay Workspace**

    The ServiceNow® Source-to-Pay Workspace application provides a single interface and an optimized layout that helps agents and Account Payable Specialists to efficiently manage invoice cases and invoice tasks.

    **Note:** Source-to-Pay Workspace uses and customizes the existing capabilities of the Source-to-Pay Workspace for its own specific requirements.

-   **Accounts Payable Operations integration with Document Intelligence**

    The ServiceNow® Accounts Payable Operations integration with Document Intelligence application captures data from invoices received via email or through APIs and automatically creates invoices and invoice lines in Accounts Payable Operations.


## Overview of invoice processing workflow

The following figure shows a high-level illustration of the various components that are involved in the processing of invoice in Accounts Payable Operations.\[Omitted image "architecture-apo.png"\] Alt text: Invoice processing workflow

-   **[Accounts Payable Invoice Processing](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/source-to-pay-operations/accounts-payable-operations/acc-pay-invoice-processing.md)**  
Accounts Payable Invoice Processing automates invoice document ingestion and data extraction using ServiceNow® Document Intelligence and supports the complete invoice life cycle from capture through approval.
-   **[Invoice Case Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/source-to-pay-operations/accounts-payable-operations/acc-pay-case-mgmt-overview.md)**  
Invoice case management enables agents to resolve invoice discrepancies and exceptions in the Source-to-Pay Workspace through structured workflows.
-   **[Source-to-Pay Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/source-to-pay-operations/accounts-payable-operations/acc-pay-workspace.md)**  
Use the Source-to-Pay Workspace to manage cases and tasks related to invoices and invoice exceptions.
-   **[Accounts Payable Operations integration with Document Intelligence](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/source-to-pay-operations/accounts-payable-operations/apo-docintel-integration.md)**  
Accounts Payable Operations integration with Document Intelligence \(com.sn\_ap\_ic\) automatically extracts invoice data from emails and creates invoice records in Accounts Payable Operations, reducing manual effort.

**Parent Topic:**[Accounts Payable Operations](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/source-to-pay-operations/accounts-payable-operations/acc-pay-mgmt-landing-page.md)