Bill reader
Reads a vendor bill's photo or PDF and fills a draft bill in Books for you to check.
How it works
Send a bill from Books, or on WhatsApp if you manage purchases. The agent reads the vendor's name and GSTIN, the bill number and dates, the lines and the printed total. Books uses the vendor only when the GSTIN matches exactly, works out the tax itself and compares it with the printed total. A read is only as good as the photo, so check every figure. The agent never posts a bill or adds a vendor, and the bill's pages go to the AI model.
A few credits per bill, more with more pages. Shown before each run in Books.
What it reads
- The bill you upload or send, up to 4 pages
When it starts
- When someone who can manage purchases clicks Read a bill, or sends a bill on WhatsApp
What it can do
- Fill a draft bill for you to check (after you confirm)
What it never does
- Post a bill, pay a vendor, or add or change a vendor
Safe by design
- One assistant, many agents. Ask the Employee assistant in the app or on WhatsApp; it calls the agents your company has hired that you may use.
- Hired, not switched on. Your admin hires each agent from the catalogue and chooses who can use it.
- Agents propose, people confirm. Anything that changes data, like a leave request, waits for a person to confirm it.
- Same access as the user. An agent sees only what the person asking is allowed to see.
- AI processing in India. Agents run on models hosted in India (AWS Mumbai).
- Budgets and a hard stop. Set a monthly credit limit per agent; agents stop when credits run out.
- Every run recorded. Admins see each run, the credits it used and what it did.
Frequently asked questions
What does the Bill reader do?
Send a bill from Books, or on WhatsApp if you manage purchases. The agent reads the vendor's name and GSTIN, the bill number and dates, the lines and the printed total. Books uses the vendor only when the GSTIN matches exactly, works out the tax itself and compares it with the printed total. A read is only as good as the photo, so check every figure. The agent never posts a bill or adds a vendor, and the bill's pages go to the AI model.
Can the Bill reader change data on its own?
No. It asks a person to confirm before it will: fill a draft bill for you to check. It never does the following: post a bill, pay a vendor, or add or change a vendor.
How much does the Bill reader cost?
A few credits per bill, more with more pages. Shown before each run in Books.. Credits are a paid add-on to any flowwork.ai plan at ₹100 (US$ 1.19) per 1,000 credits, and new companies get 500 free trial credits for 30 days.
Where is the data processed?
Agents run on AI models hosted in India and see only what the person using them is allowed to see. Admins see every run and the credits it used.
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