For owners & principals

AP controls that don’t need another headcount. Or a migration.

The enterprise AP platforms assume a procurement department. inletAP is the version a small finance team can actually adopt — published pricing, a free tier, and no migration.

The free plan processes 25 invoices a month with unlimited users, takes no credit card and does not expire. You get your own intake address at the end of setup.

Workspace controlsEXAMPLE
  • Second LookEach bill against that vendor's history at that property, and your approval tiers.No setup
  • Duplicate holdA confirmed duplicate stays out of every export until a person decides.Built in
  • Approval tiersHow many approvals an amount needs.Your ladder
  • Separation of dutiesWhoever edited or sent an invoice cannot approve it. No exception for admins.Off until an admin turns it on
  • Audit trailEvery document change, with the person and the time.Append-only
UsersUnlimited, on every plan
The controls in an example workspace. None of them needs another hire.

The job today

Where the time goes today. And what changes.

Today

  • Invoice volume grows with the portfolio; the AP process does not.
  • Controls are informal because formalizing them seems to require another hire.
  • Every AP vendor you evaluate hides its pricing behind a demo call and an annual minimum.
  • The ones that publish a number are built for a company with one ledger, not thirty owners.
  • Duplicate payments and late fees are a cost nobody has quantified.
  • Replacing the PMS to get better AP is a risk you are not willing to take.

What inletAP takes off you

  • A cost you can calculate first. Per invoice, against your own volume, before you commit to anything.
  • Separation of duties as a setting you switch on. The person who edited an invoice cannot be the one who approves it.
  • Duplicates flagged the moment the invoice is read. Before an approver ever sees the second copy.
  • An audit trail that shortens the conversation. With your accountant and with your auditor.
  • Each owner's share in each owner's books. A shared invoice lands in that owner's company file — not as a journal somebody remembers to reverse.
  • No implementation project. A workspace and a working intake address in one session, and a portfolio imported from a spreadsheet you export yourself rather than retyped.
  • Your PMS and your ledger stay exactly where they are. The import is a file read once at setup; neither system moves.

The whole price list

Read the price before you talk to anyone. Unlimited users on every tier.

Free

$0

25 invoices / month

Starter

$39

150 invoices / month

Growth

$99

500 invoices / month

Pro

$249

1,500 invoices / month

Overage is $0.18 to $0.35 an invoice. No annual minimum, no implementation fee, no call required to find out. Compare plans

Prices are in US dollars and exclude sales tax, which is added where it applies.

Paid plans renew automatically at the price shown — every month, or every 12 months on annual billing — until you cancel. Cancel any time in billing settings: the next renewal stops and you keep the period you have already paid for.

What you get

The parts of the product built for this role

No migration

inletAP sits in front of your PMS and your ledger rather than replacing either.

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The riskiest project in your pipeline is the one you get to not run.

Separation of duties

A workspace setting, off until an admin turns it on. With it on, whoever edited an invoice's amounts or coding, or sent it for approval, cannot approve it — admins included.

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Thresholds decide how many approvals an amount needs, and every approval is attributed to a person with a timestamp, with an optional comment. A rejection always requires one.

Duplicate-payment protection

Caught on the attachment fingerprint and a vendor / number / date / amount score, as soon as the invoice is read — before anyone approves it.

An audit trail that ends arguments

Append-only: no screen and no API route can edit or delete an entry. Who approved the $22,000 HVAC invoice is a filter, not an afternoon.

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Every document change is recorded with the actor, the timestamp and, for field edits, the before and after value.

Scales with the portfolio

Move up a plan when volume grows rather than renegotiating a contract.

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Multi-entity separation means adding an owner or a joint venture does not mean adding a system.

Every owner and approver included

Users are unlimited on every plan, so putting every owner, property manager and approver in the system does not change the bill.

How you're measured

The numbers this role gets asked about, and where inletAP helps

Cost per processed invoice

Plan cost plus overage, divided by volume: what the software costs you per invoice, not your fully-loaded AP cost. It is a sum you do rather than a report you open.

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With published pricing you can work it out on a napkin before you sign up. Your fully-loaded AP cost includes people, and it is the figure the published category benchmarks measure.

Savings caught before export

The weekly summary email totals the bills checked and the dollar difference on the findings you accepted. inletAP does not chart it on a screen.

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A finding is raised when a price, a quantity or a rate moves against a vendor's own history, before the bill is exported.

Control exceptions

Overdue invoices and quarantined documents each have a live queue, and possible duplicates are findings on the review queue. These are current queues, not a historical exception report.

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A breach sends an email naming the invoices and how long they have been overdue.

How each of these is counted, including which measures we deliberately do not report: the metrics reference.

Worth knowing

Straight answers before you evaluate

What we do not claim

inletAP is early and does not yet have a base of published customer results, so you will not find a case-study percentage anywhere on this site.

The category benchmarks on the pricing page are third-party figures about manual versus automated AP, cited and linked. Run them against your own invoice volume — that is a more useful number than anyone's testimonial.

Questions from this seat

What does it cost, actually?
The free plan covers 25 processed invoices a month with no credit card. Paid plans are $39 for 150 invoices, $99 for 500, and $249 for 1,500 a month. Users are unlimited on all of them, so putting every owner, property manager and approver in the system does not change the bill. Invoices beyond the allowance are $0.35, $0.25 or $0.18 each depending on the plan. Annual billing is two months free — you pay ten months instead of twelve. Prices are in US dollars and exclude sales tax, which is added where it applies. Paid plans renew automatically at the price shown — every month, or every 12 months on annual billing — until you cancel. Cancel any time in billing settings: the next renewal stops and you keep the period you have already paid for. Those numbers are on the pricing page, not behind a demo form.
How long before it is doing useful work?
Signing up creates the workspace and issues your first intake mailbox in the same session, so you can forward a real vendor invoice and see the result immediately. There is no implementation project, no professional services engagement and no onboarding fee. Vendor mappings and approval tiers are added as you go.
Do I need to replace my property management system?
No, and you should not. inletAP is not a PMS and not a general ledger. It automates the invoice inbox in front of the systems you already run and hands them coded, approved bills. Every migration you do not have to do is risk you do not have to carry.
How does this protect against duplicate payment?
Two passes, both after the invoice has been read. Once the document is extracted it is compared against the invoices you already hold — on the attachment fingerprint and on a vendor / invoice-number / date / amount score, across the last two years and the two hundred most recent candidates — so a re-send or a forwarded copy is flagged before an approver signs. And once more at export, where any invoice still carrying an open blocking duplicate finding is held out of the batch. A top-tier match cannot post to your ledger until a person decides — the only thing in the product that stops anything. Published estimates put duplicate payments between 0.1% and 2% of payments, a wide range because the studies disagree, and the useful part is that you can see your own number rather than an industry one.
What do I show an owner who asks whether anyone checks these bills?
The record. Every invoice we read is checked against your approval thresholds and against the invoices you already hold, and where a vendor has enough history at that property the bill is also compared with what it charged before; every finding, acceptance and dispute is written to the audit trail with a person and a timestamp. That is the artifact you forward to an owner or take to a board — a control that ran on every invoice we read, with the decisions attached. It is not a claim that software finds everything: the published research is clear that automated monitoring surfaces a small share of cases first, and that its value is in how much sooner and how much smaller the losses are. Firms using proactive data monitoring reported markedly lower median losses and faster detection (ACFE, Report to the Nations, 2026) — the figures, with the link, are on the duplicate-detection page.
Can I get separation of duties without hiring more people?
Up to a point, and it is worth knowing where that point is. Roles do not separate editing from approving. The control that does is separation of duties, a workspace setting that is off until an admin turns it on: with it on, the person who edited an invoice's amounts or coding, or who sent it for approval, cannot approve it, and there is no exception for admins. Thresholds decide how many approvals an amount requires, and a two-approver tier already needs two different people. Approvals are attributed to a person with a timestamp. Re-splitting or re-coding the allocations on an invoice that has already been signed sends it back to review for a fresh approval; editing a field on the invoice itself does not, so that edit is recorded in the audit trail rather than reversing the signature. What none of it does is invent a second person: a one-person workspace that turns the setting on cannot approve its own invoices at all.
One vendor bills several of my entities on one invoice. Whose books does it land in?
Each entity's own. The invoice is split across the properties it covers, and where those properties keep separate sets of books it posts as one bill per QuickBooks company — each carrying only that company's share and each traceable back to the same original email. An owner reviewing their statement sees their own numbers rather than a portfolio total with a note attached. What inletAP does not do is post intercompany due-to / due-from entries; consolidation stays with your accountant.
What is deliberately not in the product?
Payment rails. inletAP does not move money — no ACH, no check disbursement. It produces approved, coded bills in your ledger and payment continues to happen where it happens today. It is also not a rent collection or leasing system.

The rest of the team

Everyone who touches the invoice gets their own view. Here is theirs.

Start free and run your own invoices through it

25 invoices a month, unlimited users, no credit card. Send this month's vendor bills and watch each one get checked, coded and posted to your books.