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Supplier bills

Record, approve and pay supplier invoices from a single screen.

A bill in Numezis is an obligation to pay a supplier for goods or services received. Bills are the source of truth for both your cash forecast and your accounting payables.

Creating a bill

You have three options:

  1. From a document — the OCR engine has already extracted supplier, amount, IBAN and reference. Click Convert to bill, review the pre-fill, and save.
  2. From scratchPurchases → Bills → New bill. Pick a supplier (or create one inline), add lines, save.
  3. From a purchase order — if your workflow includes POs, convert directly from an approved order.

Required fields (Switzerland)

FieldWhy
SupplierDrives accounting categorization + VAT recovery
Invoice numberRequired by Swiss VAT rules; used for duplicate detection
Issue dateDetermines the VAT period
Due dateDrives cash forecasting and reminder cadence
Net + VAT amountPer line; supports 8.1% / 2.6% / 3.8% / 0% / exempt
IBAN or QR referenceRequired for payment runs

Approval

If approval is enabled for this supplier or amount range, the bill enters the waiting_approval state on save. Approvers receive a notification (in-app + email). They can approve, request changes, or reject. The audit log records who did what and when.

Payment

Once approved, a bill is ready_to_pay. Two options:

  • Mark as paid manually — useful when you've already paid outside Numezis (cash, instant payment, foreign wire).
  • Include in next payment run — Numezis groups all ready bills, generates a pain.001 SEPA file (or QR-bill batch for CH), and you upload it to your e-banking once.

Lifecycle

draft → waiting_approval → ready_to_pay → paid → closed

            rejected

Each transition writes an entry to the journal of the bill, visible in the right-side panel of any bill page.