August 2025
✂️ New Feature Alert: Smarter PDF Splitting & Grouping Is Here!
We’re excited to introduce a powerful upgrade to your document management workflow: our new PDF Splitting & Grouping feature is now live!
With this update, you can:
It’s intuitive, flexible, and designed to save you time.
🔦 Partner Spotlight: Lightyear x Xero
What if you could eliminate 20 hours of monthly AP admin while making your Xero data more intelligent?
The Perfect AI Partnership:
Xero's "Just Ask Xero" (JAX) acts as your AI-powered accounting assistant, while Lightyear brings you a fully optimised AP department. Together, they help you save time, simplify processes, and return to doing what you love at work.
Why they're synergistic:
Fancy a look at the Lightyear x Xero connection? Ask all your questions on automating accounts payable, alongside Xero: Talk to us >>
📍 Upcoming Event: Xerocon 2025
Xerocon is heading to Brisbane on September 3rd and 4th, and Lightyear will be there as part of the Xero app ecosystem, helping finance teams like yours work smarter. Come visit us. We’d love to meet you!
More details to come. Follow our LinkedIn page to stay updated.
⚽How Cambridge United Made Approvals 7x Faster👟
Cambridge United Football Club is a proud League One team with strong community roots. However, the company faced challenges with manual invoice processing, which consumed their time and resources.
To eliminate the difficulties, the team sought Lightyear’s AP automation solution, which integrated well with their accounting system, Sage.
🎥 The Future of AP Automation
In this webinar, we will take you through the key benefits of implementing Lightyear, our integrations and real-world case study examples.
📍 APAC: Online
06 Aug 2025, 20 Aug 2025
📍 EMEA: Online
07 Aug 2025, 21 Aug 2025
What if you could reduce manual work and extract data from invoices, receipts and expenses 5 times faster? 🎯
Automation makes it possible. But with so many options out there, which solution is right for your team? AI-powered software doesn’t just automate, it learns and improves over time. The more you use it, the smarter and more accurate it becomes.
Find out how to leverage AI for faster data extraction in our latest guide. 📣
🏆 Lightyear Awarded Best Customer Support in Accounts Payable
We’re excited to share that Lightyear has been recognised as Best Customer Support in the Accounts Payable category in Software Advice’s 2025 & G2’s 2025 Spring Report! These awards reflect the trust our customers place in us and the outstanding support our team delivers every day. Whether it’s onboarding, troubleshooting or ongoing support, we’re your partner in finance transformation.💙
☕Team Highlights 🙌
Our UK and AU teams recently held their own Coffee & Kudos sessions to celebrate the success of our recent system migrations. ☕👏
A huge shoutout to the incredible champions who made it all happen. Your hard work, collaboration, and commitment made this milestone possible. Here's to smooth transitions and even smoother operations ahead! 🙌
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