Why this pays back now
Manual invoice processing is a silent profit drain.
Direct cost
CHF 12–30
Processing cost per manually handled invoice
Cycle time
10–20 days
Time to post and approve a single invoice
Error cost
CHF 42
Average cost of a single correction
Knock-on
61 %
Share of late payments traced to invoicing errors
The direct cost.
Every manually processed invoice costs between
CHF 12 and 30 — labour, double entry, search effort and
corrections combined. It clears the company in
10 to 20 days, with an error rate of up to
3.9 %.
How the errors compound.
A single correction costs roughly CHF 42,
and 61 % of late payments trace directly back to invoicing errors.
On 6'000 invoices a year at CHF 20 each, that's
CHF 120'000 in direct costs alone — before knock-on
effects.
Manual vs. DocProc · at a glance
| Metric |
Manual |
With DocProc |
| Cost per invoice |
CHF 12 – 30 |
CHF 1 – 3 |
| Processing time |
8 – 20 minutes |
under 30 seconds |
| First-pass error rate |
up to 3.9 % |
under 0.5 % |
| Monthly volume handled |
500 – 800 |
10'000+ |
| Touchless rate per supplier |
0 % |
up to 92 % |
| Document lookup in archive |
18 minutes |
under 1 minute |
| Duplicate invoices caught |
spot-check only |
100 % matched against history |
