CENTRALIZED INVOICE MANAGEMENT

From invoice receipt to export in one workflow

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Invoices shouldn’t get lost between inboxes, spreadsheets, shared folders, and accounting. A structured workflow captures invoices in one place, validates them before processing, routes them through approvals, and ensures a clean export. With Candis, scattered steps turn into clear, traceable processes.

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Candis invoice management with digital invoice review and a ZUGFeRD e-invoice
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Digital Invoice Import

Put all your bills in one place immediately.

Digital Invoice Approval

Including substitution rule + absence note.

Digital Data Collection

Capture all invoice details - without typing.

For DATEV self-bookers

Automatic accruals + master data maintenance.

Since 2015

More than 10,000 companies already rely on Candis

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Your Workflow

Without and with Candis

Before Candis: Employee reviews a paper invoice among file folders and stacks of paperwork.

Incoming Invoices

Time-consuming searching, printing, and scanning of digital and paper invoices

After using Candis: 12 invoices imported and processed.

Incoming Invoices

Convenient invoice import fromyour emails & automated check for duplicates

With Candis

Without Candis

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Approvals

Cumbersome back-and-forth communication throughout the company and lengthy approval processes

Approval workflow: one person requests approval and another approves it.

Approval

Individual approval workflows & all the info right next to the invoice

With Candis

Without Candis

Stacks of paper documents and binders on a desk represent manual invoice archiving before Candis.

Archive

Inconsistent invoice filing and inconvenient scanning & printing

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Archive

Audit-proof, GoBD-compliant archive with advanced search & filters

With Candis

Without Candis

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Export

Error-prone manual entry of every invoice into the accounting system

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Export

Easy invoice export incl. receipts to DATEV, Sage, SAP Business One, Sesam, or as a file

With Candis

Without Candis

How to manage invoices in Candis

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Invoice Receipt

Receive invoices via Candis Mail, forwarding, or drag & drop – all in one place.

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Invoice Capture

Capture every invoice detail instantly with our AI-powered data extraction.

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Invoice Approval

Set individual approval levels + approvers, request approval, done.

Centralized, organized, controlled

Our Digital Invoice Import

With our automatic invoice import, you always have all your digital invoices and also your e-invoices at your fingertips.

  • Efficient time management
    Less manual work, fewer errors

  • Simplified payment management
    Filterable overview for deadlines and discounts

  • Unlimited companies
    With accounts that can be changed at any time

Candis invoice inbox with options to upload documents or import them by email
Precise, reliable, automatic

Our Digital Data Collection

Candis declares a clear rejection of manual typing. Our AI-supported data capture automatically reads all important invoice information and fills it into the relevant index fields – incl. VAT splitting + crumpled thermal vouchers.

  • Automatic duplicate checking
    Reliably detects + flags potential duplicates

  • Growing confidence
    Candis learns continuously with every capture

  • Improved cost control
    Splits invoices into cost centers + G/L accounts

Candis AI supports invoice pre-coding and suggests the general ledger account and cost center “21 – Marketing.”
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The Candis info package

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Our Digital Invoice Approval

With Candis, you can control who approves what and when. If you also create teams, this automatically updates all associated workflows – from approval levels to responsibilities. We also automatically check every invoice for duplicates and compliance with § 14 UStG. If the supplier, pre-accounting and approval workflow are always the same, the approval process can optionally start automatically.

  • Automatic reminders
    Candis reminds you daily of all pending approvals

  • Role-specific authorizations
    Define individual access rights + responsibilities

  • Clear substitution rules
    Automatic forwarding of approvals to your deputy

Workflow editor showing two approval steps, the Purchasing team, and a condition for invoices over 1,000.
Simply excellent

This is what our customers say.

App Store rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars
Google rating for Candis: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Capterra rating for Candis: 4.8 out of 5 stars
DATEV Marketplace customer rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars for Candis
For DATEV Selfbookers

Automatic provisions

At the beginning of each month, Candis automatically generates provisions for outstanding approvals from the previous month. These can be seamlessly transferred to DATEV Rechnungswesen with just one click. Once approvals are given, the provisions are exported automatically.

  • Better handling of outstanding liabilities
    Simplifies managing invoices still awaiting approval

  • No waiting times for approvals
    Enables fast + smooth month-end closings.

  • Improved transparency
    Ensures an accurate + up-to-date financial overview.

Export window for 3 provisions and 1 reversal via the DATEV API
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Automatic master data management

Candis transfers posting records with up-to-date master data directly to DATEV Rechnungswesen. This enables finance teams to handle growing volumes of data more efficiently — without additional work.

  • No manual follow-up
    Export entered and changed vendors including payment information

  • Less work, fewer errors
    Master data does not have to be entered and edited in two places

  • Optimization of business processes
    By avoiding incorrect or incomplete data

Candis master data screen for Janina Müller, with supplier details and export to DATEV accounting.
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FAQs about invoice management

  • Invoice approval software speeds up and simplifies approval processes. This allows you and your employees to manage all invoices from any location, regardless of who is currently working from home or on vacation.

    This not only optimizes accounting and invoice approval workflows, but also significantly increases employee satisfaction and productivity.

  • You can save business partners in Candis and invoice data is read automatically. This allows you to quickly recognize whether an IBAN is different or an email address is dubious.

  • Yes, all invoices are available to view at any time as a download and in the online archive.

  • All data is stored on our servers in Frankfurt, naturally in compliance with the GDPR.