Solution
Order to cash automation that starts where the order does
Most order-to-cash tools optimize invoicing and collections. For manufacturers and distributors the real bottleneck is earlier: getting the emailed PO into the ERP as a clean sales order. OrderPier automates that first step so the rest of the cycle can run.
70-90%
less order-entry time
Same day
PO to posted order
$8-$15
saved per order
Published
accuracy benchmark
Where order to cash actually breaks
Order to cash is the full loop from a customer order to collected payment. Finance teams invest heavily in the back half (invoicing, AR, collections), but the cycle cannot start until the order is in the ERP. For most distributors that means a CSR reading a PDF, finding the customer and parts, checking price and stock, and keying the order by hand. Every hour that PO sits unentered is an hour added to the whole cycle.
OrderPier automates the entry step. It reads the inbound purchase order, validates it against your customers, items, and pricing, and creates the sales order in your ERP, so fulfillment and invoicing can begin the day the PO arrives instead of days later.
What automating the front of the cycle changes
- Days of order-entry lag collapse to minutes, shortening days sales outstanding at the source.
- Price and availability are validated before the order posts, so fewer disputes and credits surface downstream in AR.
- Every order carries a clean audit trail from the original document to the posted sales order.
- CSR time shifts from typing to exceptions, so order volume can grow without new headcount.
Fits the ERP you already run
OrderPier posts validated sales orders directly into Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central today. Epicor Prophet 21, Epicor Kinetic, and Acumatica connectors are in early access, validated against your own instance during a pilot before live orders flow. QuickBooks Enterprise imports an IIF file, and any other system can take approved orders by webhook. Because extraction needs no per-customer templates, the order-to-cash gain starts the day you connect a mailbox.
Order-to-cash questions
- Is order to cash automation the same as accounts receivable automation?
- No. AR automation handles invoicing, cash application, and collections, which is the back half of the cycle. OrderPier automates the front half: turning the inbound purchase order into a validated sales order in your ERP. That is usually the slowest manual step, so speeding it up shortens the entire order-to-cash timeline.
- Which ERPs can OrderPier post orders into?
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is live for native sales-order creation. Epicor Prophet 21, Epicor Kinetic, and Acumatica are in early access. QuickBooks Enterprise takes an IIF export, and anything else takes a webhook. The integrations page shows the current status of every connector.
- How quickly does it affect our cycle time?
- From the first orders. Entry lag is typically the largest manual delay in the cycle, and it drops from hours or days to minutes once the mailbox is connected.