Basware

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Purchase-to-pay & e-invoicing solutions

About Basware

Basware is a provider of e-invoicing and purchase-to-pay solutions for businesses all over the world, in a wide range of industries. A number of solutions are available, designed to assist users in automating e-procurement, e-invoicing, and accounts payable processes, alongside managing fixed assets, inventories, contract lifecycles, travel & expenses, and more.

Basware offers users access to the Basware Network, an international business ecosystem which connects more than 220+ B2B networks around the globe. Joining the network enables businesses to connect with their trading partners and potential customers, exchange eCatalogs, send and receive invoices and purchase orders, create credit notes, join payment programs, and more. Basware supports over 70 different formats for e-invoices and automatically converts sent invoices to the preferred format of the recipient, removing the need for users to prepare different invoice or order types for different trading partners.

Basware Purchase enables users to automate their procurement process using built-in best-practice workflows to manage reviews and approvals for requisitions, purchase order creation, and goods receipt processes. The accounts payable processing software can make decisions on the best way to process invoices on behalf of users, based on approval policies, business rules, and the information in the invoice. Invoices are also automatically matched to orders, contracts, or goods receipts at the header level, line level, or both, to create coding and initiate workflows. Users are notified of new tasks, missing receipts, and auto-escalations, and can collaborate on individual invoices through ‘chat-like’ dialogues.

Basware offers users access to analytics covering the full purchase-to-pay process, giving users the opportunity to proactively manage KPIs, recognize problems and their causes, and identify cost savings across the whole enterprise. Ad hoc reports can be created at any time, and shared with colleagues through the native Android and iOS mobile apps.


Key benefits of Basware

  • Basware supports over 70 e-invoice formats, with sent e-invoices automatically converted to trading partners’ preferred formats, and received e-invoices automatically converted to users’ preferred formats.

  • Purchase orders, sales invoices, and purchase invoices can all be managed in a single place, giving greater visibility into financial processes.

  • Travel plans can be created by employees, with cost estimates, and approved before travel is booked, and receipts for expenses incurred on business trips can be captured by taking a photo with a smartphone or tablet.

  • Built-in best-practice workflows automate purchase requisitions and orders, and enable users to manage processes including requisition review and approval, and goods receipt processes.

  • Users can view real-time analytics of cash flow, spend, and financial performance, giving visibility across the full purchase-to-pay process and enabling users to identify any process bottlenecks.

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    Basware Software - Basware offers interactive data visualizations for users to utilize in financial decision-making
    Basware Software - Accounts payable process analytics can be filtered by organization, invoice origin, invoice type, and more
    Basware Software - Basware's analytics for business managers enable users to track spending, control expense patterns, and manage budgets
    Basware Software - Users can drill down into data on working capital, cash flow, and operational performance metrics in Basware's analytics for financial leaders
    Basware Software - Procurement analytics give users insight into demand, spend, and supplier rationalization opportunities
    Basware Software - Real-time performance metrics enable users to improve service levels across companies and business units
    Basware Software - All of Basware's analytics dashboards can be accessed through tablet devices, enabling users to make financial decisions on-the-go
    Basware Software - Users can manage their tasks through Basware's native iOS and Android apps
    Basware Software - Invoices can also be viewed through the mobile apps
    Basware Software - Basware's mobile apps allow users to review and approve purchase orders and invoices on-the-go
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    Basware Software - Basware offers interactive data visualizations for users to utilize in financial decision-making
    Basware Software - Accounts payable process analytics can be filtered by organization, invoice origin, invoice type, and more
    Basware Software - Basware's analytics for business managers enable users to track spending, control expense patterns, and manage budgets
    Basware Software - Users can drill down into data on working capital, cash flow, and operational performance metrics in Basware's analytics for financial leaders
    Basware Software - Procurement analytics give users insight into demand, spend, and supplier rationalization opportunities
    Basware Software - Real-time performance metrics enable users to improve service levels across companies and business units
    Basware Software - All of Basware's analytics dashboards can be accessed through tablet devices, enabling users to make financial decisions on-the-go
    Basware Software - Users can manage their tasks through Basware's native iOS and Android apps
    Basware Software - Invoices can also be viewed through the mobile apps
    Basware Software - Basware's mobile apps allow users to review and approve purchase orders and invoices on-the-go

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    3.9 /5
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    3.5/5
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    3.8/5
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    3.8/5
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    Verified Reviewer
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    • Industry: Oil & Energy
    • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

    Great tool for processing invoices

    Reviewed on 2020/04/03

    Overall experience is very good. This app is a great improvement in processing payable invoices in...

    Overall experience is very good. This app is a great improvement in processing payable invoices in company. Process is smoother, easier and faster. Also, Basware works great as an audit evidence.

    Pros

    Basware is basically a tool which enables to process payable invoices. It allows you to upload them, input accounting string, and transfer to your ERP system. It works very well with Oracle Finance which is a great advantage. Processing invoices is relatively easy, requires 4-eye principle to be met. It allows you to add attachments, notes and perform basically whole communication regarding the invoice in one application without using neither e-mail, nor external communicator. Overall experience with this application is really great.

    Cons

    Purchase order processing is not the best so if you have a lot of it in your company, you may need to consider some other app. It works slow and is not intuitive.

    Ahmet
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    • Industry: Management Consulting
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

    Essential & Market Leading P2P Tool

    Reviewed on 2023/08/28

    Basware is one of the leading purchase-to-pay/invoice processing platforms. The workflow engine...

    Basware is one of the leading purchase-to-pay/invoice processing platforms. The workflow engine allows the implementation of kind of an approval process regardless of detail and exceptions. This power however comes with a price, the implementation can be challenging and the implementation learning curve can be sometimes steep. Consolidated reports are very useful and the ERP integration is sold, which is a must-have for any kind of P2P Platform.

    Pros

    - Intuitive user interface- Solid code base (ie very few bugs/unexpected behaviour compared to the rest of the solutions)- Workflow management is both detailed and clear- Greatly boosts efficiency in invoice processing- Reusable Templates for recurring tasks- Automatic Three-Way Invoice matching with almost no human intervention

    Cons

    - Lacks guides accessible within the platform for tasks- Export of invoice images would be a nice feature- Price (ie expensive)- User support needs to be better for a sophisticated platform such as Basware- Rare instances of the platform freezing up on users.

    Guy
    Guy
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    • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

    Makes getting paid harder

    Reviewed on 2023/10/04

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    Pros

    Signed up in order to submit and monitor invoices for a client, initially thought it was a good system, but still waiting to get paid after 3 months! Great for credit control of the customer, not the supplier!

    Cons

    Submitting an invoice is really hard, format rules seem to be impossible to meet, and user guides are contradictory - if you're sending an attachment, make sure it includes the word attachment, then invoices rejected because they do/don't contain the word attachment

    Verified Reviewer
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    • Industry: Outsourcing/Offshoring
    • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

    Basware is a very good Invoice Processing tool, but could be better

    Reviewed on 2021/10/10

    Overall Basware is a very good invoice processing tool, it can make your work more efficient and...

    Overall Basware is a very good invoice processing tool, it can make your work more efficient and can bring you many solutions. It is highly user friendly and will help you with most of the tasks. However, I do believe that it can have some improvements.

    Pros

    I like the fact that I can send invoices for automatic processing, so they can be matched to their PO numbers. The invoice scanning feature is quite useful for that. Also, the data extraction has probably all the items that you will need to run your in-company reports.

    Cons

    Vendor data changes usually take 24 hours to show in the system. There can not be two sessions open, so you can only process one invoice at a time. The system can be sometimes quite slow.

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    • Industry: Accounting
    • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    My daily accounting software that I can recommend

    Reviewed on 2020/03/30

    Overall I am satisfied with using Basware at work and hopefully I will enjoy working with it for a...

    Overall I am satisfied with using Basware at work and hopefully I will enjoy working with it for a long time.

    Pros

    I am a Basware superuser in my company so I am very familiar with this software (P2P). It is easy to use and most importantly, it is possible to code invoices very fast and effective. My favourite feature is „invoice history” where I can view the entire history of an invoice and any potential errors that have occured.

    Cons

    What I dislike about this software that sometimes I run into some unexpected errors and have to close and open Basware again.

    Response from Basware

    Thank you for taking time to review the Basware P2P software.

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    Basware offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$100,000.00
    • Free Trial: Not Available

    Pricing information is available on request.

    Basware has the following typical customers:

    201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    Basware supports the following languages:

    Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Traditional Chinese

    Basware supports the following devices:

    Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

    Basware integrates with the following applications:

    JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

    Basware offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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