This guide will explain how to approve an early payment invoice in SmartPay.
If you receive an Early payment invoice, you need to accept it within 4 business days in order to trigger the payment from the financing partner to the supplier.
The Early payment is completed automatically online with no manual intervention or phone calls.
Once approved, you can schedule and pay the invoice according to the invoice payment terms.
Approving an early payment invoice
- Click on the SmartPay button located on the side menu, to view and click on Accounts Payable
- The Requiring Attention section on the Dashboard tab will show the number of Early payment invoices that are due to be approved
- Then click on the Early payment approval due button
- Select the supplier on the Awaiting approval tab
- Find the Early payment invoice with the blue bolt icon
- Click on the Early payment invoice
- To approve this invoice, click on the Approve all button located at the top right of your screen
- Finally a pop-up will then appear with all the details of this Early payment invoice, to confirm this click on the Approve all button in the pop-up
After the approval, you can proceed to the Ready to pay tab to complete the payment