# Document and invoice processing automation

> Document and invoice processing automation at ellul.ai: £2,995, a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts, never charged by the hour. A business keying in invoices and forms by hand.

- Price: £2,995 (one-off)
- Time: 1 to 2 weeks
- Page: https://ellul.ai/services/document-processing

## What is included
- Invoices and documents read from your inbox or a folder
- Supplier, dates, totals and line items pulled out and checked
- Anything unclear sent to a person to confirm
- OCR and AI usage on your own account, at cost

## What other providers charge
2 comparable published prices read; too few for a median. Every price with its source: https://ellul.ai/services/document-processing/readings.json

## How many people are asking for it
67 posts on Reddit asked to hire someone for document and invoice processing automation between November 2025 and November 2026, 25 of them in the last 90 days, most on r/B2BForHire, r/freelance_forhire, r/slavelabour.

## Paid separately, at cost
- OCR and AI usage, billed to your own account at cost
- An automation platform plan, such as Make or Zapier, if one is used

## What the buyer supplies
- Sample documents of every type and layout you receive
- Access to the inbox or folder and to the system the data goes into

## What the price does not cover
- A person confirms anything the system is unsure of; it does not remove review
- Built for the document types and layouts agreed at the start

## A cheaper way to do it
- Xero's Smart Document capture reads receipts and invoices into Xero and is included on all its small business plans at no extra cost. Source: [Xero: Smart Document capture](https://www.xero.com/uk/accounting-software/store-files/)

Get a written fixed quote: https://ellul.ai/services/document-processing#quote