Guide
Quick start guide
Registration, connecting your accounting system, and the three upload options.
Resources
Videos, guides and articles
Everything for setting Cosmic Bills up and getting the most out of it, in one place.
Start here
The three things worth reading first
Guide
Get started for Xero users
The Xero authorisation flow in detail, including what to do when the organisation picker will not cooperate.
Knowledge base
All user guides
Searchable help covering setup, coding, subscriptions and data handling.
Videos
Tutorial videos
Short walkthroughs of the parts people ask about most: connecting, mapping, editing and approving.
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How to map suppliers to a chart of accounts
Supplier mapping, covered in more detail.
How to do product mapping
Mapping product codes on your bills to the accounts they belong to.
How to approve your bills, the easy and simple way
The approval step, and choosing which bills to post.
Blog
Latest articles
Longer pieces on accounts payable automation and how document extraction works.
Accounts payable
Why accounts payable is the process worth automating first
Of everything a finance team does, accounts payable is high-volume, rule-driven and slow to optimise. That is why it goes first.Xero
The Cosmic Bills features Xero users get the most out of
Scan history, PDF preview, supplier mapping and line splitting — the parts people actually use every week.Accounts payable
How much time does bill entry actually take?
Manual entry of a dozen multi-line bills is slow enough to be worth measuring. Here is how to work out what yours costs.
Stop retyping supplier bills
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