Automated Invoice Processing n8n AI agent for Accounting Firm

Client's Goal: Latin America accounting firm needed to eliminate manual invoice data entry bottleneck that was capping their client capacity at two full-time processors handling 10,000 pages monthly.

Challenges: The firm was dealing with some of the messiest invoice formats imaginable. Handwritten amounts, inconsistent vendor name placement, multi-page PDFs mixing multiple clients, and format variations that required constant human judgment calls. Manual processing maxed out at 10,000 pages monthly with two employees working full-time. Scaling meant hiring more staff, which cut into already thin margins. Error rates created downstream cleanup work that compounded the time sink.

Solution & Approach: I built a fully automated invoice processing system on self-hosted n8n that handles 10,000 pages monthly with 98% accuracy. The system monitors a Google Drive folder for new invoices. When clients upload documents (including multi-page PDFs), Azure Document Intelligence extracts text via OCR at about $5 monthly for this volume. Then GPT-4o mini processes the extracted data through battle-tested prompts that handle edge cases like vendor names spanning two lines or optional tax fields. The AI extracts 70+ data fields per invoice. Processing takes about one minute per document, comparable to manual entry speed but without the human. All extracted data lands in Google Sheets with proper formatting (numbers as numbers, dates as dates). The accounting software ingests this directly and flags anomalies automatically. Human reviewer only touches flagged items, provides feedback, and we iterate the prompt. Built-in Stripe integration handles usage-based billing per page processed.

Key Features: • Processes up to 10,000 invoice pages monthly with 98% accuracy across 70+ data fields • Handles handwritten amounts and inconsistent Latin America invoice formats automatically • Self-hosted architecture eliminates platform fees, running at $20 monthly total cost • Automatic anomaly flagging reduces human review to exceptions only

Results: The firm went from two full-time employees manually entering data to one person overseeing the automated system. Operating costs dropped from $3,200 monthly (Paraguay wage rates) to $20 monthly in API costs, a 99% cost reduction. Processing capacity remained at 10,000 pages monthly but no longer requires scaling headcount. Error detection became proactive rather than reactive, with the accounting software automatically flagging anomalies for human review instead of requiring manual verification of every invoice.

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