Why Sage Intacct Customers Add Lumiya Purchasing

Smarter Purchasing Starts Before the Invoice Arrives

Most organizations recognize the value of automating accounts payable. But focusing solely on invoice processing means you're addressing spending after decisions have been made.

The real opportunity lies earlier in the process.

Lumiya Purchasing for Sage Intacct helps organizations gain control over spending from requisition through payment—ensuring employees buy the right products from the right suppliers with the right approvals before funds are committed.

Lumiya Purchasing extends and enhances Sage Intacct’s native functionality with a purpose-built purchase-to-pay experience that improves governance, efficiency, and visibility.

Procurement-First, Not AP-First

Many purchasing solutions began as invoice automation tools and later added procurement features. Lumiya Purchasing was designed from the ground up as a complete purchase-to-pay solution.

This procurement-first approach gives organizations greater control over purchasing activities, including:

• Requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipts, and invoice processing in a single workflow
• Supplier-specific purchasing controls
• User-based access to suppliers, items, and dimensions
• Enhanced purchasing governance and compliance

By guiding employees toward approved suppliers and predefined purchasing categories, organizations can reduce unapproved spending and improve consistency across departments.

Keep Employees Out of Your Finance System

One of the most significant advantages of Lumiya Purchasing is the ability to separate purchasing activities from financial management.

Employees can create requisitions, approve purchases, receive goods, and process invoices without direct access to Sage Intacct. This creates stronger segregation of duties while reducing the number of users who need access to the finance system.

The result is improved security, better compliance, and a more streamlined experience for non-finance staff.

More Flexible Approval Workflows

Approval bottlenecks are one of the biggest causes of delayed purchasing and invoice processing.

Lumiya Purchasing provides advanced workflow capabilities that go beyond standard approval structures, including:

• Cost center manager approvals
• Project manager approvals
• Role-based approval routing
• User-defined approval workflows
• Mobile approvals from anywhere

Organizations can build approval processes that reflect how their business actually operates, ensuring documents reach the right people quickly and efficiently.

Complete Visibility for Accounts Payable Teams

Finance teams often struggle to understand where invoices are in the approval process.

Lumiya Purchasing provides a centralized view of all purchase invoices, regardless of status. AP teams can instantly see:

• Which invoices are awaiting approval
• Who the next approver is
• Where bottlenecks exist
• Which invoices are ready for payment

This visibility eliminates guesswork, reduces delays, and accelerates payment cycles.

Built Specifically for Sage Intacct

Perhaps the biggest differentiator is that Lumiya Purchasing wasn't adapted to work with Sage Intacct—it was built specifically for it.

Unlike generic procurement applications that offer basic integrations, Lumiya Purchasing was developed by a Sage Intacct partner to take full advantage of Sage Intacct's dimensions, projects, and financial framework.

The result is a seamless experience that extends Sage Intacct while maintaining data integrity and synchronization across the entire purchasing lifecycle.

Better Control. Faster Approvals. Smarter Spending.

Organizations don't add Lumiya Purchasing because Sage Intacct lacks purchasing functionality. They choose Lumiya Purchasing because they need deeper purchasing controls, stronger governance, greater visibility, and more flexible workflows than Sage Intacct alone provides.

By combining intelligent purchasing automation with a purpose-built Sage Intacct integration, Lumiya Purchasing helps organizations control spend before it happens, accelerate approvals, and give finance teams the visibility they need to make better decisions.

That's the difference between managing purchases and truly controlling them.