Who Uses Lightyear?
Lightyear is industry agnostic and scales from SME up to enterprise. Our main client base includes hospitality, retail, construction, manufacturing and aged care.
What Is Lightyear?
Lightyear is the world's fastest Purchasing and Accounts Payable tool suite designed for SMEs to large businesses. Save up to 80% of your time by speeding up processing, increasing collaboration and automating your workflow.
Break free from data entry with automated line-by-line data extraction. Create, approve & track orders. Speed up approvals with customisable approval workflows & improve collaboration & compliance with our suite of messaging, note-taking, audit and communication tools.
Lightyear Details
Lightyear
https://www.lightyear.cloud/
Founded 2018
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Lightyear deployment and support
Support
- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
Deployment
- Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- Mac (Desktop)
- Windows (Desktop)
- Linux (Desktop)
- Android (Mobile)
- iPhone (Mobile)
- iPad (Mobile)
Training
- Live Online
- Webinars
- Documentation
- Videos
Lightyear Features
Accounts Payable Software
- 1099 Preparation
- ACH Payment Processing
- API
- Accounting
- Accounting Integration
- Activity Dashboard
- Aging Tracking
- Alerts/Notifications
- Approval Process Control
- Audit Management
- Audit Trail
- Bank Reconciliation
- Billing & Invoicing
- Cash Flow Management
- Cash Management
- Check Writing
- Compliance Management
- Configurable Workflow
- Customisable Reports
- Data Extraction
- Data Import/Export
- Document Management
- Document Storage
- Duplicate Payment Alert
- ERP
- Electronic Funds Transfer
- Electronic Payments
- Expense Tracking
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Management
- Fraud Detection
- General Ledger
- Inventory Management
- Invoice Management
- Invoice Processing
- Mobile Access
- Multi-Currency
- PO Reconciliation
- Purchase Order Management
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Reporting
- Receipt Management
- Recurring Payments
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Status Tracking
- Supplier Management
- Third Party Integrations
- Vendor Management
- Workflow Management
Purchasing Software
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Accounting
- Accounting Integration
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Alerts/Notifications
- Approval Process Control
- Audit Management
- Audit Trail
- Budget Control
- Budgeting/Forecasting
- Cataloguing/Categorisation
- Compliance Management
- Contract/License Management
- Customisable Reports
- Customisable Templates
- Data Import/Export
- Expense Tracking
- Inventory Management
- Inventory Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Invoice Processing
- Multi-Currency
- Multi-Location
- Order Management
- Order Processing
- Order Tracking
- Procurement Management
- Purchase Order Management
- Purchasing & Receiving
- Purchasing Reports
- Quotes/Estimates
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Reporting
- Receipt Management
- Reporting & Statistics
- Requisition Management
- Search/Filter
- Shipping Management
- Sourcing Management
- Spend Analysis
- Spend Control
- Spend Management
- Supplier Management
- Third Party Integrations
- User Management
- Vendor Management
- Warehouse Management
- Workflow Management
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Lightyear Reviews for UK Users
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Daniel V.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 11/03/2021
"Great Software to Streamline your Accounts Payable Process"
Comments: I find Lightyear easy to use and I have only had positive feedback from clients.
Pros: I love the automation of data extraction and the built in approval process Lightyear has to offer. It helps me to get my clients data correct, having the correct expenses and payables, and it means I can get multiple levels of approvals before the invoice hits the GL.
Cons: Sometimes the OCR doesn't work the way I expect, but I know they are constantly improving the software and I'm confident it will be better in future.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 11/03/2021
Leigh D.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 04/09/2020
"Excellent Accounts Payable System"
Comments: Our clients can see where their AP invoices are at any point in time as well as the value of AP "in progress". The fact that the system picks up duplicates is the game changer for us. Reconciling & "filing" statements is an absolute breeze.
Pros: We love how this product enables our clients to check & approve their invoices before the invoices land in Xero. We know that anything in Xero is checked & ready to be paid. Easy for multiple people to have access & sign off. All AP is in one place & finding historical invoices is a breeze.
Cons: Reading OCR receipts has been a bit behind other competitors but improvement is coming through really quickly.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 04/09/2020
Michael C.
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Overall Rating1 /5
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Ease of Use1 /5
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Features & Functionality1 /5
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Customer Support1 /5
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Value for Money1 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 09/01/2019
"Failure"
Comments: Terrible is all i can say to be honest
Pros: Nothing to like about light year it is doesn’t work simple
Cons: Slow, Unstable, inaccurate ocr of invoices causing excessive manual re-entry of invoices, customer support non existent as they can’t do anything as it is a terrible system I have waited for improvements over the last 3 months they haven’t happened stay from lightyear find something else
Vendor Response
by Lightyear on 08/01/2020
Hi Michael, Thank you for the feedback. I've reviewed your history on our system and I believe you were using our system in the early days whilst it was still in Beta and were also having some connection issues with internet speeds. I'm sorry you didn't have a great experience with the product, certainly not what we strive for at Lightyear.
Lightyear is now in full release and has been receiving great reviews all round with a much improved user experience and speed. Our team would be very happy to spend some time with you and show you the product now if you like. Just drop the team a line if so.. Many thanks, Chris.
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- Reviewed on 09/01/2019
Mark A.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for MoneyUnrated
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 24/03/2021
"Terrific Service and a Continually Improving Product"
Comments: Overall, it's been fantastic. There is no such thing as a perfect system, but it is the people behind the software which really impress me. The fact that when things go awry, it is so easy to open the instant chat and speak to [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] is a great touch. The service is paramount. I've had issues which were solved overnight which comes to show they really do listen.
Pros: Lightyear is visually pleasing-it's quite simple to use and understand. From the user perspective who inputs data on invoices and approves them, it's straightforward and the layout of the software does not show you more than what you need to see, however, underneath the simple processes there is complexity. Lightyear makes supplier creation, GL code settings linked to export files such as Excel, and GST codes etc are somehow made simple to set up. One thing I find particularly great is whenever I input an ABN number during the Supplier Creation process, it autofills the Supplier Name field. Additionally, this is a drop down menu, so i am able to choose ANY of the Business Names linked to this ABN.
Cons: Sometimes, there have been system bugs and I'm unable to export data for a brief amount of time, or when we top up credits to use the system, the old credits are not rolled over their expiry date. It would be great if there was a notification in place to let us know that our credits are expiring soon or we are running low. Also, there are some things which cannot be customised. For example, the Export to File which is a function that exports invoice data into a spreadsheet, cannot be modified from my end. Lightyear do add features from time to time, but I'm not sure if consumer recommendations are actually involved in the process.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 24/03/2021
Verified Reviewer
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 12/06/2020
"Game changer"
Comments: Fantastic, over the couple of years I have been using the program I have had nothing less than outstanding service from the support team and after initially only using it for my larger clients, it has been an easy decision to bring all my clients across to the platform. The program is intuitive to use and easy to implement and scale up or down depending on the client and approvals process needed.
Pros: The invoice approval function was the reason for initially coming across to Lightyear but the statement reconciliation process was a hidden surprise that has enabled my last remaining paper based clients to take the leap to being completely paperless. The integrity of the data being exported to the accounting software is much better than other programs.
Cons: My clients who use purchase orders are currently needing to batch together the PO pdf & supplier invoice images before sending to Lightyear which would be amazing if we could either match them up within the app, or issue PO's direct from the app which are then able to be viewed with the supplier invoice.
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- Reviewed on 12/06/2020
