Account Payable Automation for Hospices
Save Time on Admin, So You Can Focus on Care
Our cloud-based accounts payable automation platform streamlines purchasing, invoice approvals, and supplier payments in one simple system.
Staff can raise purchase requests quickly, invoices are captured automatically, and approvals happen digitally. With Zahara, hospice finance teams gain clear visibility of spending, stronger financial control, and more time to focus on supporting patient care.
Trusted by finance teams across care and hospice organisations
Purchase-to-Pay for Hospices
How does Zahara help hospices save time and control spend?
Zahara replaces paper-based purchasing and invoice processes with clear digital workflows that are simple for hospice staff to use.
Finance teams can see requests, approvals, invoices, and committed spend in one system, helping them reduce admin, improve control, and support better financial oversight.
See if Zahara is a good fit for you in under 15 minutes.
Schedule a Scoping CallRaise requests quickly
Staff can create purchase requests in just a few steps, giving finance teams the information they need before spend is committed.
Automate invoice approvals
Invoices are captured digitally and routed to the right manager for approval, reducing paperwork and manual chasing.
See spending clearly
Finance teams can monitor committed and actual spend across departments, helping hospices stay within budgets and maintain oversight.
Keep finance records together
Requests, approvals, invoices, comments, and supporting documents are stored in one place for clearer reporting and audit trails.
Hospice Finance Challenges
Why do hospices need AP automation?
Hospices often operate with small finance teams while managing complex spending across multiple departments. At the same time, they must maintain strong financial control and transparency for trustees, donors, and regulators.
Manual purchasing, invoice approvals, and payment processes create unnecessary administrative work and increase the risk of errors or missed approvals. Zahara helps hospices replace these tasks with simple, controlled digital workflows.
Limited time and resources
Small finance teams often manage purchasing, invoices, and approvals alongside many other responsibilities, leaving little time for manual admin.
Too much paperwork
Paper forms, printed invoices, and manual sign-offs create unnecessary admin for teams that need simple and reliable finance processes.
Manual processes slow everything down
Paper approvals and email invoices make spending harder to track, delay decisions, and leave finance teams chasing people for updates.
Complex spending across departments
Hospices manage purchasing across clinical, care, fundraising, retail, estates, and admin teams, each with different budgets and needs.
Purchase-to-Pay Workflow — Hospices
Control hospice spending from request to invoice
Every purchase follows a clear process. Teams create purchase requests, approvals are routed automatically and invoices are captured using AI with no manual data entry.
Finance can track committed spend and supplier costs across departments as requests and invoices move through approval.
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Seamless AP automation,
tailored to your finance system.
Zahara integrates with the tools your finance team already trusts, including Xero, QuickBooks, Sage and MYOB.
CITU
Zahara is intuitive and easy to use. It has helped us gain control of our purchasing, deliver our projects on budget, improve cashflow and relationships with our suppliers and sub-contractorsRead the full case study: how Zahara helped Citu
Frequently asked questions
If you're exploring accounts payable automation, you may have a few questions. Here are answers to the most common things finance teams ask when evaluating Zahara.
Yes. Zahara is designed to be easy to use and quick to adopt. Small finance teams can automate purchasing and invoice processes without adding complexity or requiring large IT resources.
Zahara integrates with many popular accounting systems. Approved invoices and financial data can be exported directly to the accounting system, reducing manual data entry and saving time.
Yes. Staff can create purchase requests in Zahara in just a few steps. Requests are automatically routed to the appropriate manager for approval, reducing delays and improving accountability.
Zahara connects purchase requests, approvals, and supplier invoices in one system. Finance teams can see committed spend before invoices arrive, helping hospices stay within budgets and maintain financial oversight.
