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Intuit Buys AP Software Biz Invitco

Roger Gregg, Invitco On the heels of its purchase of inventory software company, Lettuce, Intuit has announced the acquisition of Australian start-up, Invitco. The Sydney-based company developed cloud-based data extraction technology that is used in its accounts payable processing product, Invitbox. Intuit's rival Xero named Invitco as its Emerging Add-On Partner of the Year for 2013.

Intuit, which did not disclose terms for either purchase, says the Invicto deal is the seventh completed during the fiscal year ending July 31. Intuit is not commenting on published reports it paid $30 million for Lettuce.

Invitco president Roger Gregg promised the basic product design and the applications openness to other accounting packages will remain. In a prepared statement, he said "All the buttons that you see in Invitbox will remain. Along with Intuit, we are committed to an open API approach, allowing you to continue to choose which accountancy software you feel is right for you."

Invitco describes its product as "the world's first online automatic data-extraction mailbox for receipt, approval and storage of supplier bills. Users choose an email address and a supplier emails bills in PDF format to that address. Invitbox strips out bills and data and an audit trail is established, recording the originator and date of receipt. All data is extracted, including line item information.

A number of products already integrate with Invitbox. These include Xero, MYOB, NetSuite, QuickBooks and Australia's Reckon. The company's website says coming soon are connections to the online Reckon One, Sage and Dynamics (exact products not specified), and five POS/inventory systems, along with other accounting products.

Monthly and one-time bulk buy pricing is offered with the amount in tiers that offer credits that cover the number of bills to be processed. For 25 or fewer bills, the price is $15 per month. The top tier is $3,200 monthly for 11,500 credits. The lowest bulk-buy level is a one-time payment of $99 for 150 credits and highest price is a one-time fee of $14,999 for 50,000 credits.

The Lettuce deal is important for Intuit as its QuickBooks Online does not support inventory-based companies. Cloud-based Lettuce offers order, inventory, shipping, customer and vendor management. For $39 monthly, its Tier-1 pricing offers online order and customer management, online invoicing and credit-card processing. The wholesale e-commerce portal costs another $50 per month.

Tier 2 price of $89 monthly adds online inventory management, accounting integration and links to UPS, Fedex, and stamps.com, along with e-commerce integration. The portal is also extra at this level. The portal is free with the $189-per month Tier-3 pricing and employee permissions are also included.

Besides Lettuce and Invitco, Good April, Full Slate, Level Up Analytics and Prestwick Services have been acquired by Intuit during the current fiscal year.

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