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My suppliers send me invoices by email.

I would like to be able to forward that email to a (unique) email address at xero that can preprocess that bill and put it in a task list of draft bills so accounts payable can then check them and put them into xero formally for payment.

I envisage this working just like tripit.com - there I can email an itinerary document from say an airline or hotel and it will automatically parse the contents, work out the flights, departure times, arrival times, etc and create entries in tripit for me.

I would hope that xero could also parse invoices for:

1. match supplier with existing supplier where possible (much like rules based matching of payments)
2. create entries for line items on the invoice
3. determine GST for each line item
4. work out the due date
5. create a draft bill for review and approval (and perhaps completion of anything that could not be worked out
6. put the attachment from the email and perhaps the forwarded email itself in the attachments to the draft bill

Thanks
Andrew.