Calitem vs Digits: AP automation or general ledger
Digits offers accounting and general ledger with AI. Calitem is integrated into the supplier invoice routing before posting to ERP.
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Short answer
Choose Calitem to automate business processes with custom workflows, including purchase checks, line-level allocations and your own approval rules. It adapts to the rules of companies and accounting firms and generates journal entries for their ERP.
Consider Digits if you are looking for a proprietary ledger accounting platform that brings together records, monthly closing, invoicing and payments, rather than adding automation to your current ERP.
What is Digits and how does it work?
Digits is AI accounting software for businesses and accounting professionals. Its platform includes its own general ledger and brings together categorization of movements, closing, reports, invoices issued and payments. The decision involves evaluating where the company's accounting will live.
This is how the work is organized:
- Connect the sources.It incorporates banks, cards and other financial systems.
- Prepare and review records.The platform categorizes operations and indicates movements that need review.
- Close and consult.The team uses its closing and reporting functions on the same general ledger.
Digits proposes a complete accounting system. Calitem integrates with the company's ERP to automate the accounts payable work that powers it.
When Digits fits
- Change accounting system.You want to evaluate a complete general ledger and accounting platform.
- Monthly closing.You look for review and closure tools next to the records.
- Joint financial management.You want to bring billing, payments and reports together in one environment.
What is Calitem?
Calitem is the AI accounting system that automates accounts payable, from receiving documents to posting journal entries in your ERP.
It is designed for companies where each invoice can require several checks: finding the purchase order, checking what was received, allocating the expense and obtaining the right approval. Calitem connects this work with your accounting rules and business systems.
Where Digits has the advantage
Own ledger
Digits brings accounting together on its own platform. It can fit when you are choosing or replacing the accounting system, because the operation record and the results query live in the same product.
Monthly closing tools
Its catalog includes Agentic Close and quality controls on records. It is relevant for teams looking to organize the month's review within their accounting software, in addition to processing documents.
Interactive financial reports
Digits offers dashboards and reports on income, expenses and cash. The team can view the results from the same platform where operations are categorized and reviewed.
Billing and payments in one environment
The offer includes issuing invoices and Bill Pay. This allows the management of clients and suppliers to be jointly evaluated when the company wants to centralize both within its accounting system.
Where Calitem has the advantage
Documents from your team channels
Calitem receives invoices and documents from email, WhatsApp, Teams and shared repositories. A person in a store or warehouse can send a photo without installing another app. The documentation enters the same accounting process, although it arrives through different channels.
Extraction tailored to your documents
The AI extracts general data, lines and specific fields of your operation. Calitem processes up to 250 documents every five minutes, to absorb large volumes without transcribing invoices one by one. Fields with low confidence are reviewed.
Duplicate invoices under control
Calitem detects duplicate documents automatically. When the same invoice arrives through different channels, your team can identify repetition before it turns into more accounting work.
Matching invoices, purchase orders and delivery notes
Calitem matches the three documents line by line and checks references, quantities, prices and taxes. If more units are invoiced than received, or a price changes, it flags the difference for your team to review before posting.
Accounts and cost centers by line
One invoice can include expenses from several stores, departments or projects. Calitem assigns categories, subaccounts and cost centres to each line using your chart of accounts and the team’s previous classifications.
Approvals that follow your rules
Define who must approve based on the amount, legal entity, cost centre or supplier. Calitem routes each document through the appropriate workflow and can automatically approve transactions that meet your limits.
AI-generated accounting entries
Calitem uses your chart of accounts and previous accounting decisions to generate journal entries and send them to your ERP. Allocations are included, so the team does not have to re-enter information that has already been processed.
Integrations that connect the entire operation
Calitem connects the ERP to stock systems, POS and internal tools using native integrations and an open API. Specific connections adapt to the flow and data your operation needs, to reduce manual transfers between systems.
Several companies, well-organized accounting
Calitem supports multiple legal entities and cost centres. Classifications and approval routes follow your operational structure, whether you are a group of companies or an accounting firm managing clients’ accounts.
Analysis of accounting information
Calitem allows you to analyze the accounting and accounts payable information it processes. Your team can use that data to track the operation and understand expenses, as well as complete the work on each invoice.
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Choose Digits if…
- You want to evaluate a complete general ledger and accounting platform.
- You look for review and closure tools next to the records.
- You want to bring billing, payments and reports together in one environment.
Choose Calitem if…
- You manage a high volume of invoices or processes that require several checks before posting.
- You need to cross invoices, orders and delivery notes by line and detect differences in quantities or prices.
- You distribute the expense of the same invoice between different accounts and cost centers.
- You want to configure approvals by company code, cost center, amount, or supplier.
- You are looking to automate the generation of entries with your chart of accounts and previous classifications.
- You need to connect the ERP with stock systems, POS or other tools in your operation.
Frequently asked questions about Digits and Calitem
When to choose Digits and when to choose Calitem?
Digits is a good fit if you are looking for a proprietary ledger accounting platform that brings together records, monthly closing, invoicing and payments, rather than adding automation to your existing ERP. Calitem is designed to automate a high volume of documents and accounts payable processes with purchase reconciliation, allocations by line and approvals adapted to the company or accounting firm, up to the entry in the ERP.
What programs does Calitem integrate with?
Calitem integrates with most ERP available on the market, such as A3, Sage, SAP, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Holded and more than 20 others. Available dimensions vary by connector: channels in a3innuva, projects in Sage, and tags in Holded.
How does Calitem manage cost centers?
Calitem uses projects, channels or other dimensions depending on your accounting software. It can assign them automatically using addresses, descriptions, suppliers or products.
How does Calitem match invoices, delivery notes and purchase orders?
Calitem’s document management system matches invoices, purchase orders and delivery notes and compares their products. It checks references, quantities, prices and taxes line by line and flags differences for review.
How does duplicate detection work in Calitem?
Calitem identifies duplicates based on the digital ID of each document and crossing data such as amounts, document number and supplier to flag duplicates to the user.
How does the workflow builder in Calitem work?
In Calitem you can configure routes by company code, cost center, amount or supplier, with automatic approval for operations that comply with your rules.