We do not fight ReadSoft inside SAP. We feed it.
This is the one page on this site that argues for the competitor. ReadSoft is invoice capture fused with SAP through Process Director: matching against live master data, posting inside the ERP, with approvals in SAP. Beating that head-on in accounts payable is a multi-year project and we will not pitch it. What we will do is take every document that is not an SAP invoice.
The honest read
- Proven line-item accuracy on invoices, tuned over two decades
- SAP certification, PO matching, EDI and Ariba
- Approval workflow living inside the ERP
- Every document type including an invoice — claims, contracts, IDs, delivery notes, dossiers
- Every customer not standardised on SAP
- The general-purpose capture layer that feeds AP through XML mapping and companion files
- Multi-tenancy for shared-service centres running several ERPs
Sit beside AP, not in front of it. The XML mapping and companion-file paths already speak its language.
KognitCapture vs ReadSoft, side by side
| Capability | KognitCapture | ReadSoft |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | General-purpose capture across every document class | Invoice capture fused with the ERP |
| ERP posting | Export to REST, JDBC, files, S/FTP, mail, buses; mapped XML | Posts inside SAP through Process Director |
| Line items | Table extraction, geometric or grammar-constrained — new code, bake-off first | Two decades of tuning |
| Approvals | Workflow engine with routing and SLA | In SAP |
What each one costs to run
Put in your own volume →| KognitCapture | ReadSoft | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence shape | One annual licence per installation, by turnover band; unlimited pages | Invoice volume + SAP add-on |
| Typical annual outlay | Licence from €900 + your infrastructure and team | Enterprise contract |
| Marginal cost per page | €0 local · tokens only if you choose a remote model | Per invoice |
| Who runs it | You do, on your own hardware | SAP Basis plus the AP team |
Moving from ReadSoft.
There is usually nothing to migrate. The pattern that works is parallel: AP stays where it is, everything else moves here, and one audit trail covers both.
Read the migration brief →Questions buyers ask us about ReadSoft
01So you will not quote against ReadSoft for AP?
Not on SAP-native accounts payable with live master-data matching. We will quote for the other 70% of the documents in the building, and we will say the same thing on the first call as on the last.
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