Lightyear 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Lightyear

4.9

(190)

FrontRunner 2026

Pricing

Starting at £130.00 per month

About Lightyear

Lightyear is an industry-leading cloud platform providing intelligent automation solutions for large SMEs & Enterprise level Purchasing & Accounts Payables processes. Designed to work across all industries, our end-to-end approvals workflows are up to 80% faster than traditional methods, enabling purchase orders & invoices to be approved in seconds and removing paper from the office.

Advanced Automation: Automatically assign general ledger (GL) codes, tax rates, categories, or departments to line items, streamlining data processing and improving accuracy.

Price Verification: Compare product prices against verified supplier pricing, ensuring invoice accuracy and cost control.

Seamless Integrations:

Lightyear integrates seamlessly with leading third-party applications, including Abcom, MYOB, Xero, Sage 50, Fuelsoft, and more. This enables smooth data synchronization and enhances overall workflow efficiency.

Mobile Applications:

Lightyear offers dedicated mobile applications for both iOS and Android platforms, allowing you to access and manage accounts payable processes on the go.

Subscription and Support:

Lightyear is available through monthly subscriptions, providing fle...

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Lightyear Pricing and Plans

Starting price: £130.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Starter

£130.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

Accounting Integrations
Approvals Workflow
Automated Line-Item Coding
Line-Item Data-Extraction
Automated Statement Reconciliation
Purchase Orders
Live Chat, Email and Telephone Support

Business

£279.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

Accounting Integrations
Approvals Workflow
Automated Line-Item Coding
Line-Item Data-Extraction
Automatic Statement Reconciliation
3-Way Purchase Order Matching
Inventory Managemet
Purchase Orders
Live Chat, Email and Telephone Support
Goods Received Notes

Enterprise

£499.00

usage based, per month

Plan includes:

Accounting Integrations
Approvals Workflow
Automated Line-Item Coding
Line-Item Data-Extraction
Purchase Orders
Automatic Statement Reconciliation
Live Chat, Email and Telephone Support
Goods Received Notes
3-Way Purchase Order Matching
Inventory Managemet

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Lightyear Features

Popular features found in Accounts Payable
ACH Payment Processing
Audit Trail
Compliance Management
Document Management
Duplicate Payment Alert
ERP integration
Expense Tracking
Mobile Access
Multi-Currency
Process/Workflow Automation
More features of Lightyear
Access Controls/Permissions
Accounting
Accounting Integration
Accounts Payable
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Aging Tracking
AI/Machine Learning
Alerts/Notifications
API
Approval Process Control
Approval Workflow
Audit Management
Auto Extraction
Bank Reconciliation
Billing & Invoicing
Cash Flow Management
Cash Management
Catalog Management
Categorization/Grouping
Credit Note
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
Data Mapping
Data Storage Management
Data Verification
Document Extraction
Document Storage
Electronic Payments
Expense Claims
Financial Analysis
Financial Management
For Small Businesses
Fraud Detection
General Ledger
Image Extraction
Inventory Management
Invoice Creation
Invoice History
Invoice Management
Invoice Processing
Multi-Language
Multi-Location
Online Invoicing
Optical Character Recognition
Payment Reconciliation
Pricing Extraction
Purchase Order Management
Purchase Order Reconciliation
Purchasing & Receiving
Purchasing Reports
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Receipt Management
Recurring Payments
Recurring/Subscription Billing
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Requisition Management
Search/Filter
Spend Analysis
Spend Management
Status Tracking
Supplier Management
Tax Calculation
Tax Management
Third-Party Integrations
Time & Expense Tracking
Transaction History
User Management
Vendor Management
Workflow Management

Lightyear Integrations

Xero

Integration rated 4.8 from 15 reviews

Sage 50 Accounting

NetSuite

MYOB Acumatica

QuickBooks Online

Infor SunSystems

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Lightyear User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

92%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.9

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.9

Functionality

4.8

Denis G.

Verified reviewer

Hospitality

501-1000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2024

The best product for hospitality industry

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The program is easy to learn and explain to other non-finance people to use. It offers the best customer support which is very friendly and fast-reacted to any issues arise.

Cons:

The best integration with XERO and BEPOZ.

Melissa A.

Verified reviewer

Retail

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

Bookkeeper - KUB

Excellent really happy this business moved to Lightyear highly recommend for AP use with xero not sure about other accounting packages but I'm sure it would be amazing.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

After we reviewed a number of AP apps, Lightyear was by far easier to use and can cater to all your invoicing needs. Once mapped correctly you can fly through your invoices with 100% accuracy. Matching invoices to statement function is also terrific. [sensitive content hidden] was amazing her training, patience and knowledge of Lightyear was fantastic, it was fun learning what lightyear was capable of. [sensitive content hidden] explained everything as our first point of contact with Lightyear and he too was very helpful and knowledgeable.

Cons:

Nothing didn't like really, once you know what to do and mapping is sorted it is easier at first you think there is a bit to work through, but Lightyear assist with the set up.

Reasons for switching to Lightyear

Wasn't doing enough to meet the business needs.

Annette P.

Verified reviewer

Construction

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Lightyear - Approval process

While we do not use Lightyear to its full capacity, the approval process certainly works for us to ensure everyone is across the project.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Streamlines our approval process so all staff required in process are up to date. Easy to use and follow

Cons:

Mapping can be a little arduous at times, but much easier once you know what you are doing. Other than that, no issues.

Matthew C.

Verified reviewer

Retail

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed November 2025

Lightyear and Beyond

Thumbs up - I would thoroughly recommend. A great package that reduces cost of paper and postage that was used on previous system - Cost Effective

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I have worked around Accounts Payable for more than 30 years and have never worked on a system that is so comprehensively detailed and easy to use - I can't ask for more. Everything at my fingertips. Nice to remove the paper/postage/scanning element. Support for bugs and development at the other end of Phone and resolutions are immediate or put forward for future development. Lightyear would save money re: employment, as saves valuable time and requires less staff. Great tool to educate new staff. Haven't included Procurement package but I guess would integrate with PL. No security issues within the start of 2024 to now. Honest I would recommend. Even a Trial would open your eyes.

Cons:

Obviously the integration of any system can be daunting. But the end result is well worth the Pain..

Dolly F.

Verified reviewer

Primary/ Secondary Education

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2025

A fabulous system for seamless invoice processing, loved by all that use it.

It's an amazing system that works incredibly well for us. It speeds things up, eliminates keying in errors and is very popular by all users here. On the odd occasion that something doesn't run smoothly for any reason, the help/chat team are quick, efficient and above all very friendly and patient.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

A seamless system, easy to navigate for accounting minded staff and others that are not so financial minded that are required to approve/sign off invoices. Its visual, easy to find archived invoices, can download, print etc all at the click of a button.

Cons:

No option to alter the vat - rounding by LY is often different to supplier invoices - being able to alter the given vat figure by a small amount would be great. Being able to filter by "task approver" on the approvals and review tabs would also be helpful. If an Approver calls about an invoice, and there's pages and pages, being able to filter by invoices assigned to a specific user would be awesome.

Hazel K.

Verified reviewer

Retail

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed October 2025

Henderson Foodservice

I think l its a fantastic system and well maintained with the Lightyear Team. I feel is user friendly and easy to work through all the processes. The managers love that they can check back on invoices and see what has been processed and approved. It's great when it come to the end of year audits as we can access the invoice quickly and efficiently.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Its is very easy to use. You have all you invoices on one system and able to search back to archive invoices. You can run reports for different departments to check if there on budget. It good for audit purpose easy to access. You have less manually input as it matches invoices against PO's and statements. The support of the Lightyear Team is instant efficient and very friendly always happy to help you and resolve it quickly.

Cons:

When Lightyear do an update it seems to effects my system and i have to refresh or have to completely come out of the system or it takes me out of the menu i'm on. Some of the PO's don't close automatically and i have to match these off manually each month - as the PO's would be used for our end of month balancing figures.

Pauline T.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed December 2025

Lightyear - both time and error saving

As a client, I’d say Lightyear’s purchase order system is a huge time-saver and incredibly easy to use. The automated approvals and two-way matching has cut down errors and streamlined our workflow, while the support team has been responsive and helpful. The only challenge was the initial setup and learning curve, but once we got past that, the efficiency gains and cost savings have been great.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that the purchase order system is intuitive and new staff pick it up very quickly. The automated approvals keep everything moving without delays and the two-way matching between POs and invoices has drastically cut down on errors and we’ve saved countless hours every month.

Cons:

The initial learning about the various tabs/workflows and finding a way to make it work best for us. Also, not being able to have a free in person session about 6 months in to work through small queries.

Sue W.

Verified reviewer

Wholesale

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Lightyear - Easy accounts payable system

The Lightyear team are helpful and proactive to sort out any bugs and issues that come up. It's an easy to use system with a good archiving facility.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Lightyear is easy to use as an accounts payable program saving a huge amount of time verses manually entering invoices and helping to minimize human error. It has purchase order and statement modules and is constantly evolving and improving to allow customers to map invoices to meet their own company needs.

Cons:

No cons. Like any program you use, you still need to check and make required changes as needed for your own business process.

Verified

Reviewer

Medical Devices

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

User-Friendly Platform

It’s been amazing so far - it significantly cuts down on manual typing and helps me process AP tasks far more efficiently.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

User-friendly and intuitive interface. Saves time by reducing manual typing of invoice details. Connected to accounting software like Xero, allowing seamless syncing of approved invoices. Tracks invoice activity-shows who has approved it Flags duplicate invoices, helping prevent errors. Their chat support is always available and very helpful.

Cons:

I can’t sync other details of the supplier that I have created in Lightyear to Xero, such as bank details or contact information. It only syncs the necessary information, like the supplier’s name and invoice details.

Shaun S.

Verified reviewer

Renewables & Environment

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed October 2025

Lightyear Review

I was a bit apprehensive about moving over to a new software but it's actually a lot better than my previous PO system. It's quick, it's easy and I love it!!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I enjoy it's ease of use, quick to raise a PO and the automated email going to the supplier once approved

Cons:

Sometimes when raising a PO and I enter all the details, I attach the quote and the form resets so I have to go all through the process again. Also there is the "Approved" tab which is misleading as nothing in there is actually approved.....should be called "Pre-Approval" or "Submitted" then the "Ordered" tab should be called "Approved" not sure you really need the "Draft" or "Approval Tab"

Reasons for switching to Lightyear

Better program to keep track of expenditure

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