The purchase orders nobody wants to type
When a customer emails a purchase order, someone on your team becomes a human OCR engine: reading the PO number, matching the customer, finding each SKU, checking the price, and entering quantities — often across 10 screens and dozens of clicks. It's slow, it's expensive, and it's where wrong-SKU and wrong-price errors creep in.
Purchase order automation replaces that work. OrderPier captures the document, extracts the structured data, validates it, and writes the order — so your team reviews exceptions instead of typing every order.
From attachment to order
- Capture: forward the email or connect a shared mailbox.
- Extract: every header field and line item, read from the PDF directly.
- Validate: customer, items, pricing, and availability checked against your ERP.
- Post: a sales order is created; exceptions route to review.
Built for the long tail
EDI handles your biggest customers. Purchase order automation handles everyone else — the regional accounts, the one-off reorders, the customer who will never send anything but a PDF. That long tail is usually a quarter of your order volume and the majority of your manual effort.
Frequently asked questions
- What PO formats can it read?
- Digital PDFs, scanned and faxed documents, images, and plain-text email bodies. Because extraction is LLM-based, new and unusual layouts work without setup.
- Can it match customer part numbers to our SKUs?
- Yes. Line items are matched to your item master, including customer-specific part numbers and descriptions, with pricing validated before the order is created.
- Is there an API?
- Yes, on Scale and Enterprise plans. You can also run everything through email forwarding with no integration work.