A Tool for Organizing Email Invoices — Without Copying Them into a Spreadsheet
If you have been searching for a tool for organizing email invoices, you do not want another accounting suite. You want the PDFs in Gmail or Outlook to become a list: supplier, number, total, due date. That is a single Clariana task.
The search is specific because the pain is specific
People do not type tool for organizing email invoices when they want a full finance platform. They mean: invoices arrive as PDFs, photos and forwards; someone copies totals by hand; duplicates sneak in; the bookkeeper asks for a list.
Clariana is built for that inbox job. You say what to look for, you pick the mailbox, you pick a table (or a file, or Drive). It reads the documents, copies the fields, and drops repeats.
A concrete example
From “invoices in email” to a list you can pay from
This is the whole product flow — the same screen where you type a sentence and choose a source and a destination.
What you type into Clariana
Find supplier invoices in my email, including PDF attachments. For each one note the supplier, invoice number, date, total, VAT and due date. Skip promotions. Keep a running list and do not add the same invoice twice.
Source and destination you choose
Where it comes from
Outlook
Work mailbox
Why this one: That is where supplier PDFs arrive. If you use Gmail, see the note below.
Also works with
- IMAP (Gmail and others)
- Email forwarded to Clariana
- File Upload
- Google Drive
Where the result goes
Table
An online list in Clariana
Why this one: Fastest way to see what you owe. Switch to File Download or Google Drive if you need Excel.
Or choose
- File Download (Excel or CSV)
- Google Drive
- Send Email
When it runs: Every weekday morning
The plan Clariana would show you
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1
Fetch mail from the account you connected
Including attachments. Obvious junk is ignored.
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2
Open anything that looks like an invoice
PDFs, photos, and totals written in the message itself.
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3
Copy supplier, number, dates and amounts
The columns a bookkeeper actually uses.
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Remove duplicates
The same invoice in the body and as a PDF becomes one row.
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5
Add rows to your table
Ask for Excel and choose File Download or Google Drive if the destination should be a spreadsheet file.
What you get back
Example organised invoice list
| Supplier | Invoice | Date | Total | Due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acme Supplies Ltd | INV-4821 | 15 Jul | £1,240.00 | 14 Aug |
| OfficeMax Pro | INV-4822 | 16 Jul | £89.99 | 30 Jul |
| FreshProduce Co | INV-4823 | 18 Jul | £450.00 | 1 Aug |
Clariana does not log into Xero, QuickBooks or your bank, and it does not pay anyone. It organises invoice email.
How to run this in Clariana
One source, one destination, then a plan you can read before anything runs.
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Step 1
Describe the task
Type it the way you would brief a careful helper.
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Step 2
Pick where it comes from
Outlook, IMAP, forwarded email, a file upload, Google Drive or OneDrive.
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Step 3
Pick where the result goes
A table, an email, a download, Drive, OneDrive, or a calendar.
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Step 4
Read the plan, then save
Edit anything that looks wrong. Add a schedule if you asked for one.
Organizing email invoices — the usual follow-ups
Is this an invoice OCR tool?
It reads invoice PDFs and photos and copies out the fields you asked for. You do not configure OCR settings. You describe the list you want.
Can I send the list to Google Sheets?
Not as a live Sheets tab. You can download Excel or CSV, or store that file in Google Drive. The in-app table is the living list.
What about invoices that are only photos on my phone?
Create the same task with File Upload as the source, or run a second task for photos.
Related guides
Describe the task once. Clariana handles it every time after that.