> ## Documentation Index
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# Bill Pay

> Automate how utility bills flow to your accounts payable team or ERP system.

<Tip>Need help in this area? See [Bill Pay FAQ](/platform/bill-pay/faq).</Tip>

Bill Pay automates the handoff between Nectar and your accounts payable process. Once a bill is collected and processed, Bill Pay evaluates it against your routing rules and delivers it to the right place — whether that's an email inbox, an ERP system like QuickBooks or NetSuite, or a centralized payment workflow managed by Nectar.

Instead of manually downloading bills and forwarding them to AP, you configure the logic once and let every future bill flow automatically.

## How it works

When a new bill is processed in Nectar, Bill Pay takes over:

<Steps>
  <Step title="Validation">
    The bill is checked for data quality issues. If any unresolved issues exist, it pauses until they're addressed.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Review">
    Nectar's operations team reviews and approves the bill for routing. This ensures only verified bills reach your AP systems.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Rule evaluation">
    Your routing rules and GL coding rules are evaluated against the bill. Conditions like utility type, site, total charges, or flagged status determine which actions fire.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Delivery">
    The bill is forwarded to the matched destinations — emailed to your AP team, pushed to your ERP, or both. If no rules match, the bill waits for manual assignment.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Two integration paths

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Delivered (AP-coded)" icon="envelope">
    Bills are forwarded to your AP team via email or pushed directly to an ERP system. The bill pay cycle ends at delivery — your team handles payment from there.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Centralized (Nectar pays)" icon="credit-card">
    Nectar handles payment on your behalf. Bills progress through funding, payment processing, and reconciliation. You receive confirmation once the vendor is paid.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Most companies start with the **Delivered** path — routing bills to their existing AP workflow. The **Centralized** path is available for companies that want Nectar to manage vendor payments directly.

## Module pages

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Rules" icon="list-check" href="/platform/bill-pay/rules">
    Configure routing and GL coding rules that automatically process incoming bills.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Destinations" icon="route" href="/platform/bill-pay/destinations">
    Set up email addresses and ERP integrations where bills are delivered.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Routing history" icon="clock-rotate-left" href="/platform/bill-pay/decisions">
    View how each bill was evaluated against your rules, with a full audit trail.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Funding overview" icon="chart-simple" href="/platform/bill-pay/funding">
    Track the payment lifecycle from review through delivery or payment.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Who is Bill Pay for?

Bill Pay is designed for companies that:

* Manage utility bills across many sites and want to eliminate manual forwarding
* Need bills coded with GL accounts before reaching their ERP
* Want a complete audit trail of which bills went where and why
* Use multiple AP teams or systems for different locations or utility types

## Related pages

* [Data Inventory — Bills](/platform/data-inventory/bills) — browse the bills being routed
* [Data Quality — Issues](/platform/data-quality/issues) — resolve issues that can block bill pay routing
* [Glossary — Bill pay status](/platform/glossary#bill-pay-status) — status definitions