BILL charges $49, $65 or $89 per user a month on direct plans, $0.59 per ACH payment and $1.99 per mailed check, and AI bill coding only starts on the $65 Team plan. If you are paying that mainly to stop retyping vendor invoices, InvoiceExtractor reads every line of every bill on a flat plan, $49 a month for 2,500 pages, and exports a file QuickBooks or Xero imports. Drop a bill below to see the lines.
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BILL is a capable approve-and-pay platform. People look elsewhere when the job they hired it for is smaller than the platform.
BILL is an approve-and-pay platform. If your clients pay by their own bank or card and your team only keys vendor invoices into QuickBooks or Xero, most of the subscription covers a payment workflow you do not use.
Direct plans are priced per user per month: Essentials $49, Team $65, Corporate $89. Every extra approver or bookkeeper with a seat adds to the bill, while invoice volume is what actually drives your workload.
BILL lists AI multi-line bill coding from the Team plan at $65 per user a month. The Essentials plan does not include it, so the cheapest tier does not remove the retyping.
An ACH payment is $0.59, a mailed check $1.99, a 1099 e-file $2.99 per form. A firm sending 400 ACH payments a month pays $236 in ACH fees before any seat is counted.
InvoiceExtractor is a focused AI data extraction tool. Upload a bill, get structured data in the format you want, and keep your existing payment process.
Description, quantity, unit price and amount for every line, plus vendor, invoice number, dates, tax and totals, on every bill.
Download Excel or CSV and import it into QuickBooks, Xero, Sage or NetSuite the normal way, or pull JSON through the API.
AI reads scans, phone photos and PDFs from any supplier on the first upload, with no template per vendor.
Drop in a month of vendor bills, including multi-invoice PDFs, and get one consolidated file with each document on its own rows.
See the extraction quality on your own vendor bill in under a minute.
Drag in one vendor invoice or a batch, including scans and photos. No account needed to try.
Vendor, invoice number, dates, every line item, tax and totals, with low-confidence fields flagged for review.
Get Excel, CSV or JSON and import it into your accounting system, or call the API.
The narrower the need, the better the fit.
Turn a stack of client vendor invoices into one import file instead of typing each line.
Pay from your bank or card as you do now and use extraction only for the data entry step.
Replace per-seat approval software with a flat page plan when payments already run elsewhere.
Send documents to an API and get structured JSON into your own app.
InvoiceExtractor is a Bill.com alternative for teams whose real cost is typing vendor invoices, not paying them. BILL (Bill.com) bundles bill capture, approvals and payments, and prices direct plans at $49, $65 or $89 per user a month with per-payment fees on top. InvoiceExtractor does the capture step only: it reads every line item and exports Excel, CSV or JSON for $49 a month flat, and you keep paying through whichever bank or tool you use now.
That makes it a fit for some BILL users and a poor fit for others. The sections below say which. Prices were read from the BILL pricing page in November 2026 and can change.
| Feature | InvoiceExtractor | Bill.com |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | AI invoice data extraction to file or API | AP and AR automation with approvals and payments |
| Subscription | Starter $49 a month for 2,500 pages, Plus $149 for 10,000 | $49, $65 or $89 per user a month, Enterprise by quote |
| AI line-item coding | Included on every extraction | From the Team plan at $65 per user a month |
| Payment fees | None, it does not move money | ACH $0.59, mailed check $1.99, 1099 e-file $2.99 per form |
| Accounting sync | CSV or Excel import into any system | 2-way sync with QuickBooks and Xero, NetSuite and Sage Intacct on Enterprise |
| Approval workflow | No | Yes, with custom roles from Team |
| Accountant program | No | Accountant Console at $49 a month, per-entity pricing by quote |
| Best for | Teams that need the invoice data, not the payment rails | Teams that approve and pay bills in one system |
Our Bill.com pricing for accountants article walks through the console, the plan ladder and the fee schedule with the arithmetic for a practice.
If your clients approve bills and pay them inside one system, BILL does something we do not: it routes approvals, schedules payments, files 1099s and syncs two ways with your ledger. InvoiceExtractor does not move money and has no approval flow. A firm that resells BILL services to clients and earns margin on the per-entity quote has a reason to stay.
Choose InvoiceExtractor when the expensive part of your week is retyping line items from vendor PDFs into QuickBooks or Xero. A flat page plan prices that work by volume instead of by seat, and every line is included. It also suits a team that already pays through its bank or a separate tool and bought BILL mainly for the capture step. Our invoice line item extraction page shows the exact fields returned.
Nothing is migrated, because the two tools do different jobs. Upload the same vendor bills you would send to BILL, download a CSV and import it the way you already import data, for example into QuickBooks as described in scan invoices into QuickBooks. If you still want a hosted approve-and-pay layer, some teams keep a lighter payment tool and use extraction for entry. Sibling tools such as Invoicexlsx (invoicexlsx.com) cover the same extract-to-spreadsheet job if you prefer that route.
For a priced example, see Dext vs Bill.com cost for a 10-client bookkeeping firm. For bookkeeping capture tools rather than payment platforms, see our Dext alternative comparison. For the official BILL plan details, check the BILL pricing page.
It depends on the job. For approving and paying bills in one platform, other AP suites compete with BILL. For capturing invoice data into QuickBooks or Xero without a payment layer, InvoiceExtractor reads every line item and exports Excel, CSV or JSON from $49 a month.
If you only need bill data entry, yes. BILL direct plans run $49 to $89 per user a month plus payment fees. InvoiceExtractor is $49 a month flat for 2,500 pages with no seat or payment fees, but it does not process payments or approvals.
No. It extracts invoice data and exports a file or API response. You keep paying through your bank, card or payment tool. That is why it has no per-payment fees.
Not with a two-way connector. You download a CSV or Excel file and import it into QuickBooks, Xero, Sage or NetSuite. Teams that need live two-way sync should stay with BILL.
BILL lists AI multi-line bill coding from its Team plan at $65 per user a month. The Essentials plan at $49 does not include it. InvoiceExtractor includes line-item extraction on every plan.
BILL lists ACH at $0.59 each and mailed checks at $1.99 each for the payor. Virtual card is free. Voiding a check costs $25 and 1099 e-filing is $2.99 per form, as read in November 2026.
For client data entry, yes. Upload a batch of client bills, get one file and import it. It has no accountant console or per-client billing, so firms that resell BILL services will not find that here.
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