Accounts payable: AP And Close Software Price Index

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

17 of the 39 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 22 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 3 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 15 figures, never sentences; 183 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per vendor per plan across the close stack - invoice capture and OCR, approval workflow, payment execution, spend cards, ERP AP modules and close/reconciliation software - each price normalised to the unit the vendor charges in (per user, per invoice, per payment, per document) and converted to a cost per 1,000 invoices a month, which is the only figure that compares them; the median and spread per unit, the share of vendors that publish any price at all against quote-only, and repriced-since - the category's own comparison sites quote 'starting at' figures that the vendors' pages contradict

183 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.