Traild AI accounts payable fraud detection automates real-time fraud alerts, vendor analysis and invoice validation to help you ensure every transaction is legitimate, accurate and secure.
Every invoice processed through Traild undergoes an automatic risk assessment, identifying fraudulent activity, invoice errors and irregular supplier behavior. The system flags potential risks such as unusually high invoice values, modified payment terms, and altered bank details, preventing costly mistakes before payments are released.
Human errors in supplier invoices including incorrect pricing, overbilling or incorrect line items are common. Traild intelligent 2 and 3 way invoice, sub contract, purchase order and receipt matching automatically detects discrepancies so you can ensure invoices are ready for approval.
Fraud attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated. From Business Email Compromise (BEC) to vendor impersonation and fake invoices. Even if you’re familiar with all of your vendors, you need protection in case they’re breached.
Traild uses machine learning to analyse historical transaction data from your ERP or accounting system. Over time, Traild builds a fingerprint of your normal invoice and payment patterns, allowing it to detect deviations that might indicate fraud or data entry errors.
Beyond analysing your internal transactions, Traild also monitors supplier behaviours across a broad network. By comparing supplier activity across multiple businesses, Traild can identify irregularities, such as sudden changes in invoicing behavior, unusual locations invoices are sent from, or discrepancies in payment details. These can be signs of a compromised vendor.
By establishing a baseline of normal invoice and supplier behavior for your business and the supplier, Traild AI-powered accounts payable fraud detection can instantly identify deviations that indicate potential risks. This includes sudden spikes in invoice values, payment detail modifications and unusual invoice submission patterns that could signal fraudulent activity.
Errors and fraudulent invoices cost businesses millions annually. Traild accounts payable fraud detection ensures payments are only made on validated invoices to verified suppliers, preventing unnecessary financial losses. By catching discrepancies early in the AP process, companies can reduce overpayments, prevent unauthorised transactions, and maintain tighter financial control.
Fraudulent invoices can go unnoticed in a manual AP system.
Traild always-on accounts payable fraud prevention controls,
including supplier verifications, proactively identify risks such as:
By flagging suspicious invoices early, Traild helps you stop fraud
before it impacts cash flow and financial integrity.
Verify supplier details, detect fraudulent vendors, and ensure payments are sent to legitimate accounts.
Automate invoice matching against purchase orders, subcontracts, and receipts to reduce errors, prevent overpayments, and improve control.
Traild provides easy-to-use automation that reduces manual workload and improves payment security for growing small and medium businesses. For enterprises, Traild scalable AP automation transforms and protects accounts payable for high-volume, multi-tenant financial operations.
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Yes, Traild automatically detects duplicate invoices by cross-referencing all incoming invoices against historical transactions. If an invoice has already been processed, Traild flags it before payment is made, preventing overpayments and unnecessary administrative work.
Traild flags multiple types of invoice discrepancies, including:
Duplicate invoices
Variances between invoice line-item prices and purchase order values
Suppliers overcharging for products or services (variances on line-item prices compared to purchase order)
Additional line items added to invoices which don’t match corresponding PO
Altered supplier account details.
By applying automated 2 and 3 way PO matching alongside always-on anomaly detection, Traild ensures every invoice is accurate, helping you eliminate costly errors and mispayments.
Traild actively scans invoices for and alerts businesses to:
Changed payment details, which could indicate fraud
Modified payment terms, such as when urgent payment has been requested, suggesting unauthorised adjustments or potential fraud
Invoices from new suppliers, requiring additional verification
Unusually high invoice amounts, which may signal fraud or human error
Duplicate invoice submissions.
With real-time fraud detection and anomaly alerts, Traild helps businesses identify and stop financial threats before they result in financial losses.
Accounts payable fraud occurs when unauthorised or fraudulent transactions are processed within an AP system. A common example is false invoicing, where a fraudulent vendor submits an invoice for services that were never provided. This can be done by external scammers impersonating a legitimate supplier or internal employees creating fake invoices and routing payments to personal accounts. Without accounts payable fraud detection and supplier verification, these fraudulent payments can go unnoticed, leading to financial losses.
AP departments handle high volumes of invoices and financial transactions, making them a prime target for scams and fraud. The risk is heightened as AP departments typically rely on manual invoice processing with a lack of oversight and weak accounts payable fraud prevention controls. Fraud attackers often exploit vulnerabilities such as manual supplier checks and manual approval processes that have weak segregation of duties. Without an automated accounts payable fraud detection system, businesses may struggle to detect fraudulent invoices before payments are made.
One of the most prevalent forms of acquisition and payment fraud is invoice fraud, where fraudulent or duplicate invoices are submitted for payment. This can occur when:
A supplier inflates invoice amounts or charges for unapproved services
An employee submits duplicate invoices for reimbursement
A scammer impersonates a legitimate supplier and changes payment details.
To prevent this, businesses must implement always-on vendor verification, anomaly detection, and automated AP fraud prevention controls to flag irregularities in real-time, before payments are processed.
The most common way accounts payable fraud is detected is through automated fraud detection software and audit controls. Traditionally, fraud was uncovered through manual audits, employee whistleblowing or vendor complaints after the fact, but AI-powered accounts payable fraud detection now identifies risks in real-time. Traild always-on anomaly detection flags suspicious invoices, altered payment details and duplicate transactions, allowing businesses to investigate and stop fraud before payments are processed.
Preventing accounts payable fraud requires strong AP automation, vendor verification, and fraud detection systems. Businesses can significantly reduce fraud risk by:
By integrating AP fraud prevention controls, businesses can block fraudulent transactions before they cause financial damage.
The biggest risks of fraud in accounts payable and payroll include:
Vendor impersonation fraud, where scammers submit fake invoices or change supplier payment details. Often the supplier’s emails have been compromised via phishing and so the impersonation looks very realistic
Duplicate invoice payments
Phantom employees or ghost vendors, where funds are routed to fraudulent accounts
Unauthorised payment approvals, where insiders exploit gaps in approval workflows
Expense reimbursement fraud, where employees submit inflated or duplicate claims.
With AI-powered AP automation and fraud detection, businesses can proactively identify and eliminate these risks of internal and external fraud before they result in financial losses.
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