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Get paid faster — without hiring.

Pipworth matches incoming payments to your invoices in minutes, not hours — so your finance team stops doing detective work and your cash position stops lagging reality.

Works with Sage. Live in two weeks. No IT project.

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Explain this match

Awaiting your approval  ·  Open Banking · 24 May 2026  ·  Read-only ledger access
Incoming payment · BACS
£12,480.00
from Alpha Investments Ltd · ref "INV-1041, 1042" · cleared 09:14 BST
98%
Confidence
Above your 90% threshold
Three open invoices considered
Alpha Investments Ltd · sorted by likelihood
2 matched
INV-1041
Q2 advisory retainer · Alpha Investments Ltd
03 May 2026
£8,200.00
INV-1042
Compliance review · Alpha Investments Ltd
10 May 2026
£4,280.00
INV-1058
Travel disbursement · Alpha Investments Ltd
21 May 2026
£1,940.00
Matched total
£12,480.00
Why these two
Evidence Pipworth weighed
Remittance reference reads "INV-1041, 1042" — exact reference match on both invoices.
Amount £12,480.00 equals the sum of INV-1041 (£8,200) + INV-1042 (£4,280) to the penny.
Customer Alpha Investments Ltd typically settles invoices in batches of 2 (last 6 payments).
INV-1058 considered — not in remittance reference; would leave £1,940 unallocated.
Rule applied: Auto-suggest above 90% · Hybrid mode
Read-only to ledger
FCA-regulated Open Banking
Audit trail · 4 decisions logged

Pipworth · Explain-this-match screen · in-development product UI

THE PROBLEM

Cash arrives. The work begins.

Payments land in your bank account with bad references — or no reference at all. One transfer covers five invoices. A customer short-pays without explanation. Somebody on the finance team works through them line by line, matching incoming cash to open invoices, posting allocations, chasing what won't add up.

The numbers behind it are well-rehearsed: UK businesses are owed an estimated £26 billion in late payments at any time, and chasing it eats roughly 86 hours per business a year. The cost is not just the hours — it is the cash position that always lags reality, the credit control work that doesn't happen because the team is reconciling, and the month-end that drags on because the AR ledger isn't clean.

The pattern. A finance team that knows how to apply cash, doing it manually for the hundredth time this month.
HOW PIPWORTH WORKS

Four steps. No IT project.

01

Connect your bank and Sage.

Secure Open Banking on one side, read-only ledger access where it works on the other. Setup is a single afternoon — not a procurement cycle.

02

Pipworth reads the data.

Incoming payments from your bank feed. Open invoices, customers, and history from your ledger. No data leaves your environment that doesn't need to.

03

It matches them.

Exact references, combined invoices, partial payments, the patterns your customers actually use to settle. Every match comes with its reasoning.

04

You approve — or let it post.

Your choice, per the mode you set. Pipworth handles the routine; your team handles the judgement calls.

THREE MODES

You decide how much to hand over.

Start cautious, scale as you trust it. The mode is your call — and you can change it whenever you want, per customer or across the ledger.

Suggest
Full control

Pipworth proposes every match; your team approves each one. Nothing posts without an explicit nod.

DEFAULT
Hybrid
The sweet spot

Confident matches auto-apply. Anything below your threshold escalates to a human. Most teams settle here.

Auto
Hands-free

Pipworth runs end-to-end. Your team only handles genuine exceptions — the matches Pipworth doesn't trust itself to call.

WHY FINANCE TEAMS TRUST IT

Reasoning, not magic.

Pipworth is built for the FD's first instinct — to ask why. Every match comes with the evidence, the alternatives considered, and the trail an auditor can follow.

  • Every match comes with its reasoning — the invoices considered, the evidence in their favour, the alternatives ruled out.
  • Complete audit trail on every decision — export-ready for your auditors, retained as long as you need.
  • Human-in-the-loop by default — nothing posts to your ledger that your rules haven't allowed.
  • You set the confidence thresholds and escalation rules — not us. Tighten them when you want, loosen them when you trust it.
The screenshot above is the point. Open any Pipworth match and that's what you see: the payment, the invoices, the reasoning, the rule that fired. Reasoning is the product.
WHAT YOU GET

For the FD.

Lower DSO

A cash position that reflects reality, not last week.

Capacity back to the team

Hours freed up for credit control, customer conversations, and analysis.

Cleaner month-end

Cash applied through the period, not in a frantic week-one push.

Fewer keying errors

Misallocations and rework dropping as the work moves out of the spreadsheet.

INTEGRATIONS

Sits alongside what you already run.

LEDGER

Sage 200 and Sage Intacct today. Xero coming next.

BANK

Every major UK bank through regulated Open Banking. Single-afternoon connect.

STACK

No rip-and-replace. Pipworth slots in beside the systems your team uses today.

SECURITY & COMPLIANCE

Built for finance from day one.

  • Open Banking access is FCA-regulated; Pipworth never sees or stores your banking credentials.
  • UK data residency. Your data stays where it should.
  • GDPR-compliant by design.
  • Read-only access to your ledger wherever the workflow allows it. Write-back only on approval, under rules you set.
  • In progress: SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 — labelled as such until certified.
PRICING

Priced to the work Pipworth does.

Simple monthly pricing tied to your payment volume — not per-user seat fees that punish you for involving the team. Book a demo and we'll size it to your ledger in the same call.

Book a demo for a quote →
FAQ

Questions FDs ask first.

Does it work with my version of Sage?

Sage 200 and Sage Intacct are supported today. We'll confirm your specific version on the demo call — the answer is almost always yes.

How long does setup take?

A single afternoon to connect the bank and the ledger. Two weeks to be live in your preferred mode, with rules tuned to your customers' actual payment patterns.

Is my financial data safe?

Open Banking is FCA-regulated and credential-less — Pipworth never sees your bank login. Ledger access is read-only wherever possible, write-back is gated by your rules, and your data stays in UK residency.

What happens when Pipworth isn't sure about a match?

It tells you so. The match goes to your team's inbox with the reasoning and the alternatives. In Hybrid mode this is the whole point: confident work runs automatically, uncertain work stays under human judgement.

Do I lose control of my ledger?

No. You set the confidence thresholds. You choose the mode. You decide what posts and what escalates. Pipworth is built around the rule that the finance team owns the ledger.

What size of business is this for?

Mid-market finance teams running Sage, applying somewhere between hundreds and tens of thousands of payments a month. If you're in that band and your AR ledger is hurting, the demo will be fast.

BOOK A DEMO

See Pipworth run on your own ledger.

No commitment. We'll show you matches on your real data in the first call. Tell us a bit about your finance team and we'll be in touch within one business day.

Pipworth.

Your cash, applied automatically. With the reasoning, the audit trail, and the control your finance team needs.

Book a demo →