Forward a bill, an invoice or a bank statement to pagesift. It reads every line and sends the numbers to your accounting system — already in the right shape. Before it does, it adds everything up and checks. If something doesn't add up, it tells you. It never quietly guesses.
Plenty of software will read your invoice and hand you a number with something like “93% confident” next to it. But that's the software marking its own homework. It's telling you how sure it feels — not whether the number is actually right.
So pagesift does what a good bookkeeper does. It adds it up. Do the lines add to the subtotal? Does the subtotal plus GST make the total on the page? If the document's own numbers agree with each other, that's not a feeling. That's proof.
The lines added to the subtotal. The subtotal plus GST hit the total, right down to the cent. The numbers on the page prove themselves — so nobody needs to look at this one. It just goes.
Either the sums didn't work, or the document simply didn't give us enough to check. Both land on your desk, with the problem pointed out — the page on one side, the numbers on the other. Fix it in seconds.
And that's the whole list. There's no “probably fine”. If we couldn't genuinely check a document, we don't pretend we did — we ask you. It's the boring, careful answer, and it's the only one worth having when it's your books.
You get your own email address for documents the day you start. After that there's nothing to learn and nothing to click.
Forward the PDF to your own pagesift address — or drag it onto the page. You can give the address to your suppliers and let the bills arrive on their own. Nothing to install.
We work out whether it's an invoice, a statement or something else, and read every line off the page. Then we do the sums, the way you'd do them with a calculator if you had the time.
Documents that check out arrive in your accounting system, as a spreadsheet, or in a folder — laid out exactly the way that system expects. The rest wait for you, with the problem already pointed out.
The money, the line items and the details like GST numbers all fail differently. Treating them the same is how wrong numbers end up in your books.
The numbers printed on the page have to agree with each other, to the cent. If they don't, you get asked. This is the part everything else rests on.
We check that quantity times price makes the line total — but we only ever mention it. We never hold up your document over it. Here's why.
No amount of adding up can tell you a GST number is wrong. The sums are completely blind to it. So we remember instead.
On a bank statement, the balance after each row has to follow from the row above it — and the opening balance plus everything that happened has to land exactly on the closing balance.
So it isn't just the bottom line that's checked. Every transaction is. When a statement follows all the way through from top to bottom like this, it's about as certain as reading a document ever gets — even a scanned one. And if it doesn't follow, we don't guess. We ask.
Before a line of this was built, real invoices were pulled apart and checked by hand. Each of these taught us something — and each one is a mistake that other software still makes on documents that are perfectly correct.
You'd think you could check GST by working out 15% of the subtotal. You can't. Real invoices round the GST on each line, so the total lands a cent or two off a clean 15% — and it's still exactly right.
On another invoice, the GST on the individual lines drifted from a flat 15% — one line by 6 cents — and yet all 42 of them added up to the printed total exactly.
12 hours at $12.50 should be $150. This invoice said $127.50. It looks like the software misread it — but two independent readings came back with the same numbers.
Nothing was misread. It was simply a fixed-price job, quoted the way garages actually quote them. And the lines still added up to the subtotal correctly.
One supplier's GST number came through two different ways across five invoices — a 6 misread as an 8 on a scan. And here's the uncomfortable part:
The sums were flawless. They just can't see a digit. Adding up alone would have quietly filed a wrong GST number five times over.
Something like acme-7f3a9c2e@in.pagesift.app. Forward bills to it, hand it to your suppliers, or put it on your invoices so the paperwork comes to it directly. It just fills up with documents that are already read, checked and filed. If you look after several businesses, each one gets its own.
And when a bill gets forwarded on to you, we still work out whether it really came from who it says it did — the check most systems lose the moment an email is passed along.
When we do ask you, you see the actual page beside the numbers, with the problem already pointed out. No hunting. Change it, tick it off, done.
Correct something for a supplier and we remember it for their next invoice. But a remembered fix still has to add up before anything goes through on its own — and your word always beats ours.
Got paperwork nobody else has? Set it up yourself — in plain language, picking from your own sample document. No code, and you can try it on a real file before you keep it.
Look after a dozen businesses from one screen — each with its own address, its own documents and its own filing. What one client's paperwork teaches us is never shared with another.
Turn it off and documents still arrive and sit safely, costing nothing, until you say go. You always see what each one cost — per document and per client.
If a document looks doubtful, we can put a second, more careful reader over it and compare the two. Where they disagree is exactly where you should look.
Your accounting system doesn't want “the data”. It wants its own columns, in its own order, with its own names — or it throws the file back at you. So you tell us the shape once, and everything arrives that way.
Need your invoices in one layout and your purchase orders in another? That's fine — set up both. Each one keeps its own columns and its own tidying-up rules, so money, dates and names come out looking the way your system expects. Nothing to clean up afterwards.
Show us an example instead. Send a spreadsheet your system has produced before, along with the document it came from, and we'll work backwards from it and build the layout for you.
If your system is off for a day, it picks up exactly where it left off when it comes back — nothing goes missing. And if a document gets corrected later, the correction comes through too, so you're never left with the old version.
These are your bills, your bank statements and your clients' books. Here's how they're looked after — in plain terms.
Honestly, that's the fastest way to judge this. Pick a document you already know the right answer to, and we'll show you what comes back — and what it flags. No commitment, no setup.
Pricing depends on how many documents you get and what kind. Tell us roughly what you're dealing with and we'll give you a straight answer.