Supplier orders that invoice themselves back.

Every other invoicing tool is built one direction: you → customer. Suppliers go in a spreadsheet, on email, or in a separate AP product you also pay for.

We do both directions natively. You add a supplier. You send them an order from inside Guliel. They issue an invoice back against that order. The invoice lands in your system, links to the order, and reconciles automatically. Nobody else does bidirectional supplier flow. That isn't marketing language; the comparison matrix is on every competitor page.

How it works — the round trip

A supplier in Guliel is an organization. It might be a registered Guliel org (another company already on the platform) or an unregistered one (an email address you typed in). The round trip works either way.

1. You issue an order

From the supplier's detail page, create an order. Pick line items from your logistics catalog or type custom lines. Set quantities, prices, currency. Save. The supplier gets notified — by email if they're unregistered, in-app if they're on Guliel.

2. The supplier accepts

If the supplier is on Guliel, the order appears in their dashboard. They see who placed it (you), the lines, the quantities. They confirm and issue an invoice against it from their side — Guliel pre-fills the invoice from the order, so they're approving, not retyping.

If the supplier is on email only, they get a link to a public order view. They can issue their own invoice however they normally do; when it arrives in your inbox the expenses pipeline extracts it, sees the order reference, and links the two.

3. The invoice flows back

The supplier's invoice — issued from their org, against your order — lands in your account. The system knows the order it was for, so it deducts against the order line items, marks the order as invoiced (partial or full), and logs the matching expense. PO and invoice reconcile automatically. No three-way match in Excel.

4. You pay it

Mark it paid in Guliel. The corresponding receipt flows back to the supplier through the same channel. Both sides have a clean audit trail.

PO ↔ invoice matching

Concretely: when a supplier issues an invoice linked to a purchase order, we deduce the invoice's counterparty from that order — we don't store it separately, we compose it. Quantity-received and quantity-ordered are tracked per order line. Over-invoicing flags the variance instead of silently absorbing it. Partial deliveries chain — order, partial invoice A, partial invoice B, final receipt — each linked, each visible from the order detail screen.

If the order also drained stock from your logistics inventory, that movement is in the audit trail. Restocking on a supplier order arrival? An automation can fire on it.

The cross-org flow

This is the part nobody else builds. When both you and your supplier are on Guliel, the bridge is structural: your Supplier record points at their Organization; their Customer record (you, in their dashboard) points back at yours. Two morphisms, two organizations, one round-trip. Your order appears as their order. Their invoice appears as your expense. Both sides see the same state at the same time.

For freelancers, contractors, and small studios that work with each other regularly, this collapses a tangle of email threads, PO PDFs, and reconciliation rituals into one shared object.

When the supplier isn't on Guliel

The features above degrade gracefully. Email-only suppliers get an order PDF and a public link. Their invoice arrives in your inbox the way it always did and the expense pipeline catches it. The match against the order works as long as either (a) the supplier puts the order reference on their invoice, which most accounting tools support, or (b) the totals and dates line up closely enough to suggest the match — Guliel proposes the link, you confirm.

Every supplier you add to Guliel is one invite away from being on Guliel. We don't charge them. The free tier is real.

Pricing

Per organization, including for suppliers. If a supplier creates a Guliel org to accept your invitation, they pay $0 unless they cross the free tier (200 invoices / month). They aren't a "seat" on your subscription — they're their own org. Full table on /pricing.

FAQ

Do suppliers need a Guliel account to receive orders?

No. Unregistered suppliers receive an email with a public order view. They can issue an invoice the way they normally do; the expense pipeline catches it on the way back. The bidirectional flow is tighter when both sides are on Guliel, but it doesn't require it.

What if a supplier already has a Customer record in their dashboard for me?

We detect that. The accept-invitation flow looks for an existing external Customer in the supplier's org that represents your company and reuses it instead of creating a duplicate. The two records merge — same Customer, with the represents link now set. No drift between the old contact card and the new in-system one.

How is partial invoicing handled?

Order line items track quantity-ordered and quantity-invoiced. Partial invoices reduce the open quantity. The order stays open until the open quantity reaches zero. Over-invoicing flags a variance — it doesn't silently accept the over-charge.

Does the invoice the supplier issues comply with their country's rules, not mine?

Yes. The supplier's invoice is issued from their organization, so it uses their country's document standard (XRechnung, Peppol BIS, CFDI, Japan QIS, etc. — see /invoicing). The order is your document and follows your country. Cross-border supplier relationships work without either side compromising compliance.

Can I auto-create supplier orders when stock runs low?

Yes — that's a single automation. When an item in your logistics catalog drops below a threshold, an order is drafted to the supplier you've linked to that item, pre-filled with the restock quantity. You approve and send. Set the approval gate to "auto-send" if you trust it.

Are supplier invoices counted against my invoice quota?

No. Your monthly invoice quota counts invoices your org issues to your customers. Invoices supplied to you by suppliers count against their org's quota, not yours. They land in your account as expenses.

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