App Aware is a free editorial feature of Insightful Accountant offered to the App Developer community. These features not only promote a developer's app(s) but help make our readers aware of new FinTech designed for the small-to-medium business market. Today's App Aware is about Forwardly, an app which can manage both A/P and A/R.
Forwardly is a modern business payments platform that helps businesses and finance teams manage accounts payable and receivable in one place. Instead of juggling emails, spreadsheets, and bank portals, Forwardly centralizes bills, invoices, approvals, and payments into a single system designed to reduce manual work and improve visibility. Accounts Payable, or Accounts Receivable, Forwardly manages them both.
Bills and invoices can be uploaded or emailed directly into Forwardly, where a business-specific AI-powered inbox reads the documents, extracts key details, and matches them to the correct vendors or customers. From there, payments route through configurable approval workflows, so the right people review and approve each transaction without back-and-forth or delays. Everything stays in sync with leading accounting platforms, keeping records accurate and reconciliation simple.
Once approved, payments can be sent instantly, same day, next day, or by standard bank transfer, or paid by card, giving businesses control over timing and cash flow. Forwardly also supports automated payments, secure vendor onboarding, and audit-ready tracking, helping growing teams scale their financial operations with confidence.
Forwardly’s AI Working For You
The Forwardly AI-native financial platform has engineered to modernize how small and medium-sized businesses manage their money. By embedding intelligence into the payment lifecycle, the platform automates bill capture, coding, and approval routing. This system allows finance teams to move away from administrative tasks and focus on higher-value growth initiatives and overall run leaner teams with less manual effort and human error.
The Forwardly Business Network (FBN) is Forwardly’s specialized ecosystem designed to solve the issues that plague modern B2B transactions. Unlike traditional payment tools locking users into a specific accounting ecosystem, FBN is built on a unique technology that bridges the gap between different accounting and ERP platforms, such as QuickBooks Online, Xero, and other leading software, allowing a sender and a receiver to stay perfectly in lockstep even if they use entirely different software. We will look more closely at Forwardly’s integration with QBO and Xero later in this App Aware article.
By prioritizing this connected network, Forwardly functions as a universal translator for financial operations. It allows growing companies to scale their vendor and customer relationships without worrying about software compatibility or administrative overhead. With a transparent, pay-as-you-go pricing model that makes it universally accessible to businesses and supports faster payment options, this award-winning platform is ready to serve US small and mid-sized businesses.
Key Benefits of Forwardly
Get paid up to three times faster with automated invoice payments and faster payment options, including instant, same-day, and next-day.
Flexible payment options include instant, same-day, next-day, and standard ACH bank payments and pay by card.
Forwardly Works with QuickBooks and Xero
Most of our readers are using QuickBooks Online or Xero for their accounting applications. You will be glad to know that Forwardly offers their 4-way synchronization with either QBO or Xero.
QuickBooks
Forwardly integrates with all U.S. versions of QuickBooks Online including Essentials, Plus, Advanced and Accountant. Forwardly can be found within the QuickBooks Online U.S. App store.
Forwardly connects directly to QuickBooks Online using a four-way sync that keeps vendors, bills, invoices, and payments aligned between both systems. Bills can be uploaded or emailed into Forwardly, where AI reads the document, captures key details, and creates the bill automatically. When a bill is approved and paid in Forwardly, the status and payment details are synchronized back to QuickBooks Online, keeping the books accurate without duplicate entry or cleanup.
Xero
Forwardly also integrates with Xero Early, Growing and Established cloud accounting. Insightful Accountant could not find a listing for Forwardly within the U.S. Xero App Store.
Forwardly reports that they can connect directly to Xero using their four-way sync that keeps vendors, bills, invoices, and payments aligned between both systems. Once connected, Bills can be uploaded or emailed into Forwardly, where AI reads the document, captures key details, and creates the bill automatically. When a bill is approved and paid in Forwardly, the status and payment details are synchronized to Xero, keeping the books accurate without duplicate entry or cleanup.
App Comparison and Contrast
Insightful Accountant does not attempt to make any direct comparisons between similar apps within our App Aware features*. However, if you were to look for similar apps with which to compare or contrast Forwardly, you would consider Bill.com, Melio or QuickBooks Payments/Bill Pay. You can routinely find product comparisons, provided by the competing product, by searching the Internet.
Finding Out More About Forwardly
For more information head over to the Forwardly website. Be sure to check out the 30-second tour of the product.
As an Accountant, Bookkeeper, Consultant, QuickBooks ProAdvisor or Xero Advisor you can participate in the Forwardly Partner Program either as a Forwardly Partner or a Forwardly ‘Certified’ Partner. Forwardly offers Partners certification training session(s) to prepare for the certification exam to become a ‘Certified Partner.’ Certified Partners earn a public badge and credential link which can be added to LinkedIn profiles, websites, or eSignatures. Forwardly, Certified’ Partners earn extra cash rewards, see the partner website for more details.
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Forwardly has a mailing address of 2093 Philadelphia Pike, #1018, Claymont, Delaware 19703, and a toll-free number of 877-551-2220 in the United States. Forwardly operates under its parent company ForwardAI which is a privately held corporation.
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