Comparison · Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets vs Factu for missing invoices.

A spreadsheet can list pending items. It struggles when it also has to send, remind, receive, and validate.

Spreadsheets

Useful for quick inventory and manual reporting, but easy to let drift.

Factu

Every request has supplier, cadence, events, received invoice, and review.

Practical decision

Keep spreadsheets for analysis, not as the operating engine.

Factu

Saturation signs

  • States nobody updates.
  • Duplicate supplier rows.
  • Reminders without history.
  • PDFs saved outside context.

Move follow-up out of the spreadsheet.

Factu keeps the request alive while spreadsheets stay useful for analysis.