Built for today’s higher education finance teams
Higher education is complex. If your AP process falls behind, it’s more than just an operational issue. It can affect budget management, department performance, student services, and your institution’s ability to support academic excellence.
TranscendAP is an AP automation solution made for the pace, governance needs, and decentralized structure of colleges and universities.
AP Automation + Ellucian For Higher Education
Built for today’s higher education finance teams
Higher education is complex. If your AP process falls behind, it’s more than just an operational issue. It can affect budget management, department performance, student services, and your institution’s ability to support academic excellence.
TranscendAP is an AP automation solution made for the pace, governance needs, and decentralized structure of colleges and universities.
Do More With Your Ellucian Investment
Your Ellucian ERP is the foundation of your institution. AP automation can turn it into a driver of efficiency.
Most institutions use powerful systems like Ellucian Banner, or Colleague to manage finances. However, AP often turns into a manual maze of data entry, clumsy exception handling, and decentralized workflows and approval processes across departments and campuses.
TranscendAP integrates seamlessly with Ellucian, transforming AP into a modern, streamlined process for your institution.
We help by:
- Eliminating manual entry and reconciliation, ensuring every invoice updates to Ellucian Banner or Colleague accurately and in real time.
- Automating routing and approvals across departments, campuses, and cost centers so nothing gets stuck on someone’s desk.
- Delivering real-time visibility into commitments and liabilities, supporting better forecasting and fiscal discipline.
- Strengthening audit readiness and financial controls, reducing compliance risk across grants, research, and general operations.
- Accelerating month-end and year-end close, removing AP bottlenecks while improving reporting accuracy.
Do more with your Ellucian investment
Your Ellucian ERP is the foundation of your institution. AP automation can turn it into a driver of efficiency.
Most institutions use powerful systems like Ellucian Banner, or Colleague to manage finances. However, AP often turns into a manual maze of data entry, clumsy exception handling, and decentralized workflows and approval processes across departments and campuses.
TranscendAP integrates seamlessly with Ellucian, transforming AP into a modern, streamlined process for your institution.
We help by:
- Eliminating manual entry and reconciliation, ensuring every invoice updates to Ellucian Banner or Colleague accurately and in real time.
- Automating routing and approvals across departments, campuses, and cost centers so nothing gets stuck on someone’s desk.
- Delivering real-time visibility into commitments and liabilities, supporting better forecasting and fiscal discipline.
- Strengthening audit readiness and financial controls, reducing compliance risk across grants, research, and general operations.
- Accelerating month-end and year-end close, removing AP bottlenecks while improving reporting accuracy.
Higher education benefits
Unify Decentralized Processes
You no longer need to chase down invoices across schools, departments, grant programs, or research centers. You can standardize and streamline AP across your campus.
Close Faster & Improve Audit Preparedness
With invoices flowing into your Ellucian ERP in real time, reconciliation is easier and both internal and external audits are much less stressful.
Gain Visibility Across Departments, Funds & Projects
Dashboards show invoice aging, budget impact, grant use, vendor activity, and exceptions, so finance leaders can stay proactive and compliant.
Extend The Value Of Your Ellucian Investment
Your ERP holds the data, and TranscendAP brings it to life for AP. You can use your existing workflows, FOAPALs, fund structures, and data hierarchy without changing what already works.
Scale Workload Without Adding Staff
Whether you support a single campus or a network of colleges, TranscendAP helps you handle more work, manage busy periods, and maintain consistent operations without adding staff.
Unify Decentralized Processes
You no longer need to chase down invoices across schools, departments, grant programs, or research centers. You can standardize and streamline AP across your campus.
Close Faster & Improve Audit Preparedness
With invoices flowing into your Ellucian ERP in real time, reconciliation is easier and both internal and external audits are much less stressful.
Gain Visibility Across Departments, Funds & Projects
Dashboards show invoice aging, budget impact, grant use, vendor activity, and exceptions, so finance leaders can stay proactive and compliant.
Extend The Value Of Your Ellucian Investment
Your ERP holds the data, and TranscendAP brings it to life for AP. You can use your existing workflows, FOAPALs, fund structures, and data hierarchy without changing what already works.
Scale Workload Without Adding Staff
Whether you support a single campus or a network of colleges, TranscendAP helps you handle more work, manage busy periods, and maintain consistent operations without adding staff.
Why TranscendAP stands out in higher education AP automation
Most AP automation platforms are made for commercial businesses. We designed ours for higher education’s structure, controls, and compliance needs, with integration as a core feature, not an afterthought.
True Ellucian Ethos API integration
We sync directly with Ellucian Banner and Colleague to ensure accurate FOAPAL coding, encumbrances, vendor data, and workflows.
Configurable for complex institutional workflows
Support for PO, non-PO, grant-funded purchases, student org spend, and more postings move instantly, reducing errors and delays.
Real-time, bi-directional data exchange
Invoices, approvals, and postings move instantly, reducing errors and delays.
Built for governance and scale
We handle multi-campus structures, layered approvals, diverse funding sources, and high transaction volumes.
Simplicity for staff and faculty
A powerful system for finance teams that remains intuitive for departmental users and occasional approvers.
See what AP automation can do for higher education
When AP runs smoothly, you have clear visibility and your ERP works better. Your finance office becomes a strategic partner in academic and operational success, not just a processing center buried in busywork.
