How school finance teams are improving visibility, approvals, audit trails and control across AP
It’s rarely the invoice itself that creates the issue. More often, it’s everything around it: who requested the spend, whether the purchase order was raised at the right time, who needs to approve it and whether finance has a clear trail before payment.
Join Alii for From Request to Payment: How school finance teams are improving visibility, approvals, audit trails and control across AP, a practical 45-minute webinar featuring real case studies and workflow examples from Canterbury College and Shire Christian School.
You’ll hear live reflections from Anthony McRae, Director of Finance at Canterbury College and Peter Watters, Business Manager at Shire Christian School. Alii Solutions Managers Mariana Retre and Alison Allan will guide the case study sections and show the workflow examples behind each school story.
You’ll see how schools of different sizes and complexity, using different school information and finance systems, are using AP automation to make purchasing, approvals, audit trails and payment workflows easier to see, manage and trust.
What better AP automation and visibility looks like in practice
How schools are reducing chasing across approvals and payments
How audit trails and delegation support stronger control
What Canterbury and Shire Christian would recommend to other schools considering Alii
School Business Managers
Bursars and finance leaders
CFOs, COOs and Principals
IT leaders and operational decision-makers
What 553 school leaders across AU, NZ, the UK and the US are seeing, and what stronger controls look like in practice
Fraud and security risk in schools is no longer a niche issue for IT teams alone. It is showing up in the day-to-day reality of approvals, supplier changes, invoice processing, governance reporting and recovery readiness.
In this practical Lunch & Learn, Daryll Holland will unpack key findings from Alii’s survey of 553 school leaders across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US, then connect those findings to the operational controls schools can strengthen now.While legal and compliance obligations vary by region, the pressure points are often strikingly similar across school environments, especially around email-based impersonation, supplier changes, payment verification, accountability and visibility.
Where fraud and security risk is landing most often in schools
What leaders see as the biggest threats heading into 2026
Why manual processes and unclear ownership still create exposure
What practical, repeatable controls look like across approvals, vendor changes and payment workflows
How stronger workflow visibility can support governance, accountability and audit readiness
School Business Managers
Bursars and finance leaders
CFOs, COOs and Principals
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Alii is accounts payable and procurement software for schools. It helps teams modernise approvals and accounts payable with clearer visibility, consistent pathways, and stronger traceability.
The typical Accounts Payable function has long been a time-intensive and manual process with many facets and bottlenecks. Leading Education Institutions around the world chose Alii to protect and streamline accounts payable and procurement functions.
Alii seamlessly integrates with your existing School Management and Accounting platforms that you already know and love.
Never lose a supplier invoice or purchase order again. Best in class dashboards, email alerts provide a new level of visibility for your organisation.
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Digitise the procure to pay process, keeping desks clear from paper pileups and allowing you to digitally view, approve and report on your purchase orders and invoices.
Alii manages complex approvals and delegation of authority for purchases and payments, as well as reducing errors that result from manual data entry.
Save your finance and admin staff time by automating manual tasks via workflows and automatic invoice scanning technology.
All invoices are passed through Alii’s proprietary fraud detection engine which has the most advanced technology in the industry.
