Kill Purchase Order Busywork
- Seth Adam Cohen
- Dec 22, 2025
- 2 min read
Every company handling a high volume of purchase orders eventually runs into the same bottleneck: many of those orders still arrive by email and must be processed manually. Someone opens each email, reads the details, switches to an ERP or finance system, and then types it all in by hand. That means hours spent on repetitive work, more hires just to keep up, and avoidable human errors that ripple through operations. Pendless solves that problem by automating the busywork between incoming orders and your systems of record.
The Cost of Manual Purchase Orders
For many teams, purchase orders still follow a familiar manual flow:
A vendor email lands in someone’s inbox
A team member reads the order details
They switch to the ERP or accounting tool
They manually type in the purchase order
They review and submit it
This process seems simple until scale hits. Every new order adds a couple minutes of routine typing, distraction, and context-switching. As order volume grows, so do errors, staffing needs, and operational friction.
How Pendless Transforms Purchase Order Work
Pendless automates the repetitive portion of this workflow without changing the tools your team already uses. Instead of rewriting systems or retraining staff, Pendless sits between incoming orders and your existing order entry workflows.
Here’s how it works:
Connect the inbox where purchase orders arrive
Forward order emails to Pendless
Pendless reads and interprets the order content
It prepares and enters the order step by step in your ERP or internal tools
Humans supervise and intervene only when needed
No blind automation. No black-box decisions. Pendless performs the mechanical work a person used to do, and lets your team focus on higher-value tasks.
Why This Matters Now
Purchase operations don’t scale well if every new order means more manual work. With automation in place:
You eliminate wasted hours previously spent on typing and copying data
You reduce errors that come from manual entry
You free up staff to focus on relationships, strategic sourcing, and value-added tasks
You keep the familiar flow, just without the tedious bits
This is especially valuable for sales operations and procurement teams that juggle steady streams of POs on top of other responsibilities.
Browser-Based Automation That Works With Your Tools
Pendless is a browser-based automation platform that lives inside Chrome. Instead of requiring integrations or APIs for every system, it interacts directly with whatever web tools you already use. That means you can:
Build automations in plain English
Orchestrate tasks across web apps
Reduce dependency on custom integrations
Empower teams to automate without IT support
This model bridges the gap between traditional robotic process automation and conversational AI, giving you practical automation without the typical setup burden.
Get Started With Smarter Purchase Order Automation
If your team still sends manual purchase orders from inboxes into systems, you’re carrying operational overhead that automation can eliminate. Pendless lets you keep your workflows intact while replacing the repetitive typing with automated actions that execute reliably and transparently.
The end result? Purchase orders get done faster, more accurately, and with less effort from your people. That’s work shifted from busywork to impact.
