AvidXchange: accounts payable automation software platform

The short answer

Buy AvidXchange if your accounting system is Yardi, Rent Manager, MRI, Blackbaud or MIP Fund Accounting and the generalist AP tools keep telling you their connector is on the roadmap. This is a vendor that sells deliberately into real estate, community association management, construction and nonprofits, and it pays suppliers itself through the AvidPay Network rather than handing a file to your bank.

Skip it if you need to compare costs on a spreadsheet before you book a call, because nothing is published and there is no billing metric to model against. Skip it too if you want purchase orders, invoices and payments as one indivisible product, since AvidXchange sells Purchase Order Automation, Invoice Automation and Payment Automation as separate solutions and each is a line you have to price. And skip it if your suppliers are mostly outside the United States.

Where AvidXchange fits

AvidXchange pricing

AvidXchange publishes no prices, and it goes further than that: on 16 October 2026 there was no pricing page on the site at all. https://www.avidxchange.com/pricing, /pricing/ and /plans each returned HTTP 404, the homepage returned 200, and a second pull with full browser headers found no pricing, plans or cost page anywhere in the site's own page sitemap. Every call to action is Book Your Demo or Request Your Demo. So there is no list price to interrogate, no starting price, and no published billing metric. The useful work is working out what the quote is a function of, because AvidXchange has not told you even that much.

Four things to pin down, and the first one is a question most buyers assume has already been answered.

1. The billing metric itself. AvidXchange publishes nothing about how it counts, so you cannot know whether you are buying per invoice, per payment, per user or a flat platform fee until someone tells you. Get it into the order form in those words, along with the volume the price assumes, the price of the next band, and what a month that runs over costs. A quote with no stated metric is a quote you cannot compare with anything, including next year's renewal of itself.
2. Your product mix, because these are separately sold solutions. Purchase Order Automation, Invoice Automation and Payment Automation each need their own line, and Accounts Payable as a Service is a different offering again. Ask for each priced on its own rather than as a bundle, so you can see what the payments layer costs beyond invoice processing and what adding purchase orders in a year will do to the number.
3. Payment volume and payment mix, which is where the economics actually live. AvidXchange pays suppliers in the AvidPay Network by virtual credit card, AvidPay Direct or mailed check, and it is the money transmitter in that flow. Ask how each of those three methods affects your fee, whether any card rebate flows back to you, and what proportion of your particular suppliers are already enrolled, because supplier enablement is the work that turns a projection into a saving.
4. Your accounting system and your industry. The connector list runs from NetSuite and QuickBooks through to Yardi, Rent Manager, MRI, Blackbaud and MIP Fund Accounting, and AvidXchange packages by vertical. Ask whether your integration carries its own fee and its own implementation, whether an industry package applies to you, and who maintains the connector when your ERP upgrades.

What could be a separate line

• No add-on prices are published, because no prices are published. Treat purchase order automation, invoice automation and payment automation as three potential lines rather than one product.
• Accounts Payable as a Service is described as a fully managed AP infrastructure for ERP and accounting platforms, which implies a services component. If that is what you are buying, ask what is software and what is managed service.
• Supplier-side capability, the Supplier Hub, Straight Through Processing and Invoice Status Inquiry, carries no published fee on either side. Ask explicitly whether your suppliers are charged anything to receive payments, because that question comes back to you as a supplier relations problem rather than a line on your invoice.

Implementation and commercial terms

There is no pricing page, so the rows below record what the rest of the site confirms as of 16 October 2026 and, deliberately, what it does not.

Published price

None. No pricing page exists on avidxchange.com

Pricing metric

Not published. Ask whether it is per invoice, per payment, per user or a platform fee

Solutions sold separately

Purchase Order Automation, Invoice Automation, Payment Automation, and Accounts Payable as a Service

Payment methods

Virtual credit card, AvidPay Direct or mailed check through the AvidPay Network

Regulatory status

Licensed money transmitter for business payments in the United States, including by the New York State Department of Financial Services

Implementation fee

None published; ask for setup cost and scope in writing

Free trial

None listed. Every call to action is a demo request

Headquarters

Charlotte, North Carolina

Budget AvidXchange as two numbers, not one, and insist the quote shows them separately: the software subscription for the modules you are buying, and the cost of moving money, including any rebate. Then do the thing the missing pricing page makes necessary, which is to run a competitive process, because a quote with no published anchor is impossible to sanity-check on its own. Put BILL's per-user rates and Tipalti's starting platform fee next to it and make AvidXchange justify the difference out loud, and ask for multi-year discount and exit terms in the same conversation, since both are easier to win before you are a reference customer in a vertical they sell hard into.

Source: the AvidXchange site, which publishes no pricing page, checked 16 October 2026. Confirm current prices with the vendor before you budget.

What AvidXchange gives up

How AvidXchange compares

Pricing transparency is the first cut in this category, because it decides whether your evaluation is modelling or negotiation. BILL publishes full per-user rates and Tipalti a starting platform fee, both checked on 25 September 2026. AvidXchange has no pricing page at all, and Stampli shows two packages behind a quote form. Every price cell below comes from that vendor's own pricing page, and where there is none, the cell says so rather than guessing.

What to test in an AvidXchange demo

There is no free trial, so this is a demo and a scoping exercise. Because there is no published price either, the demo has two jobs: prove the workflow on your real documents and extract the commercial terms. Treat the second as the harder one.

1. Bring your own ERP and your three worst invoices. A utility bill split across properties, a construction invoice with a lien waiver attached and a variance against a purchase order will tell you more than a clean demo file. If you run Yardi, Rent Manager, MRI, Blackbaud or MIP Fund Accounting, make them show the connector against your chart of accounts rather than a generic instance.
2. Hand over your supplier list and ask for a network match. The business case rests on how many of your suppliers are already in the AvidPay Network and how many will take a virtual card. Ask for the match rate in writing, plus what AvidXchange does about the suppliers who will only accept a check, and who contacts them.
3. Get the billing metric named in the first or second call. Ask directly whether the quote is built on invoice count, payment count, user count or a flat platform fee, where the tier boundaries sit, and what an overage costs. Nothing on the site answers this, so an unanswered question here is a reason to slow down.
4. Price the modules separately. Ask for Purchase Order Automation, Invoice Automation and Payment Automation as three lines, then ask what adding the ones you skipped would cost in a year. Separately, confirm whether the integration for your accounting system carries its own fee and its own implementation project.
5. Settle the money questions before the software ones feel decided. Get the per-payment cost of virtual card, AvidPay Direct and check, any card rebate stated as a rate rather than a projection, the implementation fee and scope, exit terms, and your data export rights for the invoice archive and the vendor master. AvidXchange is the money transmitter in this flow, so also ask what happens to in-flight payments if you terminate.

Frequently asked questions about AvidXchange