Sanso + Dougs: Connected Online Accounting

Dougs Handles Your Online Accounting. But Day-to-Day Finance Operations Are Still on You

For a lot of freelancers, consultants, tradespeople, agencies, and small e-commerce companies in France, Dougs has genuinely changed the game. An online accountant you can actually afford, a clean app, bank sync that categorizes your transactions on its own, invoicing, expense reports, pre-filled tax filings, and an accountant who prepares your year-end accounts once a year. On the accounting and regulatory side, it's solid. If you're with Dougs, you made a good choice.

The catch is that between two closes, there's the entire financial life of the business to keep running. And there, the app waits to be fed. Someone still has to go retrieve the supplier invoices scattered across inboxes and portals, file them in the right place, weed out duplicates, create client invoices at the right moment, remind the clients who drag their feet on paying, and step in the moment a client disputes. Neither the tool nor your accountant does that work for you. That's exactly the gap Sanso's Dougs integration fills.

I'm Amalia Bercot, co-founder and CEO of Sanso, an AI-powered finance management service. The AI is the engine that does the heavy lifting: it collects your invoices, reads them, understands them, creates and sends your client invoices, chases your unpaid invoices, and reconciles your bank. Our role is to keep all of that running every day and to deliver clean, complete data to Dougs, so you have nothing left to key in.

What Sanso Adds to Dougs

Sanso doesn't replace Dougs, and it's not yet another piece of software to learn. Dougs stays your online accountant: keeping the books, year-end accounts, and tax filings. That's its job, and it does it well. Sanso is the service that takes care of the finance operations upstream, the ones accounting assumes are already done.

The split of roles fits in one sentence. Dougs brings the accounting framework, the software, and the guidance of an accountant; Sanso does the operational work that feeds that framework. Standard automation swallows any attachment as if it were an invoice, without even reading it. Sanso's AI actually understands every document before doing anything with it. And where a tool fires off an automated reminder then stops cold, Sanso runs collections end to end, disputes included.

Concretely, Sanso plugs into the tools you already have at hand: your inboxes, your supplier portals, your bank, Google Workspace. The AI collects the documents there, processes them, then delivers clean records and structured data wherever you need them, Dougs included. Not one more tool to keep an eye on: your accountant finds supporting documents in Dougs that are readable, categorized, and reconciled, ready to be processed.

How Sanso and Dougs Work Together

Automatic Supplier Invoice Capture

Your supplier invoices show up from all over: by email, on portals (OpenAI, Amazon, energy providers, SaaS tools), sometimes even over WhatsApp. Sanso's AI goes and fetches them across all of those channels. It plugs into your inbox, reads every message and every attachment, tells a real invoice from a quote or a greeting card, weeds out duplicates, then preps the validated invoices for Dougs. And when a portal doesn't offer email delivery, an AI agent logs in, navigates to the billing section, and downloads the right documents for the right period. You never make the rounds of the portals again.

Reading and Categorization Without Data Entry

Once the invoice is retrieved, the AI reads it and extracts the essentials: amount, VAT, supplier, date, purchase order number, line items. Then it categorizes it from context, not fixed rules. It sees that an invoice covers several projects and splits the amounts at the right percentages, understands that two different labels point to the same thing, and applies your cost-allocation logic. The bank sync in Dougs already categorizes your basic transactions; Sanso takes over on everything that calls for context and a bit of judgment, for cost accounting that actually holds up.

Client Invoice Creation and Sending

In small businesses, around 5% of invoices simply never get issued: the work was done, but nobody thought to bill for it. Sanso is plugged into your tools (CRM, project management, email) and knows when a project has wrapped and needs to be invoiced. The AI prepares the invoice, checks it against the quote to make sure nothing has been left out, and sends it. If you prefer, you approve it right before it goes out. Issued invoices and their supporting documents flow back cleanly, ready for your Dougs accounting.

End-to-End Unpaid Invoice Collection

An automated reminder knows how to send an email. What it can't do is react when the client replies "that's not the right amount" or "you billed the wrong entity." Sanso can. Collections are personalized and multichannel: email, SMS, phone. When a client disputes, the AI goes back and checks the quote in your CRM; if the wrong entity was billed, it reissues the invoice and follows the payment through to collection. Every case goes all the way to the end, not just a token reminder. Work that neither the app nor your accountant takes on.

Bank Reconciliation and Clean Data for Your Year-End Accounts

For every movement on your account, Sanso's AI finds the matching purchase or sales invoice and updates its status in real time. It even handles the cases automatic reconciliation leaves behind: currency differences, transaction labels that don't match the invoice wording, gaps of a few days, or the bulk marketplace transfers that bundle hundreds of orders and commissions. The result: you know at any moment who has paid and what's still owed, and at close, your Dougs accountant receives accounts that are already reconciled and documented. Year-end accounts get prepared on a clean base, without chasing a missing document.

Who This Dougs Integration Is For

• Freelancers and growing small businesses that started with Dougs and watch finance admin overflow as business picks up.
• Consultants, agencies, and independent professionals who want to keep their online accountant but be done with chasing supplier invoices and unpaid invoices.
• Tradespeople and small construction businesses that invoice in stages and struggle to track profitability job by job.
• Companies hesitant to hire a finance person: the volume doesn't justify a full-time role, but the admin piles up anyway.
• Small teams where the same person sells the project, then has to chase the client for payment, at the risk of damaging the business relationship.

What Changes for You

• Before: Every week, you make the rounds of supplier portals to retrieve invoices. After: The AI collects them on its own and preps them for Dougs.
• Before: You key in and file every supporting document by hand. After: The AI reads, understands, and categorizes, without a single manual entry.
• Before: Client invoices fall through the cracks. After: The AI spots work that's ready to bill and issues invoices at the right time.
• Before: Payment reminders stall the moment a client disputes. After: Sanso takes over the dispute through to payment.
• Before: Your accountant chases you for documents at year-end. After: They receive accounts that are already reconciled and documented.

Connect Dougs to Sanso

You keep Dougs, your accountant, and your habits. Sanso simply adds the engine that does all the upstream work: the AI captures your invoices, categorizes them, issues your client invoices, chases your unpaid invoices, and reconciles your bank, then delivers clean, complete data to Dougs, without a single manual entry on your side. Onboarding takes a few days and disrupts nothing.

Book a call to see concretely how Sanso's Dougs integration can run your day-to-day finance operations and keep your accounts ready for close, continuously, without you having to think about it.