Case Study: RealWear achieves 50% faster financial close and reduced AP workload with Tipalti

Tipalti Cuts RealWear’s Close Time by 50%

RealWear, a Vancouver, WA–based maker of hands‑free industrial wearable computers, needed its finance team to keep pace with rapid product and customer growth. With one staff accountant handling 90% of accounts payable manually—making payments, then recording them in NetSuite—and facing slow vendor onboarding and compliance challenges, the company sought an automated solution to shorten close times and centralize audit tracking.

By implementing Tipalti’s AP automation with a robust NetSuite integration and automated two‑ and three‑way PO matching, RealWear cut its financial close time by seven days (about 50%), eliminated roughly three days of AP workload per month, and condensed weekly payment tasks to just a few hours per month. The platform improved approval visibility, reduced duplicate‑payment risk, enabled twice‑monthly payments, and delivered faster, more accurate financials for the CFO.

RealWear

Cherith Aasan

Staff Accountant