What is a document in Dost
Understand what a document is in Dost, what types of information it contains, and how its centralized management reduces the manual work of your accounts payable team.
What is a document in Dost?
In Dost, a document is any file that the platform processes and extracts information from: typically invoices, purchase orders, and delivery notes.
Each document has associated data (supplier, date, amount, taxes, etc.) and a status that indicates where it is in the workflow (pending review, reviewed, etc.).
In the next image, you can see the main menu view of the Documents section.

What is it for?
Working with documents in Dost allows you to:
- Centralize all purchase documentation in a single place.
- Automate data reading, reducing the time spent on manual typing.
- Better control what is reviewed, what is pending, and what has already been sent to the ERP.
(See category: Working with Documents and category: Document Configuration for day-to-day use.)