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Canals intelligently “reads” each ASN and packing slip, preparing the shipment in the system and attaching the documentation. Your warehouse team can quickly get to receiving, and spend more of their time putting products away.
Accurately process every type of input, no templates or mapping required


Increase productivity by equipping each team with what they need to take action
Get up-and-running in under a week, with minimal IT lift and setup

Hear from the operators, business systems leaders, and executives who use Canals to simplify operational workflows and reduce manual work. Canals customers value fast implementation, responsive support, and intuitive workflow automation their teams want to adopt.

Chris Galewski
IT Admin - Business Systems
What you're making happen with job management has been impossible for many other companies. And you make it look easy.

Valerie Hurt
Buyer
When I started this program the Senior Management Team requested one thing. We want this to be as effortless as possible.
The result was that within 10 weeks of live use we had run thousands of documents through purchasing and receiving each month, most going straight into Eclipse without anyone on our team touching them. It is automated so we are only looking at the things that NEED to be looked at. When we showed leadership how simple the program was, fully adapted to our company needs, they were blown away. It was better than they knew. The engagement on our team was never a fight, even with various tech abilities, it is easy to use and truly makes the job easier and faster. It just makes sense.
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Cameron Reel
Sales & CTO
What I love about Canals is, when you guys turn PO-to-receipt tracking on, it just works. Even order entry, it was maybe a week maybe before it was running. It's as advertised, and nothing is like that anymore.


Dominic Desmond
Chief Operations Officer
The product and team have delivered on everything they've said, and it just keeps getting better. Whenever we've requested any kind of customization, they've listened carefully to our needs and implemented solutions in days. You guys make stuff happen.


Isaac Regenstreif
Chief Operations Officer / Owner
The longer they're in it, the more they love it. If we ever told the team we were taking Canals away, I think we'd have mutiny on our hands. It has very quickly become a need-to-have tool in their tool belt—and not a lot of technology has that kind of impact.


John Heinzel
Manager, Business Systems
We're used to software vendors over-promising and under-delivering. With Canals, it worked much better than expected. The few issues we had were addressed immediately. Adoption by our users has also amazed us. We hope you continue to amaze us with your dedication to being the most responsive vendor we’ve ever worked with.


Chris Galewski
IT Admin - Business Systems
What you're making happen with job management has been impossible for many other companies. And you make it look easy.

Valerie Hurt
Buyer
When I started this program the Senior Management Team requested one thing. We want this to be as effortless as possible.
The result was that within 10 weeks of live use we had run thousands of documents through purchasing and receiving each month, most going straight into Eclipse without anyone on our team touching them. It is automated so we are only looking at the things that NEED to be looked at. When we showed leadership how simple the program was, fully adapted to our company needs, they were blown away. It was better than they knew. The engagement on our team was never a fight, even with various tech abilities, it is easy to use and truly makes the job easier and faster. It just makes sense.
.webp)

Cameron Reel
Sales & CTO
What I love about Canals is, when you guys turn PO-to-receipt tracking on, it just works. Even order entry, it was maybe a week maybe before it was running. It's as advertised, and nothing is like that anymore.


Dominic Desmond
Chief Operations Officer
The product and team have delivered on everything they've said, and it just keeps getting better. Whenever we've requested any kind of customization, they've listened carefully to our needs and implemented solutions in days. You guys make stuff happen.


Isaac Regenstreif
Chief Operations Officer / Owner
The longer they're in it, the more they love it. If we ever told the team we were taking Canals away, I think we'd have mutiny on our hands. It has very quickly become a need-to-have tool in their tool belt—and not a lot of technology has that kind of impact.


John Heinzel
Manager, Business Systems
We're used to software vendors over-promising and under-delivering. With Canals, it worked much better than expected. The few issues we had were addressed immediately. Adoption by our users has also amazed us. We hope you continue to amaze us with your dedication to being the most responsive vendor we’ve ever worked with.


Tina Lemke
Continuous Improvement Leader
You can just see the wheels in their head turning and it's like, "Why didn't I think of that?" They never say no. It's always, "Yeah, we can do that."


Have a question that’s not answered here? Email sales@canals.ai and we’ll get back to you shortly.
Receipt tracking automation is the use of technology to streamline the tedious, manual process of uploading packing slips to your ERP and preparing shipments to be received. It typically involves technology that can read (“parse”) scanned packing slips and ASNs, match them to an open PO, and upload them to your ERP.
Instead of having to individually print, apply, and scan barcode stickers to match packing slips to the right PO, you can simply set a large stack of packing slips to scan while you do other work. More advanced receipt tracking automation tools can go beyond attaching the documentation to actually using it to automaticlly set up your ERP to receive a shipment.
The most direct benefit of receipt tracking automation is time savings. By eliminating manual preparation to get packing slips uploaded to the right PO, documentation becomes much more efficient. Canals customers have experienced up to 50% time savings on receipt tracking.
Because it's so easy and automatic, paperwork typically gets processed sooner for any follow-up that's needed, such as for AP to initiate payment to suppliers or Purchasing to bring up any discrepancies with them. No one has to sift through a stack of actual packing slips or wait around for them to be uploaded, making for smoother business operations.
If you're also using the automation to prepare shipments to be received, it accelerates that process by eliminating the manual steps required. Your receiving team can get to receiving items sooner, and will be able to spend more of their time on actually receiving and getting items on the shelf.
Finally, with packing slips digitized and uploaded to your ERP, there's no need to keep the physical copies. You can say goodbye to those filing cabinets full of packing slips.
Traditional software relies on if-then rules and templates. Every exception, every new format, every way you can refer to the same thing requires a new rule. If you’ve ever used legacy software for workflow automation, you know the pain of having to create a new template and map it for each customer or supplier. Most distributors only bother setting it up for their top partners or a fraction of their total business. In contrast, AI does not require any templates or rules. It interprets information just like a human, and automatically gets smarter based on everyday user input. No setup is required to get started. Instead, your team can simply start using an AI tool, and it will get more and more accurate as it learns from what they do. AI-powered workflow automation independently learns and remembers customer and individual preferences and how exceptions are handled. If something changes, it might not get it right the first time, but just by using it, users teach it what it should do. It automatically adjusts for next time without any further human effort. In short, AI is better at workflow automation because it’s more flexible. Instead of relying on rigid templates and rules, it uses all the information it has learned to approach a task, much the way people do.
We integrate with many of the top ERPs for distributors and manufacturers, including Eclipse, Prophet21, Infor CSD, Infor SX.e, SAP S/4 HANA, and Microsoft Dynamics. Please see our integrations page for a full list of ERPs we currently integrate with.
If we do not yet have an existing integration with your ERP, our expert team can typically build one in a matter of weeks. Just fill out the form to let us know what ERP you use and our Lead Integration Engineer will be in touch to discuss it with you.
For the most common ERPs and accounting systems, technical implementation can be completed in just a few days. It only requires a few hours of your IT person’s time to grant Canals the appropriate access, and then it syncs the data automatically. A day or two later, Canals is ready for your team to use. If we do not yet integrate with your ERP or accounting system, implementation is typically completed in 30 days or less.
Every customer receives a Customer Success Manager, who works with you through onboarding and rollout, as well as post-implementation. They partner with you on the best rollout strategy for your company and conduct all trainings to help onboard your teams. In addition, users can reach out to our Customer Support any time via email or chat.
Yes. Canals has enterprise-grade security that is independently verified through annual SOC 2 Type II audits. In addition, we've completed third-party penetration testing and have regular automated security checks. All data is encrypted at rest using AES-256 and in transit using TLS 1.3.
In addition, we distinguish between data security, which protects your data from unauthorized access, and data privacy, which governs how it’s used and shared. Beyond securing your data, we govern how it's accessed and used to ensure it remains yours.
Please see our Security and Privacy page for additional details.
We offer a tiered, usage-based pricing model. Your cost will depend on your estimated usage and products purchased. After you share some details on your needs, we can provide a pricing proposal, often immediately following our first conversation. Please fill out the form to get started, and we'll be in touch soon!
Yes. We understand that hearing from a peer is one of the best ways to help you make the right decision for your business. After we have an initial meeting to learn more about you and yourneeds, we can put you in touch with one of our happy customers to share their experience. Please fill out the form to get started, and we'll be in touch soon!
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