CASS offers strong invoice management tools and works well for companies handling a variety of vendors. Its software consolidates invoices from multiple haulers into a single, centralized dashboard.
However, there are two critical areas of difference between DSQ Discovery & CASS Waste Invoice Management (CASS) that may help you decide how these tools could benefit your business.
- Payments & Invoice Auditing
- DSQ Discovery is not a bank and does not pay haulers or vendors on your behalf. CASS has this capability.
- DSQ Discovery has built & controls its entire supply chain of invoice gathering, extraction, audit and customer invoice generation process. CASS outsources major parts of the invoice supply chain.
- Customer Service & Sensor Data
- DSQ Discovery incorporates data from sensors deployed on compactors and dumpsters, and uses that data to further supplement invoice reports.
- DSQ Discovery includes a complete suite of Customer Service tools to help run your brokerage operations.
- CASS does not include comparable Customer Service tools.
- DSQ, the developer of DSQ Discovery, offers professional service support, including Customer Service functions. It is unclear which professional service support CASS offers.
Could My Team Use Both Systems?
Yes, you could use both!
We’re not picky about how you use DSQ Discovery.
We’re simply laying out that there are differences between systems and ways that you can use them separately and together.
You could have DSQ Discovery run your operations, gather your invoices, audit your invoices and have CASS pay your vendors based on the line-item verification provided by DSQ Discovery.
DSQ Discovery vs CASS
DSQ Discovery was built to serve all brokers and waste management firms—from small operations to enterprise brokerages—to make it easier to maintain and grow your waste brokerage customers. DSQ Discovery was built to run our own waste brokerage, Sequoia Waste Solutions, and we have continued to improve DSQ Discovery since selling Sequoia Waste Solutions to Quest Resource Holdings Group in 2022.
With our prior brokerage experience and breadth of current customers, we understand firsthand the importance of the invoicing issues you face in todays world. DSQ Discovery is built to work brilliantly for the smallest of brokers who value flexibility. As well as for large enterprise level brokers and waste management firms who value reliability, accuracy and zero-down time.
Because DSQ Discovery is able to serve the entire spectrum of the industry, it continues to evolve faster and faster as we learn from all corners of our customer base.
DSQ Discovery’s invoice automation process is the fastest and most accurate process available in the market today.
Top Reasons Why Brokers Should Use DSQ Discovery
- Maintain AR & AP control
- Faster responsiveness with DSQ Discovery Rovers
- Line-item data categorization
- Invoice auto-approval
1. Maintain Control of Your AR & AP Process
If you’re a brokerage that prides itself on high quality customer relationship management, you may hesitate to entrust any part of your AP/AR process to a third party. We understand. Losing that level of control puts your brokerage’s reputation at risk. In the eyes of your customer, any errors reflect on you, not on the third party.
With DSQ Discovery, you retain complete control at every step of the AR & AP process. You select what functions of DSQ Discovery’s software that you’d like to incorporate into your workflow. As you gain comfort with DSQ Discovery’s invoice automations, you will have more time to maintain an even better personal connection with customers.
Control and quality, that’s DSQ Discovery.
2. Faster Responsiveness With DSQ Discovery Rovers
Web retrieval is an essential piece of invoice automation. The faster invoices are retrieved from vendor portals (or emailed-in or scanned-in) and their line-item data extracted & audited automatically, the faster your team moves to address any identified issues and resolve discrepancies.
DSQ Discovery’s Rovers are the fastest in the industry and cared for in-house, retrieving a vendor invoice the same day it is published on a vendor portal.
Comparatively Cass’ approach takes from 1 to 3 days to receive a vendor’s published invoice. Days add up in an AP process and you can’t get them back!
With DSQ Discovery’s Rovers, there is no human element in the process. Invoices are automatically gathered via our API, and not through a manually curated FTP. This means invoices are gathered faster and at all hours of the day.
What does this all mean for your brokerage? DSQ Discovery’s Rovers get you invoices faster and more reliably, and because we maintain our own software, any issues are instantaneously detected and resolved quickly (usually within 24 hours). Don’t get caught waiting!
3. Line-Item Data Categorization
DSQ Discovery is the only waste and recycling industry specific, invoice line-item data extraction software that fully understands the necessary categorizations of waste and recycling data into categories specific to the waste management industry, while maintaining and respecting the relationships embedded in the vendors invoice format.
DSQ Discovery is more than just a string of text ripped from the invoice and called “extraction”, more than just header level data and “amount due”.
DSQ Discovery software removes unnecessary data and positively recognizes and categorizes waste invoice data such as:
- Type of charge (extra charge, min ton, roll-off, fuel/energy, allocatable fee etc.)
- Fees and taxes
This line-item categorization ensures accurate numbers, flags irregularities, prepares for invoice auditing and facilities further automation and verification.
And if you’re asking “does it do roll offs and compactors?” YES! Roll offs, Compactors and all kinds of special waste situations are easily handled by DSQ Discovery.
4. Invoice Auto-Approval
DSQ Discovery offers the industry’s best and most accurate Invoice Auto-Approval process. This takes invoice auditing to new levels of speed and precision that companies using 3rd party AI or LLM software can’t replicate.
The efficiency gains from Invoice Auto-Approval are massive, typically resulting in 75% of your invoices being fully Auto-Approved.
Invoice Auto-Approval allows your AP team to focus their best energy on only the invoices that need their attention. They’ll be happier and so will you.
The DSQ Discovery Experience
Don’t take our word for it. One of our DSQ Discovery customers, a Managing Partner at a Waste Brokerage, said it best:
“DSQ Discovery stood out to us because it was developed by brokers, so I know it is made for the applications we need.”
Ready to stop drowning in invoices? See how DSQ Discovery can help your team process invoices 3x faster. Watch our demo here.
Ready to have a conversation with a DSQ Discovery expert? Set up time here.
A note from the team at DSQ:
Software product comparisons can easily be read as US vs. THEM content.
At DSQ Technology, we don’t see the world function that way too often. We think waste & recycling often require unique solutions, which often means deploying multiple tools to suit your needs.
We hope you find this comparison insightful and accurate. If it’s not accurate, tell us, we will update it.
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