Features

How Legal Spend Runs Through Poppy

Poppy is built to bring structure, discipline, and clarity to legal spend—from the moment an invoice arrives to the moment decisions get made.

Invoices Arrive Clean & Structured

SIMPLE IMPORT

No matter how firms structure and send invoices, Poppy automatically transforms them into standardized, structured data, so your teams can review, allocate, and report without manual cleanup.

  • Email and bulk invoice intake

  • Automated parsing by firm, matter, task, and timekeeper

  • Handles one invoice or thousands with the same workflow

SAVE TIME

Poppy Reviews Before Humans Do

Poppy evaluates invoices against known billing risks and your internal standards before reviewers step in, helping teams focus on meaningful decisions instead of mechanical checks.

  • Automated detection of common billing issues

  • Custom AI review questions defined by your team

  • Clear issue summaries for firm communication

ALLOCATION RULES

Cost Allocation Works Exactly How You Work

Poppy lets legal teams define how spend should be understood—by department, region, entity, project, or any structure that matches the business—while giving Finance clean, usable allocation data automatically.

  • Fully custom allocation dimensions with no predefined categories

  • Multiple simultaneous allocations per invoice

  • Rules that cascade from firm defaults to matter-level overrides

Approvals Match How Your Actual Decisions Are Made

WORKFLOWS

Invoices move through structured approval paths that reflect real organizational workflows, reducing delays and eliminating ad hoc review loops.

  • Multi level, sequential approval tiers

  • Threshold-based routing by invoice amount

  • Firm and matter specific workflow overrides

Budgets and Accruals Stay Visible

VISIBILITY

Legal and Finance share a real-time view of spend across approved, pending, and unbilled work—without spreadsheets or back-and-forth with firms.

  • Budgets at the organization, firm, matter, or category level

  • Automated accrual tracking for unbilled work

  • Law firm portal for self-service accrual submissions with automated reminders

Legal and Finance share a real-time view of spend across approved, pending, and unbilled work—without spreadsheets or back-and-forth with firms.

  • Budgets at the organization, firm, matter, or category level

  • Automated accrual tracking for unbilled work

  • Law firm portal for self-service accrual submissions with automated reminders

Budgets & Accruals Stay Visible

REACT IN REAL-TIME

Spend Becomes Insight, Not Just Records

INSIGHTS INTELLIGENCE

Once spend is structured correctly, Poppy turns invoices into insight that helps teams understand trends, performance, and opportunities for improvement.

  • Reporting across firms, matters, and timekeepers

  • Searchable invoice and line-item analysis

  • Long-term trend analysis across firm relationships

Poppy is built on enterprise infrastructure with the safeguards teams expect when managing sensitive legal and financial data.

  • Hosting on AWS and Heroku with encryption at rest and in transit

  • SOC 2 Type II and GDPR Certified

  • Customer data never used for AI training

  • Single sign-on via Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace and Okta

  • Complete system audit trail

Enterprise-Grade Security & Control

SECURITY FIRST