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Autessa Payments vs Melio
Melio and Autessa Payments sit on different sides of the same money. Melio centers on paying bills, with AI bill capture and approval workflows, and offers a get-paid side. Autessa Payments centers on getting paid: invoices, subscriptions, sales tax and payouts, with agents that can call and email to chase an invoice.
Side by side
Autessa Payments and Melio, compared
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Where Autessa wins
Why teams choose Autessa Payments over Melio
- Built around getting paid, down to agents that can call your customer and send emails to chase an invoice.
- Subscription billing and paywalls for the apps you build on Autessa.
- Sales tax calculated on every invoice and totaled by place.
- Melio lets you set approval flows and roles. Autobot changes the app itself, such as a sign-off before large refunds, code and all.
- Through the Autessa MCP, Claude can create an invoice, list customers and check a payout from a chat.
The Autessa way
From invoice to bank, on one page
Works out of the box, and you shape templates, plans, tax and branding to how your business bills.
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About Melio
Melio positions itself around accounts payable: paying vendors by card or bank transfer, international payments, approval workflows, AI bill capture, the Agent Mel assistant and two-way sync with QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite, with invoices and payment links as well. Xero has announced its acquisition of Melio.
FAQ
Autessa Payments vs Melio: questions
Can I take bank payments from customers?
Yes. Customers can pay invoices from a US bank account; the invoice shows Processing while it clears.
Does Autessa Payments calculate sales tax?
Yes, for the places you register, from the customer’s address and what you sell, with monthly totals by place.
Can we customize Autessa Payments?
Yes. Set templates, plans, tax and branding yourself, and Autobot can change the app’s code from a plain-language request.
Can AI tools reach Autessa Payments?
Yes. The Autessa MCP gives Claude and other AI tools full headless access to invoices, customers and payouts, and agents never charge a card.
100% customizable, code and all
Make Autessa Payments fully your own.
Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.
Start free and make it yours