Journey Energy Is Moving to IFS: What It Means for Suppliers Who Send Invoices

If you invoice Journey Energy, your submission process is about to change

Journey Energy is migrating from Open Invoice to IFS, the ERP platform used by many oil and gas operators. For the accounting team, it’s a major platform shift. For suppliers, it raises a practical question: how will my invoices get into IFS, and how do I keep getting paid on time?

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Table of Contents


About IFS Invoice Submissions
What is IFS
Why an Invoice System Change Matters
Automating Your Invoice Submissions
IFS Transition Checklist
FAQ
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What’s changing and why it matters

When an operator moves invoice processing from one platform to another, suppliers often have to adjust how they submit invoices, what format they use, and where they send them. Whatever the specifics, the goal is the same: invoices need to arrive in the operator’s system accurately, with the right coding and supporting detail, so they can be approved and paid without delays.

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What Suppliers Need to Know About Invoice Submission

If you invoice Journey Energy, the way your invoices reach their accounting team may be about to change.

Journey Energy, a Calgary-based oil and gas producer, is migrating from Open Invoice to IFS. A move like this is mostly an internal project for the operator, but suppliers often feel the effects first: new submission requirements, new formats, and new questions about when payment will arrive.

This post covers what the move means for suppliers, what to prepare, and how to keep invoicing fast and accurate during the transition.

What is IFS?

IFS is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform that companies use to manage finance, supply chain, assets, and operations in one system. It offers industry-specific solutions, including for energy and resources companies, and accounts payable is one of the areas it covers.

For a supplier, the important point is that once an operator runs its payables in IFS, every invoice you send has to end up as a clean supplier invoice record in that system. Missing or inconsistent data tends to mean an invoice gets held up for review.

Why a system change matters to suppliers

Even when an operator handles the migration well, suppliers can run into friction:

  • Slower cash flow. Every resubmission pushes your payment date out.
  • New submission steps. The way invoices are received, coded, and approved can change.
  • Manual re-entry. If your team has to key invoice data into a new portal or template, billing time goes up.
  • Rejected or delayed invoices. Small errors in invoice numbers, amounts, or coding details can send an invoice back for correction.

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Automating your invoice submissions into IFS with EMI

EMI (EnterMyInvoice) is built to help suppliers submit invoices to oil and gas operators without the manual data entry. For suppliers who invoice Journey Energy, EMI can help automate submissions into IFS.
With EMI, you simply email us your invoices as a PDF, XML or Excel file. Our platform uses OCR and AI to extract and upload the data into IFS.
Additionally, you receive a portal where you can view the status on each invoice, and if (and why) an inoice gets rejected.

The benefits for suppliers are straightforward:

  • Hours saved each week. Your billing team spends less time re-keying and correcting invoices.
  • Fewer errors. Automated capture and validation reduce the mistakes that cause rejections.
  • Faster cash flow. Cleaner submissions move through approval more smoothly, which helps you get paid sooner.

A supplier checklist for the transition

If you invoice Journey Energy, here’s how to prepare:

  1. Confirm the process with Journey Energy. Ask your contact how invoices should be submitted going forward and whether any requirements are changing.
  2. Check your invoice details. Make sure your invoices consistently include the information the operator needs, such as PO or work order references, field or AFE coding where applicable, and clear line items.
  3. Measure your current effort. Estimate how many hours per week your team spends preparing and submitting invoices manually. This tells you what automation could save.
  4. Review your rejection rate. Note how often invoices are sent back and why. The most common reasons are the first thing to fix.
  5. Look at automation early. It’s easier to adopt a new process at the start of a transition than after you’ve built workarounds.

Automate Invoice Submissions Into IFS

Ready to get started? Connect with a team member to learn more about how your organization can automate invoice data entry into IFS using EnterMyInvoice.

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Frequently asked questions

Will automating my invoices speed up payment?

Cleaner, more accurate submissions can help invoices move through approval faster. Payment timing is still determined by the operator’s terms and approval process.

Do I need to change how I invoice Journey Energy?

That depends on the submission requirements Journey sets. Confirm directly with your Journey Energy contact. Automation tools like EMI are designed to make any change easier to handle.

How much could EMI help save me per month?

Contact our team to see the ROI on using EnterMyInvoice.

Ready to simplify invoicing into IFS? Contact EMI to see how automated invoice submission can save your team time and speed up payment.