From design to cash, without the chaos.

Avanto is a workflow automation software company serving commercial interiors dealers, manufacturers, installers, rep groups, designers, and end users. The commercial interiors workflow has twelve stages from readiness assessment through invoicing. Avanto automates ten of them:

• Specification
• Quoting and PDF to SIF/XML conversion
• Order entry and acknowledgement comparison
• Order management
• Logistics
• Installation coordination
• Punch list closeout
• Warranty
• Billing
• Finance back office: accounts payable, accounts receivable, bookkeeping, close, HR admin, and controller support

All delivered by Avanto's team on top of the systems you already use.

Strata is Avanto's AI-driven workflow automation software built for manufacturing industries, with deep specialization in commercial interiors operations. It serves dealers, manufacturers, installers, rep groups, designers, and end users across the full project lifecycle.

What does Strata do?

• Connects data, workflows, and decisions across separate platforms
• Automates the order-to-cash process from specification through billing
• Integrates with the ERP and design systems companies already use without replacing them
• Coordinates actions across dealers, manufacturers, installers, and customers in a single workflow layer

How does Strata work?

Strata is the software layer. Avanto's team is the operating layer that runs the work inside it, so companies get both the technology and the people to operate it.

PDF to SIF/XML conversion is the automated process of transforming manufacturer quote PDFs into structured data files that commercial interiors ERP systems can import directly.

How does PDF to SIF/XML conversion work in Strata?

• Strata reads the manufacturer quote PDF automatically
• Converts it into SIF (Standard Interchange Format) or XML depending on what the receiving system requires
• Product, quantity, and pricing data lands in the ERP as structured data
• No manual re-entry and no chasing manufacturers for files they do not have

Who is PDF to SIF/XML conversion for?

It is a standard feature of Strata available to every client: dealers, manufacturers, and operations teams across the commercial interiors industry.

No. Strata layers on top of the platforms your team already works in, whatever ERP, design and quoting tools those are. Data typically flows both ways, so your people keep working in the tools they know. Where a system has no API, Avanto integrates by file exchange, email capture, or RPA. Nothing gets ripped out.

Avanto provides five managed back-office service families for commercial interiors companies, each available at three levels of depth:

• AP support: vendor bills, check runs, GL coding, 1099s
• AR support: invoicing, cash application, collections, AR reporting
• Bookkeeping and financial close: bank recs, sales tax, WIP, month-end close
• HR admin support: payroll, onboarding, benefits, Form 5500
• Controller support: board reporting, budget and forecast, ERP admin, lender reporting

How do the service levels work?

Levels 1 to 3 scale from transaction processing through to controller-level oversight, and are available independently of the workflow stages.

Start with the five-minute readiness quiz, which scores where your operations stand today. The full Readiness Assessment is a four to six week engagement that maps every one of the twelve stages as it actually runs, classifies each bottleneck by impact, prioritizes what to automate in what order, and attaches an ROI projection. The deliverable is a prioritized automation roadmap, produced before anything gets automated.