Gov Tech

Tsukuba City Moves Invoices Online to Cut Errors and Free Up Staff Time

Tsukuba City in Ibaraki Prefecture has decided to introduce Infomart’s BtoB Platform Invoice, marking another step in its push toward a fully digital local government. The move sits under the city’s Digital Government Promotion Policy, which aims to rethink internal operations, not just digitize paperwork for optics. The trigger was a clear bottleneck. While internal invoice approvals were digitized back in 2022, invoices coming from businesses were still paper based. Staff had to manually reenter invoice data into the financial accounting system, creating room for input errors and forcing repeated checks. For work that demands near perfect accuracy, this consumed time and people who could have been focused on citizen services or policy planning. Also Read: Security Camp Launches ‘Security Camp Connect’ for 2026h The new platform directly links invoice…