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In B2B payments, the commercialcard has experienced a dramatic spike in adoption this year as organizations accelerated their digital transformations and, unable to physically enter the office, began to rely on electronic payments to conduct their business. Winter Blues. Spring’s SMB Support.
Corporates across the Asia Pacific region are increasing their use of commercialcard products, according to a new report from Citi. Businesses increased their spend on commercialcards by 24 percent in 2017, Citi’s analysis found. Reports in The Asset on Thursday (Oct. Reports in The Asset on Thursday (Oct.
It’s an area of business spend friction that is driving a newfound resurgence in commercialcard innovation that the card industry hasn’t seen in decades, with FinTech firms stepping in to take advantage of card transaction data. ” The Biggest Culprits Of Waste. Nixing The Personal Guarantee.
Commercialcards have struggled to gain widespread adoption in B2B payments, and new research from Mercator Advisory Group aims to explain why — and how to overcome those adoption barriers. But corporate buyers often prefer cards to obtain rewards points.
Faster payment initiatives, a focus on application programming interfaces (APIs) and data integrations and efforts to elevate traditional B2B paymenttools like ACH and commercialcards all made waves this summer. Elevating the CommercialCard.
Though credit cards were not originally designed to address the needs of corporate payers, advances in commercialcard technology have positioned the paymenttool as one that’s gaining traction in the accounts payable department. “But in the cross-border space, it’s a different ball game.”
Digital payment solutions may be taking off in the AR department, but not all electronic paymenttools are created equal. Even more traditional paymenttools, like credit cards, don’t have a high enough corporate value for suppliers, he added. But, I think, ACH will be the destination.”.
Analysts and industry players generally have their bets set on ACH to help guide accounts payable toward electronic payments, and indeed, research suspects ACHpayments will finally surpass paper checks in corporate payments (the Federal Reserve’s latest data found it already has).
With its solution designed to address friction in supplier commercialcard acceptance, Nium ‘s InstaReM brand announced the expansion of BizPay into a new market: Australia. It’s a mixing of payment rails that aims to overcome one of the largest barriers to commercialcard adoption.
Technologies and payment solutions are finding the opportunity to multitask with solutions that, while initially focused on the corporate buyer, have now expanded to tackle friction for the supplier as well. Boost Gives Suppliers A Voice In Card Acceptance. CardUp Eases Card Adoption In Asia.
Initially, this came in the form of purchase cards that gave managers the ability to allow their employees to make purchases on behalf of their companies, from office supplies to travel and expense spending. Leavitt says suppliers are indeed more difficult than buyers to convince of commercialcards’ value proposition.
Yet adoption remains limited, largely thanks to corporates' ongoing use of more traditional payment methods like ACH or even physical cards. Comdata Digitizes Legacy Fleet PaymentTool. Embracing the virtual card opportunity is Comdata, a FLEETCOR company, which announced last week the rollout of Virtual Comchek.
When the commercialcard first came on the scene, executives thought of the paymenttool in limited terms: a piece of plastic their employees could use to make one-off purchases at the office supply or hardware store, buy a coffee while on a business trip or take a client out to dinner.
Bank Senior Vice President of Corporate Payments Robert Kaufman, is that there are so many versions of these accounting platforms and so many ways to customize them that ensuring B2B paymentstools integrate properly isn’t a sure bet. ” U.S. But it’s just one technology of many.
Further, researchers found that the businesses least in need of going digital — the companies already making a low percentage of their B2B payments with checks — are taking the most aggressive approach to implementing electronic paymenttools. That means 55 percent are content sticking to paper and manual payments.
Banks need modern infrastructure, but instead of overhauling their pipelines internally, financial institutions have begun striking strategic partnerships with FinTech and payments innovators. Banks find it expensive to serve the bill payment needs of small businesses because so many of the payments have to be sent via check,” Kriplani said.
It’s a stark contrast from its historical high of 81 percent in 2004, analysts noted, and suggests checks are steadily declining within corporate payments. The AFP’s report was released the same week a range of new electronic B2B paymenttools were announced, the latest in a deluge of digital payment solutions emerging in recent years.
Their collaboration , announced Thursday (March 16), will see OnPay’s payment automation services integrated into Nivo1’s AP Express accounts payable platform, enabling AP Express to act as an end-to-end platform for corporate clients to manage and pay invoices straight from the platform using OnPayConnect.
Their 2017 survey contains data points that all point to one conclusion: Companies are forced to reshape their payment strategies thanks to a combination of factors, including the rising threat of payments fraud, increased globalization and high payment volumes. But how businesses reshape their payment practices varies.
Checks undeniably still play a role in corporate payments: PYMNTS and Mastercard found in their joint The B2B Payments Tipping Point report that checks remain the most common payment method both for making and receiving B2B payments, and surprisingly, satisfaction with checks is relatively high among surveyed corporates.
With the average invoice taking more than eight days for processing, companies can struggle to act quickly enough to secure those early payment discount opportunities before it’s too late, not to mention help companies avoid late payment fees.
In the area of commercial and virtual cards, for instance, connecting corporate buyers with a card solution they can integrate into their AP processes is nice. However, it doesn’t address one of the most significant barriers to commercialcard adoption: supplier acceptance.
That’s where Levelset operates, and while Wolfe said the company isn’t not interested in enabling the actual payment to occur within its platform, the company will continue to focus its efforts on removing those pre-transaction barriers to getting subcontractors paid more quickly.
Between legacy tools like paper checks, contemporary solutions like ACH and potential emerging innovations like the blockchain, B2B payments are no longer stuck with their head in the sand when it comes to payments evolution. No solution is exactly the same.”.
With accounts payable (AP) solutions increasingly paying attention to supplier needs, commercialcard technologies have expanded their focus on both the AP and accounts receivable (AR) side of B2B transactions. OnPay Talks V-Card Adoption. Rather, v-cards must play a part in a collective ecosystem of a range of paymenttools.
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