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How AR Can Usher The Legacy Lockbox Into The Digital Age

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Take the lockbox, for example. It’s a service designed around the ubiquity of the paper check, and with checks still a popular payment tool in B2B transactions, lockbox services remain in high-demand. Lockbox services may seem outdated in today’s ecosystem of electronic payments and cloud-based financial management platforms.

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How Banks Can Benefit From Partnering With FinTechs

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When it comes to treasury market offerings, banks have historically started wholesale and retail lockbox businesses. But, as payment types and payment channels have grown to become more electronic, the amount of lockbox payments is declining rapidly. Most commonly, those payments are sent by automated clearing house (ACH).

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Billtrust CEO On Delivering The Perfect B2B Payment

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The industry thinks, if we can just get this payment on ACH or card, the problem goes away," reflected Lane. With ACH , the biggest challenge often comes in the form of remittance data being emailed separately from the movement of funds. And one buyer-supplier relationship may benefit from the familiarity of ACH more than another.

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Commercial Cards: It’s All About The Data

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Historically, businesses would submit paper checks stapled to a stack of invoices, or wield check lockbox services that, while inefficient, could at least clarify which transactions were to be applied to which invoices. Data’s Favorite Payment Rails.

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Why The Time Is Right For Banks To Tap Into Integrated Receivables

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While treasury management has always been a critical component of bank offerings, most treasury management solutions today are limited to lockbox processing. Those may include automated clearing house (ACH), wire transfers, credit cards and payments through payment portals.

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Buyers, Suppliers Converge Around Virtual Cards

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While checks, wires and most ACH transactions are limited as to what kind of data you can have, commercial credit cards aren’t. And with Boost’s “virtual card lockbox” STP platform, there is no need for buyers or suppliers to share bank account information.

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Bending Card Rails For B2B Payments Optimization

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At the same time, unlike ACH, funds may not actually leave the company coffers for 30, 60 or even 90 days after the payment has been made, providing valuable capital float on the buy side. Together, this represents a dual-sided advantage that is key for vendors who are struggling in a climate of late payments and a lack of predictability.

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