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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. What is the role of a lockbox today? Modernizing the Lockbox. What is its historical role?

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What ‘Work From Home’ Means For Paper-Based AR Departments

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The trend presents a unique conundrum for organizations’ order-to-cash operations, especially when businesses’ own clients continue to pay via paper check : The check may be in the mail, but how can a business apply that cash if there is no one at the office to open it? Lockbox Data Headaches.

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Santander Commercial Bank Delivers New Products and Digital Capabilities to Drive More Seamless Client Experiences

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The Bank expanded its suite of digital cash management solutions with the following new products and services in 2024: Digital Checks: Clients can now send check payments faster and more securely via email while reducing or eliminating costs associated with paper checks. to offer clients mobile virtual cards.

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Preserving Check Workflows Can Ease B2B Payments Digitization

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Although a recent uptick in B2B payments innovation has accelerated corporates’ migration away from the paper check, old habits die hard, and the legacy payment tool remains a mainstay in the accounts payable (AP) department. “Checks will be around for a while. Preserving Check Workflows.

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Commercial Cards: It’s All About The Data

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That’s particularly true in accounts receivable (AR), with B2B suppliers not only needing money to flow in from their buyers, but high-quality transaction data for reconciliation, reporting and analytics. A Reconciliation Headache. According to Dean M. Data’s Favorite Payment Rails.

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Billtrust CEO On Delivering The Perfect B2B Payment

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Second, AR professionals working from home could no longer run credit cards from their desks or accept paper checks in the mail. And third, a further slowdown of the postal system added even greater friction to the paper check, leading to longer days sales outstanding (DSO). But further education is needed, said Lane. Going Public.

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Healthcare's Back Office Catches Up To The Industry's Digitization Push

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Like so many other organizations, B2B payments strategies had to be adjusted with personnel who were unable to physically work in an office space to send and receive paper checks. In the accounts receivable (AR) function, Franco noted that Nurx implemented lockboxes in order to centralize the receipt of paper checks from insurance companies.

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