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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. But the tool’s ability to accept data along with a payment (i.e., What is the role of a lockbox today?

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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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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). And that's just not true.". Going Public.

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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. Even the least sophisticated accounting systems have an ability to organize remittance data into usable information.

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Ticking Off The Boxes On The Fed’s Checklist Of B2B Payments Priorities

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businesses, more often than not, pay their suppliers via paper check still draws quizzical reactions from professionals abroad. understand that paper checks are slow, expensive and risky, and yet they endure. The revelation that U.S. The corporate and financial services communities in the U.S.

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