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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.".

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What New Payment Rails Miss About Solving B2B’s Remittance Challenge

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One of the biggest points of friction in B2B payments for both buyers and suppliers is capturing information about a transaction, and feeding that data into back-end systems for automated accounting and reconciliation. There’s nothing more valuable than remittance data. This is what businesses are asking for.

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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. The thirst for data among businesses is reaching levels we’ve just never seen before.”.

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How Email, Checks Sabotage Faster Supplier Payments

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Receivable Savvy’s report found 87 percent of suppliers receive payment via paper check, with ACH coming in second (72 percent) and card in third (61 percent). That’s despite 59 percent of suppliers saying their top preference is ACH, and about a quarter saying they prefer to be paid via check.

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Guide to Cash Application Automation Software

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This mitigates the need for manual data entry or interpretation of remittance advice, allowing for a more accurate and expedient reconciliation process. What is remittance data? Remittance data comes in many forms, such as checks, bank transfers, or electronic remittance formats.

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How AR Can Usher The Legacy Lockbox Into The Digital Age

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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., Just like the check is not going to disappear anytime soon, neither will the lockbox.”.

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