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Digital paymentsolutions 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. “Anything away from paper is beneficial.
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.
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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. But it’s just one technology of many.
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