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Kresse attributes this inertia to entrenched processes, both at the enterprise level and within some FIs, especially where lockbox services (including receiving and scanning payments) are large revenue generators. Despite that, there is a better option, as roughly 40 percent of B2B payments are still done by paper checks.
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AI has changed the order-to-cash (OTC) landscape, allowing teams across the various processes to be much more efficient while driving continuous improvement of those processes. He noted that for some collections, an “acceptable timeframe” may be within terms; for others, it may be terms plus 10 days (hypothetically speaking).
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Businesses continue to make tough decisions to cope with volatility fueled by the coronavirus pandemic. With personnel working from home, this company could no longer cut and send checks to pay suppliers because AP staff couldn’t access the checks stuck in a lockbox in the office.
I'm not here to say checks are a growth business forever,” he told Webster, even as some verticals such as restaurants will continue to pay their vendors and workers with checks, simply because they’ve been around for so long. But incrementally, the digital shift is making headway. trillion a year — that’s 10 percent to 15 percent of the U.S.
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It’s going to be in a format that is very cumbersome for the supplier to bring into their systems,” he noted, adding that lockbox services and manual data entry costs hit businesses hard. . “While you can send unlimited remittance detail with a check, it’s going to be on paper.
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