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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. Lockbox services may seem outdated in today’s ecosystem of electronic payments and cloud-based financial management platforms.

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

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As Biegel explained, a lack of data standardization across payment tools remains a challenge to the reconciliation and cash application process, even when that data is electronic. Lockbox Data Headaches. Yet payers include a vast array of information with their check payments, and lockbox providers relay that data in different ways.

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AI Rides To Rescue Of Analog Accounting Processes

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All too often, he said, bringing automated payments processes and reconciliation, as well as improved cash collections, are not viewed as offering significant enough returns on investment. With virtual cards, he said, a portion of that interchange rate gets shared with the payer.

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Preserving Check Workflows Can Ease B2B Payments Digitization

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According to Reed, Deluxe’s lockbox services process $2 trillion worth of paper check payments every year, and there is no silver bullet to transitioning that volume to electronic payment method all at once. By virtualizing the paper check and wielding API integrations in between payer and recipient, those workflows become smoother.

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Why Platforms Hold The Key To Igniting ePayables

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percent of survey respondents reporting that they are “very” or “extremely” satisfied with paper checks, it seems like B2B payers really don’t find them to be all that bad. Yes, checks were nearly bottom-of-the-barrel in terms of satisfaction levels, but with 63.5 Keeping the Supplier In Mind.

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