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 Lockbox services may seem outdated in today’s ecosystem of electronic payments and cloud-based financial management platforms.

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Billtrust CEO On Delivering The Perfect B2B Payment

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With ACH , the biggest challenge often comes in the form of remittance data being emailed separately from the movement of funds. For businesses managing tens of thousands of transactions every month, manually sifting through email inboxes to match remittance data with bank account information is a massive point of friction.

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Commercial Cards: It’s All About The Data

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“There is an expectation that when there is some form of transaction between trading partners, usable data will also flow between them,” said Leavitt. Even the least sophisticated accounting systems have an ability to organize remittance data into usable information. Data’s Favorite Payment Rails.

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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. “It really minimizes the disruption.” But addressing payee needs is just as critical to easing the digital migration.

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Moving Beyond Silos For AR Management

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The historically fragmented nature of disparate services and payment solutions, ranging from credit cards to ACH to mobile payments to lockbox and remote deposit capture is a driving force in corporate banking clients’ desire for truly integrated receivables solutions.

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

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“The intent of the organization is to help payers better identify [the] payee information they need in order to make electronic payments,” he said in an interview, adding that the directory aims to be “payment agnostic” and support payments made via a variety of rails, including FedWire, ACH, SWIFT, lockbox and, yes, paper check.

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