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Digitizing B2B Payments The Hybrid Way

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In point of fact, most businesses of any size have a hybrid treasury-accounting back office where digital tools and paper instruments coexist. Many businesses still generate paper checks from the setup of their accounting systems,” Michael Reed, general manager of payments at Deluxe, told PYMNTS. Paper Wait.

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AP Automation Is Ready For WFH Accounting

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Legacy payment options like paper are getting nudged out by faster better methods like credit cards, which are more cost-effective for buyers’ accounts payable (AP) teams to send and quicker for suppliers’ accounts receivable (AR) professionals to receive. merchant services at American Express, told PYMNTS.

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Canada’s Path Toward B2B Payables Modernization

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Some of the biggest industry trends, including faster payments, open banking and bank-FinTech collaboration, have found their ways into the Canadian market, the B2B payments space is not immune to disruption from these shifts. According to Lansdowne-Higgins, among the biggest challenges in accounts payable today is the data silos.

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Billtrust, Priority Streamline B2B Payments Reconciliation

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Order-to-cash solutions provider Billtrust has added Priority Commercial Payments to its Business Payments Network (BPN) to streamline B2B payments reconciliation, the companies said in a press release this week. Acquirers and accounts receivable platforms can also connect to the network to capture transaction data for end-users.

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Fundbox Pay Expands To B2B Marketplaces

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The $24 trillion global B2B commerce opportunity, as PYMNTS readers know, is continually — and has been historically — plagued by the paper chase. In terms of payments technology and alternative lending, B2C and B2B may be respectively seen as digital versions of the hare and tortoise. focused B2B sales. A Major Gap.

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Personalization And Contextual Banking Will Drive The Consumerization Of B2B Payments

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The consumerization of B2B payments is taking its cue from contextual commerce. Every bank can offer ACH and card payments, but application programming interfaces ( APIs ), gathering data from disparate parts of the financial ecosystem, are helping make the bank account the focal point of the corporate’s universe, embedded into the ERP.

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Vision33 Buys iDocuments Suite For Accounting Automation Possibilities

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1) press release , saying the acquisition will provide the company with access to new automation options and better visibility for B2B processes, among other benefits. Accounts payable (AP) automation has been “leading the way” on digitization, with new virtual cards becoming more common, he said.