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He told Karen Webster in a recent conversation that coronavirus disruption will likely become a catalyst to B2B payments digitization as AP departments are forced to operate entirely online. Improving B2B payment processes means addressing challenges on both the AR and AP side of a B2B transaction.
Paper-based payment methods such as checks and cash are awkward and cumbersome in either business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions. Such legacy payment methods are usually tied to paper-based invoices and manual tracking and reconciliation procedures, which impede payments from being processed in a timely manner.
Buyers, too, are eager for change and need to adopt accounts payable (AP) methods that are easily managed by employees working from home. Frictions like these are pushing more businesses to rethink their legacy approaches to business-to-business (B2B) payments and adopting various digital options for sending money. About The Report.
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He still predicted that easy-to-use B2B payment apps could supplant paper-based processes, and that the pandemic-driven shift to remote operations could spur this transition. Business owners are more removed from their companies’ APprocesses when staff are working in different locations, after all.
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Finance is no exception and AP in particular offers valuable insights. Digitizing and automating the APprocess gives businesses easy access to a rich dataset about invoicing and payments that can make a big difference in how the business operates.
As a whole, these services have one thing in common: They all reflect technology’s heightened ability to promote stronger buyer-supplier partnerships, with solutions that deepen AR-AP ties while also looking at ways to use automation, data intelligence and FinTech to ease friction for both ends of the B2B transaction.
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