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In B2B payments, the commercialcard has experienced a dramatic spike in adoption this year as organizations accelerated their digital transformations and, unable to physically enter the office, began to rely on electronic payments to conduct their business. Winter Blues. Spring’s SMB Support. Spring began in dramatic fashion.
Something as simple as not being able to go into the office and write a check, or open up the mail and deposit a check, is becoming a real issue for those businesses that are not digital and still rely on manual processes,” he told Karen Webster in a recent PYMNTS interview. A Surge In CommercialCard Interest.
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In the constant fight against paper, service providers have been tackling the paper check in B2B payments for several years, with minimal success. ACH has often been assumed to be the payment rail poised to take over paper checks as the dominant rail in B2B payments. “Folks do not want to sign up for ACH. .
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Card solutions, instead, can be an “intermediary solution” for the supply chain when its players are looking to transition from paper checks to electronic payments. The best way for suppliers to accept payment is ACH , argued the executive. But, I think, ACH will be the destination.”.
Initially, this came in the form of purchase cards that gave managers the ability to allow their employees to make purchases on behalf of their companies, from office supplies to travel and expense spending. Leavitt says suppliers are indeed more difficult than buyers to convince of commercialcards’ value proposition.
Witness the rise of commercialcard products and rebates over the past several decades, where Aquilina said “the focus really generated heat around the buyer and the cardholder that was absolutely not matched by banks on the supplier or merchant side.”. Suppliers have been pretty much forced to accept cards.
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“It’s not only the cost savings of having to print and mail checks and reconciliation pains that go into that existing process,” he said. “Now, clients are actually receiving a revenue share for making a virtual payment — or even with ACH. “I don’t think checks will ever go away.
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In the absence of corporate travel and entertainment, as the road warriors stay (and work) at home, it may make sense that commercialcard use would see a pause in the B2B space. Buyers are being forced to rethink their procurement spend … and perhaps are finally ready to abandon the paper check.
is partnering with Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) to help healthcare organizations pay suppliers with commercialcards, Boost announced today (Nov. Commercialcards have become an effective cash management solution, especially during the pandemic’s disruptive effects on how organizations choose to pay and hold cash.
Commercialcards make up just a fraction of the supplier payments space, but the rise in virtual card technology – and the efficiency and security that come along with it – could help card issuers grab a larger slice of the B2B payments market. Virtual cards are the true proxy for payment,” he said.
Accounts payable company MineralTree just gave a big show of support for commercialcards when it announced this week it is partnering with American Express (Amex) to offer companies an integrated platform to support supplier payments via virtual commercialcard. Maybe you’re not a merchant.”.
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