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The industry thinks, if we can just get this payment on ACH or card, the problem goes away," reflected Lane. With ACH , the biggest challenge often comes in the form of remittance data being emailed separately from the movement of funds. And one buyer-supplier relationship may benefit from the familiarity of ACH more than another.
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This manual process not only takes up valuable time and resources but adds a ton of cost — mailing invoices in-house can be quite expensive. Their processes are both dated and inefficient. “There’s no reason that this process can’t be automated, and we’ve been successful in doing that.
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