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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 Lockbox services may seem outdated in today’s ecosystem of electronic payments and cloud-based financial management platforms.
With so many processes still based on paper, accounts receivable (AR) departments within organizations that are less advanced in their digitization journeys are facing added friction as workers are sent home. .” Lockbox Data Headaches. Automating Lockbox Data – And Beyond. ” asked Biegel.
They want to accelerate that process when they are trying to collect cash. remote work) layered on to that process. Many companies rely on a bank/service provider to handle outsourced lockboxprocessing. All of those payments can be scanned and automatically reconciled as part of that process.
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