This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
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 Lockbox services may seem outdated in today’s ecosystem of electronic payments and cloud-based financial management platforms.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 ACH , the biggest challenge often comes in the form of remittancedata being emailed separately from the movement of funds. For businesses managing tens of thousands of transactions every month, manually sifting through email inboxes to match remittancedata with bank account information is a massive point of friction.
“There is an expectation that when there is some form of transaction between trading partners, usable data will also flow between them,” said Leavitt. Even the least sophisticated accounting systems have an ability to organize remittancedata into usable information. Data’s Favorite Payment Rails.
For banks, according to an e-book by payments processing firm FTNI, receivables management is a constant juggling act across corporate customers, and their own internal daily ebb and flow of cash flow. Receivables management can be as much art as science. Innovation, said FTNI, is key, but the right type of innovation is even more important.
But, as Buettner recently told PYMNTS, the BPDA has additional objectives in mind that speak to the various points of friction that plague B2B payments processes today, including longer payment cycles for suppliers and the ever-increasing risk of fraud.
According to Reed, Deluxe’s lockbox services process $2 trillion worth of paper check payments every year, and there is no silver bullet to transitioning that volume to electronic payment method all at once. “It really minimizes the disruption.”
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 5,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content