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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 Lockbox services may seem outdated in today’s ecosystem of electronic payments and cloud-based financial management platforms.
The program, called OneStream Transaction Matching, will work to let companies collect and match large amounts of transactions from numerous sources, enabling the companies to quickly resolve any confusion. The Transaction Matching software goes hand-in-hand with OneStream’s existing Account Reconciliation.
For businesses managing tens of thousands of transactions every month, manually sifting through email inboxes to match remittance data with bank account information is a massive point of friction. A real-time transaction may be more predictable, but it doesn't address the issues of cost and interoperability, said Lane. Going Public.
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Offering solutions that promote workflow automation from sourcing through to payment, reconciliation and accounting is not usually part of an FI’s product roadmap. P2P transactional processing is not part of a bank’s DNA,” said Cichy. Unlocking Data to Unlock Value.
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