Category Archives: B2B Credit and Collections

PayStream Makes Fortune Magazine’s Fastest Growing Inner City Companies in 2011!

PayStream Advisors among the 13th Annual ICIC and Fortune Magazine’s Inner City 100 winners Annual ranking showcases the 100 fastest-growing inner city businesses in America.

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Keeping the Tax Auditor at Bay and Saving Time and Money in the Process

The regulatory environment surrounding sales and use tax is much more complex than most people realize…at least until you consider that there are over 13,000 taxing authorities in the USA, and that they made over 1400 rate changes in 2007.

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The War on Paper Yields Dividends

Credit departments are awash in paper. Consequently, credit analysts and collectors spend an inordinate amount of time filing documents, searching paper files for documents, distributing documents, copying data from documents, waiting for others to send them documents, reprinting invoices and … Continue reading

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Receivables and Collections Management (RCM) Comes of Age

In the two years since we first did an in depth study of Credit and Collection Technology, I have been extremely impressed by the strides the vendors have made in filling out their solutions. B2B credit and collections is a … Continue reading

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Buyer Initiated Payments – Challenges and Benefits

The introduction of Mastercard’s Payment Gateway, coupled with JPMorgan/Xign’s AP Trac into the Accounts Payable and B2b world carries with it a striking promise, the promise of Buyer Initiated Payments (BIP).

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U.S. versus Europe – Leaders, Laggards and Automative Adoption

Have you noticed that the U.S. is a nation of contradictions? This country came up with electricity, the silicon chip, the personal computer, Amazon.com, the iPod, Google, and reality TV (OK, so that’s a bad example). We have very active … Continue reading

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From Abe WalkingBear | Old Set Of Givens (Paradigm) Incompatible with Modern Business

Editor’s note | The following article was submitted to us by Abe WalkingBear, and can be viewed in full here. It comes from our previous discussion on Buyer Initiated Payments.

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Accounts Payable Automation Paves the Road for Enhanced Discount Capture

Until recently, automation efforts in the accounts payable area were focused on invoice and payment management and the operational benefits that technology delivers – cost containment and productivity enhancement.

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The Breakdown of Internal and External Communication via Web Invoicng, Front-End Imaging

Over the years, Web invoicing solutions have emerged to facilitate external exchange of transaction-related information and funds between buyers and suppliers. On the other hand, front-end imaging and workflow solutions have evolved to meet organizations’ internal needs around invoice receipt … Continue reading

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Paystream Report: One trillion-plus in stagnent capital due to outdated B2B processes

It seems fitting that the first post to Paystream Voices is one that identifies the extraordinary importance of automation technologies. A new Paystream Advisors Report has identified an enormous amount of untapped capital stagnating in Fortune 1000 companies, that could … Continue reading

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