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Accounts Payable Fraud: 5 Things You Need to Know

Criminal activity in B2B payments is on the rise, but circumventing this problem begins with being aware of why it’s...

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AP Automation: The Benefits of Going Paperless

Paper invoices and late payments are overwhelming, but paperless AP automation can enhance efficiency, reduce costs,...

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How to Strategically Improve Your Vendor Payment Processes

No vendor wants to be left questioning the status of their payments, and AP automation is becoming a proven way to pay...

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8 Reasons Businesses Avoid AP Automation

Automation may seem like a difficult endeavor at first, but knowing why businesses avoid automation can help answer all...

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Top 10 Benefits of Invoice Automation

Utilizing invoice automation technology takes away the variables involved with manual invoice processing, bringing a...

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Reducing Invoice Processing Costs With AP Automation

If manual invoice processing costs are getting in the way of your business’s growth and progress, then it’s time to see...

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Eliminate These 10 Bottlenecks with Automated Invoice Processing

Optimization of accounts payable processes begins with identifying bottlenecks in invoice processing and utilizing AP...

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How ACH Payments Fit into AP Automation

ACH transactions today are able to integrate seamlessly with AP automation technology–offering enhanced efficiency,...

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Top AP Automation Trends For 2025

As automation continues to re-map accounts payable operations, awareness of the latest trends will help businesses...

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How AP Automation Enhances Vendor Relationships

Having solid relationships with your vendors is an aspect of doing good business, as it ensures your operation...

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Which B2B Payment is Best? Checks vs ACH vs Virtual Cards

If your organization is considering adopting an end-to-end accounts payable (AP) automation solution, you’re probably...

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What is Invoice Capture and Why Is it Important in AP Automation?

Accounts payable (AP) automation is an important series of steps leading to vendor payment, account reconciliation, and...

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The Connection Between AP Automation and Cash Flow Management

Accounts payable (AP) automation technology is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their finances today. From...

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The Biggest Questions Vendors Have About Payment Automation

Whether your organization has begun adopting AP automation or not, you’ve probably been hearing a lot about payment...

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Selecting the Right AP Automation Solution for Your Business

Accounts payable (AP) automation is a technology that allows you to streamline the processing of invoices and payments...

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Optimizing Accounts Payable with 3-Way Matching and AP Automation

In accounts payable (AP), paying bills on time and accurately involves a lot of steps. Automated 3-way matching works...

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How Virtual Card Payments Benefit Accounts Payable

Finding ways to streamline payment processes is one of the top goals of accounts payable departments today, and...

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A Guide to AP Automation Adoption

If you're still processing paper invoices in your accounts payable (AP) department, you’re not alone: At least 81.5% of...

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10 Ways AP Automation Reduces Security Threats and Fraud

In today’s business environment, it’s not unheard of for an accounts payable department to be understaffed, struggling...

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5 Common Pitfalls In AP Automation Implementation (And How to Avoid Them)

Moving forward with selecting an accounts payable (AP) automation solution is a big step in the productivity and growth...

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Measuring AP Automation ROI: 8 Must-Know KPIs

Whether you’re considering an AP automation solution for your business or you’ve implemented one already, knowing how...

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The Role of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Accounts Payable

How does robotic process automation (RPA) work in accounts payable, and what kinds of tasks can it manage? Here’s a...

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5 Reasons to Stop Paying Suppliers by Paper Check

Eliminating B2B paper checks not only streamlines your AP processes, but it also reduces costly errors, prevents fraud,...

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AP Automation to AP Optimization: Where Machine Meets Strategy

AP automation is revolutionizing the world of accounts payable, but AP optimization involves using automation as a tool...

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Why Every Business Needs Vendor Payment Automation

Automating vendor payments is a way to streamline accounts payable, reduce errors, and protect your business from...

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A Guide to OCR Invoice Processing In Accounts Payable

OCR technology is changing the way accounts payable manages invoices and vendor payments by eliminating manual data...

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Stampli VS. APSmart: An AP Automation Software Comparison

In this AP automation software comparison, you’ll discover how APSmart stacks up against Stampli for invoice...

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AP Automation Best Practices For 2023

Understanding accounts payable best practices is key to choosing the right automation solution for your organization....

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B2B Payment Automation Best Practices Guide for 2023

If you haven’t already noticed, payments automation has come a long way recently. In fact, with the AP automation...

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Why You Must Read “The Ultimate Guide to AP Automation for Auto Dealerships”

It’s no secret that your AP department plays a major role in the success of your auto dealership. Not only do its...

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3 Reasons Why Your Auto Dealership Should Stop Paying with Personal Credit Cards

Personal credit cards are still a popular way for businesses to cover expenses, whether it’s for products, office...

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5 Reasons Why Dealerships Should Avoid Paying By Check

It’s time for your auto dealership’s AP department to go from Stone Age to the Digital Age with electronic payments!...

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APSmart vs. Yooz vs. Corpay: A 2022 Comparison Guide

Learn how three accounts payable software contenders deliver cost and time savings with AP automation and payment...

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Best AP Automation Solutions for Auto Dealerships in 2022

Like many accounts payable departments, yours is likely inundated with time-consuming, manual tasks like data entry,...

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9 Things To Know When Planning Your B2B Payment Processing Strategy

Winding down Q2

As we throttle through what remains of summer, most accounting and finance leaders are dealing with...

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Dash AP Robot VS. APSmart | AP Automation for SYSPRO Comparison

Although we may be inclined to say that our accounts payable automation solution is the best on the market, the reality...

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Outlining Optimal AP Automation for Netsuite

Last updated 9/18/2023 by Chris Cosgrove, Chief Revenue Offer at CloudX

Optimal procure-to-pay (P2P) processes...

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The Seven Integral Components Of A Powerful Invoice Management System

They say that "music moves the soul".

This is true, and when it comes to music, and specifically orchestral type...

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5 Ways Integrated Payables Will Maximize Accounts Payable Value

Businesses look for value where they can find it and rightly so

This drives internal improvements and causes...

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6 Ways To Improve Accounts Payable Audit Readiness

Let’s face it...some things you have to go through that are just...the worst.

It’s part of life. Anyone who has ever...

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7 Common Accounts Payable Risks And How To Mitigate Them

Last updated July 6, 2022 by Chris Cosgrove, Chief Revenue Officer & Co-Founder of CloudX

The good book states that...

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The Top Nine Accounts Payable Metrics You Should Be Tracking But Probably Aren't!

It's been said that a mind stretched by a new idea can't return to its original dimensions.

You can source that to...

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7 Reasons Why You Should Consider Going With A B2B Payments Partner

The busiest time of the year

For many companies, the fourth quarter represents some of the most challenging times of...

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Exploring Where Accounts Payable Software & ePayments Meet For SMBs

You know why they call me Prison Mike?

SMB’s can hardly be categorized “da belle of da ball” in the now famous Michael...

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Is AP Automation Worth It?

Count the cost!

It’s always a good idea to determine whether something you’re thinking about doing is worthy of the...

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Harnessing AI Via AP Automation

Rise of the machines

There’s increasing buzz over the impact of AI (artificial intelligence) in the workplace. With all...

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3 Reasons To Consider Virtual MasterCard For ePayments

They say you can never get enough of a good thing.

This certainly holds true for certain food items...especially if...

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How much does AP Automation cost? - Updated 2022

Last updated September 13, 2022, edited by Chris Cosgrove, CloudX Co-Founder

How much is it?

“How much is it?” If...

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Making the best use of data in Accounts Payable Software

It’s all Greek to me.

We’ve all heard this adage in one context or another.

In the day and age of big data however,...

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Best Accounts Payable Software for 2017 and beyond?

Let's take a trip down memory lane

So a while back we wrote up a similar post , but the time is right to revisit given...

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5 Must Have Tools When Buying Accounts Payable Software

Decisions Decision

It’s hard not to like the NBC’s The Office. Even despite the fact that the show has been off-air for...

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Why Invoice Automation Through Accounts Payable Software Paves The Way For ePayments

Get The Junk Out

If you’ve ever seen the TV show Hoarders, you’re in for a real treat. Through its raw and real...

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Harness Accounts Payable Software To Optimize Vendor Payments

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.  

However, I had a buddy who once said that “you can salt...

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3 Workflow Non-Negotiables When Evaluating Accounts Payable Software

People love to buy things but they never like to be sold.

There’s a certain awkwardness to buying things especially of...

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How much does Accounts Payable software impact the cost of processing an invoice?

This is not an ode to 90’s West coast rep!

However, in terms of the Accounts Payable landscape, it seems to be an item...

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3 Ways To Stop Accounts Payable Fraud With Accounts Payable Software

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Sometimes You Have To Deal With The Ugly Things

One might think that...

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The Virtues and Perils of Going It Alone Without Accounts Payable Software

The Myth of Overnight Success

You know all too often we look to one hit wonders and overnight successes as the model of...

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Is Accounts Payable Software For The Masses A Reality?

Sometimes it’s nice to go to your happy place.  

At least that worked for Happy Gilmore when he needed to ice the...

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Tapping Into Accounts Payable Software For Process Optimization

Techno...logic?

If you haven’t taken the time to listen to Daft Punk’s tasty techno tunes, then you’re missing out. Or...

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Accounts Payable Software & APIs

There’s little doubt that accounts payable software provides a significant uplift in process efficiency, visibility,...

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Accounts Payable Software Plus This Equals AP Juggernaut

Newsflash

As you may have come to know from perusing our blog for even a brief while, we’re ardent promoters of the...

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Using Accounts Payable Software To Kill Checks

This should really come as no surprise

...but times are changingPart of that change is going to come by means of how...

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Dispelling 3 Myths About AP Automation

I Want To Believe...

With today’s brief, we want to address three key myths that surround Accounts Payable automation....

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How much should Accounts Payable Software for automation cost? Depends on your B2B payments!

How much should Accounts Payable Software for automation cost? Depends on your B2B payments!

Well, despite winter’s...

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B2B Payments - The Tip Of The Spear To Transforming The Accounts Payable Process!

Let's set the record straight!

The primary reason for writing this post today is to confound traditional thinking in a...

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Leveraging B2B Payments To Drive Value

Identifying Value Is Key

CFOs and Controllers the world over are pressed with making difficult decisions for their...

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Is eInvoicing Superior To Accounts Payable Automation?

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. -Marcus Aurelius

If...

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Proof Accounts Payable Software Makes An Impact

The proof is in the pudding!

Today’s post is not something that is going to be profound, but rather something that...

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Accounts Payable Software for the new school!

Kickin' It Old School

In today’s post, we want to challenge some old school thinking around Accounts Payable software....

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Making Accounts Payable Great Again

Great Again

In the spirit of the wild ride that has been the election cycle of 2016 and now Inauguration Day 2017, we...

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3 Reasons Why All Companies Don't Pursue AP Automation

Thank God for good teachers!

I remember learning how to type in high school nearly 20 years ago. Our witty, sarcastic,...

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Why SMB Businesses Are Flocking To AP Automation & Monetization

We want to kick off today's post with a quote:

“High-tech tools for the enterprise are no longer reserved for the...

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Is Your Accounts Payable process like unpacking an old suitcase?

The Old Suitcase

If only scanning business documents was as easy as Google is making photo conversion. Yeah, they're...

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Financial Reporting & The AP Automation Imperative in 2017

In today’s post, we want to take some time to review some interesting trends we encountered in our recent industry...

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Is AP Automation Feasible For Me?

Want to set your AP Automation initiative alight?

Where there’s a will there’s a way!

While this might be a simplistic...

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Is AP Automation Necessary?

Not to state the obvious

It may seem like a foregone conclusion that you would say, well you’re an AP automation...

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What is AP Automation?

AP automation is no new thing!

Wikipedia has already done a bang-up job on summarizing it as such, “Accounts payable...

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5 Accounts Payable Workflow Software Best Practices You Need to Know

We will always champion AP automation!

While some may argue that AP automation is old news and bolder, fresher ideas...

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Addressing Change When Implementing Accounts Payable Workflow Software

Change rarely brings about the best in people.

In fact, in most people change tends to reveal their character (for...

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5 Tips To Deploying Accounts Payable Workflow Software Effectively

If You Want Something Done Right...

We’ve all heard the adage that if you want something done right that you should do...

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Beyond Accounts Payable Workflow Software

Beyond is a funny word.

By definition it means ‘at or to the further side’ of a given object. However, the nuance that...

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Accounts Payable Workflow Software - 3 Reasons Why You Need It

An homage to Otto Frederick Rohwedder

Today’s post will be a sort of odd homage to someone you’ve surely never heard...

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What's the best way to fix my Accounts Payable process?

I studied history for a reason.

It was interesting and I did well at it. While it wasn’t my initial course of study, I...

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Distributed vs. Centralized Capture in Today's Accounts Payable Process!

Today’s Mission: Review the challenges of distributed vs. centralized capture and how it impacts the Accounts Payable...

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Is OCR right for my Accounts Payable process?

WHA'S THE BEST LINE FOR YOUR NEXT RIDE?

An all too common question that we get from people who are looking at...

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Where will you Accounts Payable process improvement road lead?

Take the road less traveled!

We're super excited to be live and on scene at the Institute of Financial Management's...

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Leveraging AP Automation technology to empower your AP staff to do first things first!

I read a lot...find that stuff fascinating...

Steven Covey wrote the critically acclaimed and highly influential...

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Harnessing the Cost Reduction Power of Invoice Automation & Payment Optimization

Are you tapping the power of accounts payable automation and payment optimization?

Many pieces have been written on the...

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How to create the ultimate accounts payable process!

Sometimes it’s difficult to see the forest throughthe trees.

In fact, it’s easy to get buried by the grind of the...

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4 reasons virtual payments are the best kept secret in Accounts Payable

Everybody likes a good secret...if they’re in on it.

Not everybody likes a good secret that gets out, but we think that...

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Is payment by Virtual MasterCard the key to AP payment transformation?

Some questions are easier to answer than others.

When I ask my 4 year old the color of an object, or its shape, I get...

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Happy New Year!  More status quo for you or are you looking to get operationally jacked and embrace document process outsourcing?

Happy New Year!

Welcome to a new day, a new season in your journey! Many people begin the new year refreshed and...

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3 Reasons Not To Pursue AP Automation, If You're a Weak Leader

Now is the winter of our discontent...

Getting through the winter of your discontent can be a tough thing especially if...

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Beginning Your Year End Accounts Payable Process Planning for FY2016

So what's the game plan?

Well, it’s that time of the year again...year-end coming on quickly, holidays, strategic...

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Why Accounts Payable Process Leaders Are Capturing More Early Payment Discounts

It’s curious how organizational priorities can change over time and seasons.

It certainly has to do with...

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Why Virtual Payments & Virtual MasterCard Usage Are Skyrocketing!

Too much of a good thing is never enough or so they say.

That is certainly a tried and true theory that will be put to...

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The Biggest Problems Accounts Payable Process Managers Face

Leading is never an easy thing, perhaps now more so than ever.

Decisions, right, wrong, or indifferent are made at...

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5 Ways An Automated Accounts Payable Process Can Make You Rich

Well, the ‘royal’ you as it were at least.

No, this post is not the fabled fountain of youth the Ponce de Leon so...

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5 Misconceptions About Accounts Payable Process Improvement

People say the craziest things at times.

Anytime you’re dealing with novel or leading ideas in the marketplace, you’re...