Accounts Payable

Accounts Payable
62% of Businesses Make ERP Integration the Top AP Test
September 09, 2026

For accounts payable software buyers, the quality of the connections now carries more weight than the size of the price tag. That shift runs through “Who Decides Now,” the July edition of the Business Payments Tracker from PYMNTS Intelligence and WEX. The report finds that...

Accounts Payable
CFOs Find Working Capital Hiding in Every Payment
August 27, 2026

Watch more: Need to Know With Priority Commerce’s Court Toomey The next working capital lever for chief financial officers may not require renegotiating supplier terms, borrowing more cheaply or squeezing additional days out of days payable outstanding. It may already be embedded in the payment...

Accounts Payable
AP Automation Can’t Fix What It Can’t Connect
August 05, 2026

Accounts payable has no shortage of automation. However, the July edition of the Business Payments Tracker® Series, a PYMNTS Intelligence collaboration with WEX, revealed that functionality alone cannot modernize payment operations. Businesses can digitize invoices, route approvals, detect duplicate payments, reconcile transactions and embed supplier...

Accounts Payable
Virtual Cards Are Making Paper Checks Look Expensive
June 11, 2026

Watch more: Payments That Pay You Back The modernization of accounts payable (AP) no longer stops at digitizing paper checks. And finance teams shouldn’t stop there, either. “What’s changed is where payments are showing up,” said Ryan Taylor, senior vice president of product management for...

Accounts Payable
The Back Office Gets Smarter as AI Transforms Supplier Payments
March 24, 2026

For years, accounts payable (AP) was judged by how little trouble it caused, but new data suggests it may now be creating room for faster payments, better supplier experiences and stronger control over cash. That is the broad takeaway from the November 2025 Accounts Payable Tracker...

Accounts Payable
Smart Accounts Payable Pays Suppliers Faster and Wins Leverage
January 08, 2026

When suppliers know payments will arrive on time and exceptions will be resolved swiftly, trust grows. The reason? It’s because, historically, the accounts payable (AP) function for many enterprise buyers has been riddled with inefficiencies ranging from segregation of duties to manual reviews and after-the-fact...

Accounts Payable
AI Turns Accounts Payable Into a Strategic Control Point
December 30, 2025

The corporate back office is undergoing a renovation, and accounts payable is at its center. For decades, AP has lived in the shadows of corporate finance. Its success was necessary, unglamorous and relentlessly operational, measured in invoices processed, checks mailed, and exceptions resolved with minimal...

Accounts Payable
Virtual Cards Challenge the ‘Cost of Doing Business’
November 06, 2025

Accounts payable (AP) has spent much of its history buried deep in the back office, with staff consigned to the tedium of typing invoices, auditing purchase orders, and cutting checks. PYMNTS Intelligence data in the September 2025 Accounts Payable Tracker® Series found that more than two-thirds...

Accounts Payable
Acumatica Embeds BILL’s AP Automation Into Cloud ERP
October 22, 2025

U.S. Acumatica customers can now manage and pay bills within their enterprise resource planning system. They can do this with the help of BILL’s accounts payable automation. This capability comes from a new strategic partnership. Acumatica now embeds BILL’s AP automation into its Cloud ERP,...