Accounts Payable news and trends

AP Automation and Virtual Cards Shine This Week in B2B
B2B Payments // May 09, 2024

The B2B landscape is responsible for around $125 trillion of annual money movement. And those B2B payments are working overtime in the background to power much of the world’s economy. But even two decades and a handful of years into the 21st century, much of that...

Digital Payments Help Construction Firms Overcome Manual Misery
Digital Payments // May 09, 2024

The construction industry is a critical one, but it has a giant problem: late payments. In a sector where cash flow couldn’t be more important to firms’ survival, slow and delayed payments in the construction space cost businesses $273 billion in 2023 — representing nearly 14% of total construction costs, up from...

Corpay Streamlined Its Name, Sets Eyes on Streamlining Corporate Payments 
Earnings // May 08, 2024

Keeping it simple can often pay off in spades down the line.  That’s the tack that the company formerly known as FLEETCOR Technologies hewed to this March when rebranding to a cleaner, simpler “Corpay.” But the company name isn’t the only thing that Corpay is streamlining.  During its first...

TranscendAP Launches as New AP Automation Company
Accounts Payable // May 08, 2024

TranscendAP, which has been a business unit of Optima Global Solutions since 2018, is now operating as a newly formed company. The firm was launched by Optima Global Solutions and TranscendAP co-founder and CEO Jeff Weinstein to focus on delivering artificial intelligence (AI)-powered accounts payable (AP) automation solutions to...

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Digital Payments Help Construction Firms Overcome Manual Misery

May 09, 2024
The construction industry is a critical one, but it has a giant problem: late payments. In a sector where cash flow couldn’t be more important to firms’ survival, slow and delayed payments in the construction space cost businesses $273 billion in 2023 — representing nearly 14% of total construction costs, up from 12% in 2022. Partly to blame is the construction sector’s […]

Virtual Cards Close Middle-Market Cash Flow ‘Unpredictability Gap’

May 07, 2024
Virtual cards are at a tipping point. That’s the sentiment expressed by several finance leaders in the B2B space, as the current environment of stubborn inflation and strict access to...

Boost CEO: Cleaning Up Manual Payments Drives Business Certainty

April 30, 2024
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. That quote, from Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War,” dates to the fifth century B.C. But it is just as relevant today, as businesses around...

HubSpot and Stripe Optimize Digital Payments for Small Businesses

April 24, 2024
Small businesses don’t want embracing modern technology to be a big, technical lift. After all, these Main Street-style companies are increasingly busy building out their growth plans and managing a...

Quick Reads
TranscendAP Launches as New AP Automation Company

May 08, 2024
TranscendAP, which has been a business unit of Optima Global Solutions since 2018, is now operating as a newly formed company. The firm was launched by Optima Global Solutions and TranscendAP co-founder and CEO Jeff Weinstein to focus on delivering artificial intelligence (AI)-powered accounts payable (AP) automation solutions to growing enterprises, TranscendAP said in a Wednesday (May 8) press release. […]

Basware Acquires AP Matching to Enhance Automation Offering

May 08, 2024
Basware expanded its market offering by acquiring AP Matching. The acquisition will add AP Matching’s cloud-based solutions for managing invoices and reconciling statements to Basware’s accounts payable (AP) automation and invoice processing capabilities, the...

Paymerang and Harris ERP Deliver AP Automation for Local Governments

May 07, 2024
Paymerang and Harris ERP have partnered to provide advanced invoice and payment automation solutions to local governments.  With this collaboration, Paymerang’s accounts payable (AP) automation tools will be delivered to hundreds of local governments...

Unimarket Introduces ‘AP Payments as a Service’ for US Customers

May 01, 2024
Unimarket has introduced its fully managed accounts payable (AP) payments service, Unimarket Payments, to the United States. This service, which optimizes, monetizes and secures the entire payment life cycle, is now available to...