Five reasons to automate your accounts payable

If your office is still relying on paper-based processes,  it increases the risk of errors and slows down processing. When your processing time is slow, it leads to vendors who aren’t happy and late invoices. 

Here are five benefits of automating accounts payable:

1. Savings and Improved ROI
When you automate your AP process, you’ll be able to cut down on processing times, and the more you automate, the greater the ROI you’re going to see. Payment automation cuts down costs associated with manual processing.

2. Reduced Errors
Invoices are inherently prone to errors. If a supplier sends an invoice by mail and then a follow-up email, the invoice can get paid twice. Errors can raise the cost of doing business, impact your cash flow, and negatively affect relationships with vendors.

3. Facilitates Remote Work Environments
The modern work environment is often hybrid, and there are many benefits of hybrid work from an employer and employee perspective, such as the fact that you can tap into better talent, and employees have more flexibility.

When you have remote workers in any capacity, it becomes a necessity to use automation and digital solutions.

4. Increased Visibility
You have invoices coming from different locations and payments that need to be made to suppliers operating in varying locations as well.
You need to be able to keep track of everything. Automation provides visibility.

5. Improved Cash Flow Management
When you use automation in the form of AP software, your accounting team and management will have more command over your cash flow. This opens up opportunities to manage cash to your advantage.

With NetSymm, your customers can pay invoices online. Contact us today to see a demo.