PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

When it comes to invoicing, micromanagement stands in the way of corporate progress, and is the false light at the end of the tunnel. Nowhere is that more apparent than when the CEO or other executive in charge of approving transactions examines every invoice, whether in paper form crossing their desk or through emailed PDFs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

In the March 2020 Innovating B2B Retail Payments Playbook: Optimizing Payment Solutions For Business Customers edition, a PYMNTS and MSTS collaboration, we’re reminded that typical B2B invoices take over 14 days to process, and the more people involved the longer it takes. In fact, B2C has been out in front on this one much more.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

The following Deep Dive explores the mobile disbursements landscape, the factors influencing increased demand for B2B and business-t0-consumer (B2C) mobile disbursements and the roadblocks standing in the way of widespread adoption. Mobile disbursements are becoming critical for both B2B and B2C companies.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2016

According to new data from PitchBook and reports from Reuters on Thursday (April 14), B2B startups are receiving venture capital at impressive rates, with growth in VC investments surpassing that of B2C startups. Invoice financing has achieved new popularity among SMEs as their large corporate buyers stretch out payment terms.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

BlueVine is looking to expand its financing services beyond factoring and has taken a step away from invoice financing with the launch of Flex Credit. This platform expansion will continue to fuel that growth by allowing us to serve both B2B and B2C businesses.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Everlink, FINTAINIUM Team Up To Offer Real-Time B2B, B2C Payments. Everlink Payment Services is teaming with workflow solutions provider FINTAINIUM to offer B2B and B2C payments in real time, leveraging the ISO 20022 global standard, according to a press release. They can also assess ongoing credit quality.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

With the B2B eCommerce market towering over B2C’s in terms of transaction value — Forrester Research estimates the U.S. “The buyer needs to go to their bank and type in their IBAN invoice number, and sellers are unsure if they are going to actually receive money,” he said. And that will be complex to reconcile.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

Finacle TradeConnect is available for use with bill collection, letters of credit, open account for trade, C2C transactions for trade, B2C transactions for trade, purchase order financing and invoice financing, the press release notes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

That's especially true, he told PYMNTS , when it comes to capturing data from purchase orders and invoices to accelerate document processing and reconciliation. There is also the rise of "pay-one, pay-all invoices," which sees businesses able to batch together outstanding invoices and pay them all at once to save time and money.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

As a result, he predicted that the entrenchment of faster payments will be a linear progression that moves from consumer-to-consumer (C2C) to consumer-to-business (C2B), then to business-to-consumer (B2C) to business-to-business (B2B). So, from the beginning, start with the individual consumer. The Low-Hanging Fruit.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

Being able to track the flow of funds and correctly auto-post those funds to an invoice-level based accounts receivable (AR) system, said Diegelman, can be difficult. As Diegelman noted, there is a world of improvements, upgrades and innovations available today that weren’t possible even a decade ago.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Most of the examples we know of today are on the B2C side. That’s no surprise, given the pace of innovation in B2C versus B2B payments over the years. Virtually all cloud-based subscription services use some form of embedded finance. There is no separate payment motion involved to utilize the service.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In a press release, Entryless said businesses using this integration will be able to send bills and purchase invoices in any format to Entryless, which will then be captured in image form by Entryless. At Entryless, our mission is to make business-to-business payments simpler and faster than B2C credit card payments are today.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

While the business-to-consumer (B2C) eCommerce boom has arguably already occurred, the global pandemic is introducing a second wave of digital commerce adoption. But this isn't a trend reserved for the B2C space anymore. But this isn't a trend reserved for the B2C space anymore. Tailoring For Unique Needs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Accounts payable (AP) automation technology has hit the ground running, with solutions designed to accelerate invoice processing, optimize payment strategies and promote digital adoption. That’s not to say that small- to medium-sized business (SMB) invoice payment challenges are any easier to overcome. The result?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Connected to Adflex’s payment platform, suppliers can “send a payment link via email or SMS,” enabling buyers, in turn, “to settle invoices quickly and securely from any geography, encouraging timely reconciliation and reducing cash flow problems caused by late payments,” Bermingham wrote.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

It’s not that automating invoice generation, banishing checks, automating the cash application process and systematically removing all the manual touches from accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) workflows weren’t unknown concepts among chief financial officers (CFOs) and treasury departments at the time. “The

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

While B2B eCommerce is looking toward its B2C cousin to enhance buyer and seller experiences, pricing strategies are far different than in the consumer world thanks to the common practice of custom pricing based on customer, units purchased, and even external factors like supply chain risks and trade regulations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Yet the current trade credit landscape comes with significant challenges, especially for the supplier, with Floate pointing to the requirement for vendors to take on the financial risk until after an invoice is actually paid. New Payment Models Emerging.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Unlike B2C eCommerce, B2B transactions require heightened visibility within supply chains — the ability to move large sums of money at set times, generation and management of invoices, purchase orders, payment contracts and more. Betting On Blockchain. Dibachi explained that the company deploys the technology in three key ways.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Credit scoring a new customer provides visibility into the probability that the buyer will actually pay an invoice upon receipt of goods or services. That's one thing where B2C selling merchants can learn from B2B selling merchants. Credit checks are also instrumental to making a sale.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

To help firms retrieve funds from past-due invoices, NexaCollect has rolled out a B2B arm that provides information about commercial debt collection, according to an announcement. The company rolled out a collection agency directory in January of this year that was mostly composed of firms that provide business-to-consumer (B2C) recovery.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

This isn’t merely an issue for the B2C world, however. In accounts payable and accounts receivable, rising fraud mitigation efforts may also lead to more false positives, leading to declined commercial card transactions, misplaced suspicion between buyers and suppliers, delays in invoice processing and more.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

Yet as the B2B commerce industry has seen in recent years, while B2C can offer a valuable, albeit general, idea of how to approach digitization, there are unique hurdles that both buyers and suppliers need to address. Other analysts, however, say it’s significantly lower, particularly when compared to the B2C landscape.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

“But when you think about this idea that you would borrow a dollar and turn around and lend that exact same dollar to your customer for free — which is what an invoice is — doesn’t makes sense to me,” Hodgson continued. Suppliers get paid sooner, with 90 percent of the invoice paid via ACH to the supplier’s account.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2018

And all of this, Rohde told Webster, came about because of a single observation made about four years ago, when a lot of businesses were shopping on Amazon’s B2C marketplace. As a simple example, he said, B2C customers want all their packages delivered at the same speed: fast.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

In terms of payments technology and alternative lending, B2C and B2B may be respectively seen as digital versions of the hare and tortoise. This is a major gap in a market that is three times the size of B2C,” he told Webster. Forrester Research found that, in the U.S. alone, B2B eCommerce transactions will reach $1.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Paper-based payment methods such as checks and cash are awkward and cumbersome in either business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions. Such legacy payment methods are usually tied to paper-based invoices and manual tracking and reconciliation procedures, which impede payments from being processed in a timely manner.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Yet, as Tony Horling, founder and CEO of InTu Mobility , recently told PYMNTS, mPOS technologies designed for business-to-consumer (B2C) payments won’t cut it for multibillion-dollar enterprises that need to accept B2B payments in the field. What B2B Businesses Need. Benefits For Payers.

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Bramasol

MARCH 4, 2022

In recent years, XaaS has proliferated into an ever-widening range of B2B and B2C business models across the Digital Solutions Economy. As shown below, these include Customer Engagement, Order Creation & Management, Delivery & Fulfillment, Billing & Invoicing, Payments & Collections, and Revenue Compliance.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

According to 3dcart, net terms are used in 80 percent of B2B transactions allowing companies to wait 30 or 60 days to pay for goods after being invoiced. ” The 3dcart platform also supports B2C payment technologies including Paypal, Stripe and Square. . A press release issued Friday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

Now, with Gotransverse, he intends to bring that expertise to other areas, including B2B and B2C transactions — and do so in ways that marry the increasing consumer demands for seamless payments with the advantages that data (some of it real time) can bring to recurring billing. It means selling on an international basis,” he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The first and oldest writings of human civilization were not poems or prayers: they were invoices. Unlike simpler more streamlined business-to-consumer (B2C) purchasing, B2B sellers still ship goods or extend services on the promise of being paid later on an unspecified date, usually months.

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CFO News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

​​These firms were concealing actual revenues, selling without invoice and underreporting tax liability, he added. An official release said searches were conducted on November 16 at seven premises to keep a check on possible evasion of Goods and Service Tax (GST) by 'Business to Consumer (B2C)' sector entities in the state.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

Latin America is the world’s leader in government electronic invoice mandates, as jurisdictions there address issues like invoice fraud and a lack of transparency in government procurement — efforts that proponents of these mandates say can positively influence the private sector.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

While Telr, based in Singapore and India, provides front-office B2C payment solutions to its business customers, the company has also grown a presence in the back-office, with cash management and logistics solutions linked into its overall offering. Cash Management. Based in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

“It’s muscle memory,” she said of the ongoing use of the paper invoice. The friction for customers of legacy collections tools is obvious: an experience of a cumbersome process of waiting for an invoice to arrive in the mail, and logging online or calling in to manually enter credit card data. Why Friction Persists.

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