Top 5 Accounts Payable Processes to Automate
The main responsibility of accounts payable (AP) departments is to ensure all valid invoices from vendors are approved, processed, and paid.
The main responsibility of accounts payable (AP) departments is to ensure all valid invoices from vendors are approved, processed, and paid.
In a previous post, we took you through a step-by-step process for automating your accounts payable (AP) workflows. One of the steps is to choose software that best meets your AP department’s needs. Today, we’d be showing you the exact, final things to consider before making your choice of workflow automation software.
We’ve already given you 15 reasons why you should automate your accounts payable (AP) processes. It saves time, reduces costs, leaves your employees free to do the more-pressing tasks they need to tend to, and so on.
Accounts payable invoice processing may not be the most exciting task in the world, but it remains an essential one for every organization that wants to pay its vendors.
If you make regular purchases to facilitate running your business, chances are you have some vendors you have to pay.
You need an invoice processing system to pay your vendors efficiently.
“Invoice processing system” refers to everything that goes into the processing of invoices — the human input, the tools, and the process that takes you from capture to payment.