Invoice Processing for QuickBooks
We discuss why automated invoice processing is needed for QuickBooks. QuickBooks is a formidable accounting software that is helping companies keep a check on their finances. But the initiation of accounting operations in QuickBooks, as with most business processes, begins with data entry. The right AP data entry to QuickBooks elevates its efficiency and helps companies build accounting best practices. Accessing this data by traditional, manual effort is time-consuming, laborious, error-prone, and inefficient. By automating AP invoice processing using, say, an intelligent process automation system, companies will not only benefit from a seamless, hands-free, end-to-end invoice processing chain but also ensure accelerated and accurate AP data availability to QuickBooks.
Added operating and labor costs mean that even when your business is growing, you may not see the profits immediately. Growing businesses have to deal with increasing volumes of vendor invoices, and with that, the associated operating and labor costs. A company’s standing in the marketplace is determined not just by the quality of its products and services but also by the relationships it forges and maintains with the various stakeholders including customers, vendors, and partners. In the case of vendors, this relationship is strengthened by building trust, which means making payments on time.
But manual invoice processing is time-consuming, laborious, and costly. Manual data entry is error-prone, resulting in delays and inefficiencies along the invoice processing chain. For growing businesses, engaging in outdated AP practices can prove costly in the long-run, derailing the trust they can build with new vendors but also slowing down the progress they can make, given the new opportunities.
To accelerate accounts payable operations and enable faster payments to vendors, what you need is efficiency in invoice processing.
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Adding to the manpower to manage the increasing workloads and invoicing paperwork only adds to the labor costs. Moreover, many companies indulging in manual paperwork to manage mission critical processes end up having their talented AP staff resort to mundane, repetitive data entry work. This is not very productive as manual labor, for one, introduces errors along the invoice processing chain. Secondly, employee morale can take a hit when your talented AP workers are subjected to mundane, mindless paper pushing on a daily basis, rather than being engaged in more meaningful, strategic, growth-oriented tasks.
Manual invoice processing also causes payment delays, and with that, a piling up of debt. That means mismanagement of corporate funds and poor cash flows. And this is not confined to just big corporations or businesses with a large influx of vendor paperwork everyday. Small and mid-sized businesses also pay heavily for accounts payable inefficiencies. The reason being, accounts payable and invoice processing are heavy document-and-labor-intensive processes —
Processing a single invoice involves a lot of accompanying steps, not to mention the additional corrections and reprocessing work that needs to be done in case a single data entry goes wrong.
A good way to lower the overheads, delays, inefficiencies, and costs of manual accounts payable would be by automating invoice processing. An invoice processing software, embedded with intelligent automation, can help replace manual effort in processing the hundreds of invoices a company receives per day, but without the inefficiencies and costs associated with manual effort.
The accounts payable team handles invoice processing. The AP team receives and sorts AP documents, performs data entry, validates, verifies, and approves or rejects the payment of an invoice, after which, the transaction details are archived and corresponding reports prepared and entered into the company’s ERP system or related business application. To ensure accurate and timely payments to vendors, a lot of data validation work is required including finding out if the invoices match the purchase orders and are in accordance with the payment terms agreed with the vendors. Here, invoice workflow efficiency is of utmost importance as any discrepancies or delays in correctly processing, validating, and approving an invoice could delay payments to vendors, and lower the trust and chances of doing repeat business with them.
Companies also run the risk of incurring high reprocessing costs as well as late payment fees. Accelerated invoice processing ensures accelerated payables, debt reconciliations, and payments. Companies adhering to the payment terms and making payments on time can also benefit from some early payment discounts advertised by vendors. In fact, accelerated invoice processing has a lot of cumulative benefits, and ensures a company’s good standing in the marketplace in terms of timely debt reconciliations, vendor trust, and healthy cash flows.
Invoice processing software, embedded with intelligent process automation, helps accelerate payables.
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