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Time is money, but how many of us actually live by that mantra? If your business hasn’t yet implemented invoice approval automation, you’re losing both time and money every day. In 2025, businesse…

AP OCR (Accounts Payable Optical Character Recognition) technology is improving invoice management for finance teams. By digitising and automating manual tasks, OCR streamlines workflows, saves time a…

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a solid piece of software for an SME that requires something comprehensive. The software offers many of the tools you’d want from business software: accounting and ledger, …

For over 20 years, I’ve navigated the challenges of being a supplier to larger companies. My first business was a TV and radio production company, complete with recording studios in central London. …

The 3-way matching process is a critical component of accounts payable that ensures financial accuracy and integrity within a business. It involves the reconciliation of three essential documents: the…

A Purchase Order (PO) System is essential for streamlining how your organization procures goods and services. By implementing the best PO system, you'll bring structure to your procurement process, en…

Accounts Payable security is never something you want to compromise on. A bad security incident can ruin an organisation through reputational damage, lost business, lawsuits and more. In the past deca…

Invoice processing software streamlines Accounts Payable processes, which include extracting, populating, and managing invoice data. By automating your invoice processing, you can speed up the proces…

Every industry has its own challenges. In construction, these come from decentralised bases of operation, staggering numbers of invoices, and the manpower required to process them—all of this crea…

The UK rolled out a new tax initiative in 2019, Making Tax Digital. Its goal: to hoist the tax system into the modern day. Increased efficiency, effectiveness and ease of use are being championed, lar…

The term "invoice scanning" refers to digitizing supplier invoices using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR is a technology that enables software to read machine-printed text from scanned images…

Every business could benefit from reducing operating costs and improving workflow and accounting visibility. But with so much to do, you can get a little behind on the things that matter. This include…