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One of the more important jobs of the accounts payable professional is keeping up with what is happening in the industry at large. This is critical for a few reasons, including skills development and the hunt for new technologies, but is sometimes difficult to do. That is why, each week, the team at Payables Place [...]

Business travel is a growing concern for the modern enterprise. Whether it’s saving on the cost of airline tickets, or trying to keep traveling employees in compliance with corporate policies, managing business travel expenses can be a massive headache. That’s why the corporate travel card can be so valuable to the typical enterprise. Read on [...]

[Editor’s Note: It’s almost 2015 and, to cap off 2014 in style, Payables Place will run five of the best posts from the 2014 archives. We continue our “Best of” series today with our look into virtual payment cards that ran on October 29.] It’s a safe bet that commercial cards are, if not common knowledge, then [...]

It’s a safe bet that commercial cards are, if not common knowledge, then at least easily recognizable in the business world. The venerable purchasing card (p-card) has existed since the 1980s, with the corporate travel card in use since 1936, and the ONE card arriving a little over 20 years ago. One of the newest [...]

For more than 70 years, enterprises of all sizes have used commercial payment cards to purchase everything from airline tickets to office supplies. This flexibility has led solution providers to launch numerous card products in the intervening decades. Today, there are cards to manage corporate travel, cards for purchasing, fleet cards for transportation, ghost cards [...]