Andrew Bartolini, Author at Payables Place

Business Travel Galore and Explaining Early Payment Discounts: What You May Have Missed

By Andrew Bartolini December 26, 2014NewsNo Comments

Today occupies an interesting place in modern culture. Boxing Day, as today is called in many nations of the former British Empire, is a secular holiday when servants and tradespeople would receive…

Seasons Greetings!

By Andrew Bartolini December 25, 2014OtherNo Comments

Another year will soon be in the books and 2015 is going start with a bang! (more on that in January)! Until then, we want to extend a warm holiday…

Payables News Weekly: EU Commercial Cards and Bitcoin in China

By Andrew Bartolini December 23, 2014NewsNo Comments

We’re two days away from Christmas, but that doesn’t mean the speed of business slows down. The accounts payable world last week enjoyed several new developments, as you’ll see below.…

An Early Payment Discount Example to Sink Your Teeth Into

By Andrew Bartolini December 19, 2014Best Practices, TechnologyNo Comments

Enterprises around the world want to maximize working capital for a variety of reasons, not least of which includes freeing up cash from operations in order to hire new employees,…

Payables News Weekly: Iron Mountain Puts in Takeover Bid, AmEx Launches New Card in India

By Andrew Bartolini December 16, 2014NewsNo Comments

We're getting into the final weeks of 2014, with only 15 days left before the start of the new year and nine days until Christmas. This doesn't mean the news…

ePayments and Marketing Spend: What You May Have Missed

By Andrew Bartolini December 12, 2014NewsNo Comments

As December winds down, some enterprises are finalizing their finances and working through budgets for 2015, while others prepare to close down for the week and a half between Christmas Eve and…

Payables News Weekly: Concur Acquisition Closes, MasterCard Takes on Bitcoin, and More

By Andrew Bartolini December 9, 2014NewsNo Comments

The worldwide economic situation became more interesting last week. The United States enjoyed a barn-burner of a jobs report on Friday morning—312,000 jobs were created in November, while the unemployment…

Five Important Advantages of Purchasing Cards

By Andrew Bartolini December 8, 2014Best Practices, Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

Purchasing cards (“p-cards”) have been around long enough to become a ubiquitous facet of a majority of enterprises. Generally strong when it comes to high-volume, low-dollar-value transactions and also utilized…

What is a Purchasing Card?

By Andrew Bartolini December 5, 2014Best Practices, TechnologyNo Comments

No matter the size of the enterprise, the accounts payable team tends to be deluged with paper. Mostly in the form of invoices and/or paper checks sent to suppliers. In…

6 Steps to Effective Supplier Onboarding with Virtual Payment Cards

By Andrew Bartolini December 3, 2014Best Practices, TechnologyNo Comments

Technology implementations are never easy. There could be unforeseen integration issues with back-end systems or perhaps more customization is required than originally thought. In the P2P world, one of the…