Andrew Bartolini, Author at Payables Place

Travel & Expense and Virtual Payment Cards, Ahoy: What You May Have Missed on Payables Place

By Andrew Bartolini October 31, 2014NewsNo Comments

Happy Halloween! Did you know that the New York Halloween Parade in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village is the only major night-time parade in the United States? It also turns 40 years…

What are Virtual Payment Cards?

By Andrew Bartolini October 29, 2014Best Practices, Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

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…

Which Commercial Card is Right for You?

By Andrew Bartolini October 27, 2014Process, Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

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…

3 Benefits of Virtual Payment Cards You Might Not Know

By Andrew Bartolini October 22, 2014TechnologyNo Comments

Commercial cards are an established fact of business life, with all the varieties credit card issuers provide. There are fleet cards, purchasing cards, travel cards, ONE cards, meetings cards, and…

Ariba Pay, Compliance, and Complex Spend: The Past Two Weeks of Payables Analysis

By Andrew Bartolini October 17, 2014News, SolutionsNo Comments

We covered a lot of ground on Payables Place in the past two weeks; from travel and expense management goals, through the CFO’s viewpoint on the travel and expense market,…

Basware Pay Offers New Method to Counteract Late Payments

By Andrew Bartolini October 8, 2014Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

For many years, payment systems existed as an afterthought for other ePayables (accounts payable automation) systems. That all changed in the last few years, with more and more AP-driven RFPs…

Esker Wants to Take Over the Procure-to-Pay World

By Andrew Bartolini October 6, 2014Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

The disconnected nature of many enterprise systems is a persistent challenge in the procure-to-pay (P2P) process automation world. Accounts payable runs through one system or maybe a backend ERP server…

AribaPay Looks to Simplify, Improve B2B ePayments

By Andrew Bartolini October 3, 2014Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

It’s an acknowledged fact that ePayments are more efficient, faster, and less prone to fraud than paper checks. However, as we’ve said numerous times, one of the biggest problems with…

Softpro Acquisition Latest Bright Star in Kofax Constellation

By Andrew Bartolini September 24, 2014News, SolutionsNo Comments

In its third acquisition in less than two years, Kofax (NASDAQ: KFX; LSE: KFX) announced on September 2 that it had purchased Softpro GmbH, a provider of eSignature verification software, for $34.7…

Traxpay Raises $15 Million Series B Funding; Inks MasterCard Partnership

By Andrew Bartolini September 23, 2014News, Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

B2B ePayments provider Traxpay announced today the close of a $15 million Series B funding round. The reportedly oversubscribed round included Software AG and banking powerhouse Commerzbank; early investors also…