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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…

3 Ways Suppliers Benefit from Virtual Payment Cards

By Andrew Bartolini November 5, 2014Best Practices, Process, SolutionsNo Comments

The benefits that virtual payment cards provide to buyers are expressed quite well in vendor marketing materials, as well as in several previous articles here at Payables Place. What’s not…

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…

ePayables Solution Spotlight – PAYVE from American Express

By Andrew Bartolini February 4, 2013Research, TechnologyNo Comments

Continuing with Ardent Partners’ ePayables Solution Spotlight series, here is the latest one that focuses on the ePayment market and a solution from American Express – PAYVE (access the full…

American Express Aims to PAYVE ® the Path to Electronic Payments

By Andrew Bartolini July 6, 2012NewsNo Comments

Introducing PAYVE®, a new digital payment service from American Express Earlier this year, I wrote a report that predicted the top ten things that will shape the AP market in…

AP’s New Motto – Not Broken, Needs Fixing

By Andrew Bartolini June 22, 2012ResearchNo Comments

Last month, Ardent Partners completed its annual AP focused market research report – ePayables 2012: The State of The AP Market. This extensive piece of research, which took up most…