Accounts payable is one of the last remaining business processes that still relies heavily on paper...namely those still ubiquitous paper checks. The tasks of dealing with them—from printing to getting approvals to matching up with PO’s to mailing out—it’s all pretty labor intensive and time consuming.   

And when accounts payable operations have hiccups, you risk important relationships with vendors and your entire AP team is forced to transform into forensic accountants to fix the damage.  

Luckily, there's a much better way!

The Covid-19 pandemic has created a situation where most every business leader has renewed concern for how their organization would continue operations if some sort of major unforeseen event disrupted the regular flow of their business. 

We’ve been talking about the benefits of digital transformation for awhile now, and being able to run your business remotely is certainly one of those benefits, but people weren’t making that connection until now. The time has come.

The definitive science is a long way from being in, but from the pictures alone, it definitely appears that when people with office jobs do those jobs from home instead of commuting—the environment wins. Not only in America, but all over the world.  

Of course, we also have entire swaths of the economy that work in “non-essential” retail and service jobs that will hopefully be going back to work soon. But even with those folks getting back on the road, the impact would still be very significant if we were able to maintain universal work-from-home as the new normal. 

However, businesses exist to make money...not to become the torchbearer for environmental policy.