The Netsend Blog
The latest news and views in the world of e-invoicing/e-billing and document distribution technology.
Minimising Credit Risks and Getting Paid on Time (in a Pandemic)
The global coronavirus pandemic has compounded an already precarious global financial situation. Without wanting to dwell too much on the impending recession, depression even, the writing has been on the wall for some time… long distant from a time when Corona was...
Automatically Upload Invoices to AP Invoicing Portals
Are you finding excessive time and effort spent loading invoices to your customers’ invoicing portals, or government mandated portals (such as Italy’s SdI)? This need to manually upload, or re-key, invoices into customers’ accounts payable, or government mandated,...
PEPPOL in 2020 – What You Need to Know
PEPPOL (Pan European Public Procurement On-Line) has been gaining ground as the standard framework for electronic document exchange (primarily e-invoicing) for the public sector across Europe and beyond. As a widely-supported framework, PEPPOL complies with the...
Sending E-invoices with an ERP System
There’s no easy way to say this, ERP systems may be great for planning resources in an enterprise, but they are not typically designed to work as e-invoicing platforms. That’s not to say they can’t send electronic invoices, but the limitations on what can be sent, and...
How to Beat Postal Delays in a Pandemic
Postal delays appear to be yet another unpleasant characteristic of 2020. The vast majority of these delays can be attributed to process changes that have resulted from precautions to limit the spread of the coronavirus, such as social distancing. It’s not as if...
Where, Why, and How EDI Invoicing and e-Invoicing Go Wrong (and How to Fix It)
Electronic invoicing is often pitched as the panacea for invoice delivery challenges in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. On the face of it, this makes sense. Electronic delivery avoids the need to have staff manually print documents, stuff envelopes, and run the...
Automated Invoicing – Improving Accounts Receivable Efficiency
Automated invoicing, or invoicing automation, is gaining popularity as businesses look for ways to free up accounts receivable staff to meet the challenges of a post-coronavirus world. Automation reaches every part of a modern business. It is an inherent benefit of...
Is Blockchain Still Relevant for Order-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay?
Blockchain technology continues to make quite a lot of progress with many business implementations in supply chain, payment, digital asset, and identity management. This is largely due to B2B open source platforms like Ethereum or Hyperledger Fabric that are becoming...
Take Control of your Credit Control
Guest post by Declan Flood, the Credit Coach and Chief Executive of International Credit Management Training. Declan provides credit management education, and training to a broad range of businesses. Anyone not familiar with credit control or credit management may...
Leveraging e-Invoicing to Improve Cash Flow While Building Business Resilience
Being part of Corcentric means that we are now sharing the 15+ years of experience Netsend has in the e-billing/e-invoicing space with an even wider audience. Lee Allen, Managing Director at Netsend, and Senior Vice President of Order-to-Cash for EMEA at Corcentric,...
How Legacy Invoicing Processes Slow a Supplier’s Cash Flow
Cash flow is literally the lifeblood of any business; anything that slows down that flow will have a deleterious effect on the organisation. This is true in the best of times but becomes an even greater problem when disruption occurs…and there are few situations more...
Netsend, a Corcentric Company
After a busy start to 2020, helping clients adapt billing processes to prevent impact from the coronavirus lockdown, we felt it was now appropriate to take stock and talk a little more about our exciting plans for the future. 2019 was a transformative year for...