A priority of the European Union’s A Digital Agenda for Europe – one of the EU’s Europe 2020’s flagship initiatives – is to encourage the move to e-invoicing. Why? Well, according to the EU, paperless processing is good for the world and adoption of electronic processing helps promote competitive economic activity. In fact the EU goes so far as to
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Companies who choose not to automate their travel and expense (T & E) processing could not only be missing out on potential savings but also losing the opportunity to cut down on travel and expense claim fraud – so says a PayStream Advisors‘ survey. Recent research from the financial process market authority shows that 36 percent of companies in the US
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In a recent report on European payment trends, the business information provider Dun and Bradstreet reveals that payment performance in the UK has improved over the past year – and identifies the increasing move to e-invoicing as a possible factor behind this change. This news comes as a welcome reversal of the trend that has been dogging British business for
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Documation is proud to announce the company’s support for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, a charity set up in 2006 to help conserve the bumblebee population and their habitats in the UK. The dramatic decline in the number of bees in the country and the potentially disastrous effect on the ecology that could result has recently hit the headlines: last month
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A new report from PayStream Advisors, Electronic Invoice Adoption Benchmark Report, publishes the results of a survey of over 300 Accounts Payable (AP) and Procurement professionals. There are some interesting statistics – including the fact that e-invoicing is definitely on the rise. But this comes as no surprise, as more and more organisations are starting to realise the benefits of
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The use of eForms is on the rise. Organisations are turning to their use more and more. Last month the Ministry of Justice announced that they were introducing crime eForms– that from 1 April 2013 they would no longer be accepting paper versions. UCAS, the organisation which manages applications to higher education courses in the UK, has been using eForms
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According to research, almost a quarter (23 percent) of companies pay duplicate invoices. Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, is so concerned at the amount of money lost by local councils through paying suppliers twice that at the end of last year, 2012, he made Tackle duplicate payments number 4 of 50 bullet points in a
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Spring is finally here – and usually that means it’s time for a ‘spring clean’, not only at home but in the office too. But even just thinking about clearing out the office can be daunting, not least due to the hundreds of papers that will need sorting – documents such as invoices, receipts, credit card statements, expense forms and
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The accounts receivable (AR) department is a crucial part of any business and the majority of the time they face similar problems as the accounts payable (AP) department, such as high costs in processing documents and delayed payments. Introducing an automated solution such as Documation’s Accounts Receivable solution, can be used in AR to streamline payment processing; as the solution
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We are pleased to announce that one of our key customer’s has upgraded to the latest version of our Enable platform – Enable 3.11. Enable is our core document management platform; it is a powerful modular solution designed and built by us specifically to automate document intensive business processes. For over 11 years the northern based integrated transport authority has
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