How to Improve Invoice Delivery and Tracking in Supplier Portals
For B2B finance teams, there’s a special kind of frustration that comes with supplier portals. You’ve created the perfect invoice, but then comes the hard part: navigating the labyrinth of Coupa, SAP Ariba, Oracle iSupplier, and dozens of other platforms – each with their own peculiar requirements, interfaces, and approval workflows. If you’ve ever spent […]
The Rise of Machine Customers in B2B Payments
Your smart home adjusts its temperature before you wake up. Your car navigates through traffic while suggesting faster routes. Your phone predicts what you’ll type next. Autonomous systems are reshaping our world – except, surprisingly, in one critical area: how businesses pay each other. The contrast is striking. While consumers tap their phones to instantly […]
From Chaos to Clarity: How Automating Supplier Invoicing Improves Compliance and Accuracy
Every growing business hits that painful tipping point: the day when manual invoice processing stops being merely annoying and starts actively dragging your company down. What once worked with a handful of supplier portals becomes an impossible headache as invoice volumes multiply. Finance teams find themselves drowning in paperwork, chasing invoicing approvals, and battling preventable […]
Managing Vendor Portals for Improved Cash Flow
The champagne corks pop as your sales team closes a major deal. High-fives all around, celebrations on Slack, and another win in the books. Fast forward three months: your finance team is still chasing payment, the invoice is stuck somewhere in the customer’s system, and that victory now feels hollow. This disconnect isn’t just frustrating […]
Top Reasons Your Portal Invoices Are Rejected (And How to Handle Them)
Managing accounts receivable today means dealing with a complex web of customer portals. When invoices get rejected, it’s not just a minor inconvenience – it’s a direct hit to your cash flow and a drain on your AR team’s resources. At Monto, we have a unique vantage point: we have a birds eye view across […]
Gaining AR Transparency Through Automation
Something’s broken in how we handle accounts receivable. Not the obvious things – late payments, cash flow issues, data entry errors (all of which we’ve written about here!). The real problem is that when payments get stuck, we can’t see why. This is where AR automation for portals comes in. Before we get into how […]
Growth Strategies for AR Automation in 2025
Finance departments face unprecedented challenges in 2025. Companies expand into new markets at breakneck speed, implement increasingly complex pricing models, and juggle an ever-growing array of payment methods. Meanwhile, Accounts Receivable (AR) processes often struggle to keep pace with these changes, creating a bottleneck that constrains growth potential. AR automation has transformed from a simple […]
Build vs Buy: The Complete Guide to Multi-Portal AR Automation
Every finance leader reaches this moment: staring at a whiteboard covered in portal logins, watching their team juggle dozens of customer payment systems, and thinking, “There has to be a better way.” That’s when the question inevitably arises: should we build our own multi-portal AR automation solution, or invest in an existing platform? It’s a […]
5 Supplier Portal Solutions to Use Before Automation
Before jumping into automation, most AR teams need supplier portal solutions they can implement today. Managing multiple customer portals – each with unique rules, logins, and requirements – is a daily challenge that can’t wait. The good news? Small improvements in how you handle portals today can significantly impact your finance operations. Below, we’ll walk […]
The Evolution of Getting Paid: Understanding AR Automation for Portals
Remember when getting paid was simple? A customer received an invoice, wrote a check, and mailed it back. Then came electronic payments, which promised even greater simplicity. But something unexpected happened along the way: the rise of payment portals. What started as a few enterprise customers requiring portal submissions has become the standard way of […]
