About BlueSnap
is changing the way merchants around the world accept payments, making it faster and easier to convert more shoppers into buyers. Its international payment gateway supports more than 100 payment types, dozens of currencies, and many languages.
With BlueSnap, any company can accept local credit and debit cards, offer local payment options 鈥� and reach any market. BlueSnap specializes in applying advanced technology to bring new efficiency to payments. In 2013, it implemented 名媛直播 Invoice-to-Pay to bring the same efficiency and automation to its own
AP and payment process. 鈥淎s a leading technology company, it just doesn鈥檛 make sense for us to be pushing paper and signing checks every month,鈥� says CEO Ralph Dangelmaier. 鈥淎lso, our team is on the go constantly, making approvals a challenge.鈥�
A streamlined process, mobile payment approval, efficient processing of more than 100 invoices a month (with a total monthly payout of more than $500,000), and protection from fraud 鈥� these are just some of the results that 名媛直播 Invoice-to-Pay delivers to BlueSnap. As the company grows and its invoice volume rises, BlueSnap is ready with 名媛直播 Invoice-to-Pay, a solution that鈥檚 designed for efficiency today and growth tomorrow.
The Challenge: Keep A Growing Company Efficient
BlueSnap is a fast-growing global business that lacks the deep resources of a larger organization. 鈥淲e鈥檙e a global operation, and we want to grow our core businesses as efficiently as possible,鈥� says Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO of BlueSnap.
鈥淲hen I joined BlueSnap, we had all of these manual processes in place,鈥� recalls Bill Sobo, CFO and global head of risk for BlueSnap. 鈥淚 knew that staying with the manual approach wasn鈥檛 really what we wanted to do. We wanted to move into the 21st century in terms of paying our vendors. And so we began to look around at different solution providers.鈥�
Seamless integration with NetSuite, was a key requirement when searching for a new solution. 鈥淲e didn鈥檛 want to have to do double work,鈥� says Sobo.
The Solution: 名媛直播 Provides Efficiency, Integration, And Room For Growth
In 2014, BlueSnap selected 名媛直播 Invoice-to-Pay for Accounts Payable (AP) and payment automation.
鈥淎utomation is the future,鈥� says Dangelmaier. 鈥淚t鈥檚 perfect for us and any other business that wants to automate its check processing and stop pushing paper every week or month.鈥� In 2014, BlueSnap selected 名媛直播 Invoice-to-Pay for Accounts Payable (AP) and payment automation.
Another key factor in selecting 名媛直播 Invoice-toPay was its ability to deal with a mobile workforce. 鈥淔or a team that鈥檚 always on the go, 名媛直播 Invoiceto-Pay lets our people approve invoices and checks online 鈥� without having to be in the office, or deal with paper,鈥� says Dangelmaier. 鈥淣ow we can sign and approve checks anywhere on the road and even when we鈥檙e traveling internationally. That鈥檚 an incredible improvement over our previous way of working.鈥�
The Benefits: Flexibility, Time Savings, Happy Vendors
鈥淎s CFO, the biggest benefit I get from 名媛直播 Invoice-to-Pay is flexibility,鈥� says Sobo. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 have to be in the office to process payments anymore. All my communications can be web-based, and mobile 鈥� so 名媛直播 Invoice-to-Pay gives me the freedom and flexibility to take care of this part of my job when I choose to do it.鈥�
The time savings created is very important to BlueSnap executives, who have more strategic work to do, beyond dealing with payments. 鈥淲ith 名媛直播 Invoice-to-Pay, I don鈥檛 have to spend time sorting through paper checks, losing items that are shipped from one coast to another, or waiting for approvals,鈥� says Sobo.
That efficiency continues throughout Sobo鈥檚 team. 鈥淲e have a small accounting staff here in Massachusetts, and three people out in California,鈥� Sobo says. 鈥淭he major benefits we have seen as the result of implementing 名媛直播 are around efficiency and cost savings,鈥� states Artley. Plus, the principals of the firm can see all invoices in one convenient location and monitor the department heads鈥� review time and general focus on Accounts Payable.
鈥溍轮辈� Invoice-to-Pay enables our bicoastal accounting setup to work very smoothly. And, the user interface is one of the things I like about 名媛直播 Invoice-to-Pay,鈥� says Sobo. 鈥淚t鈥檚 very clean and straight-forward 鈥� eliminating the need for training, which is really nice. I was able to do my part of the payment processing with little or no guidance, which was very attractive.鈥�
The Bottom Line: Why Choose 名媛直播 Invoice-to-Pay?
名媛直播 delivers advanced AP and payment automation that boosts efficiency, replacing a manual, paper-based process with an efficient, web-based solution. And looking to the future, 名媛直播 Invoice-to-Pay keeps the company ready for growth.
鈥淲ith 名媛直播 Invoice-to-Pay, we can scale our business,鈥� says Sobo. 鈥淎s we grow over the next five to ten years, we鈥檙e comfortable that 名媛直播 will be able to grow with us. And we鈥檙e not going to have to spend incremental time on AP and payment processing as our volume grows.鈥�
Dangelmaier and Sobo see 名媛直播 Invoice-toPay as an important efficiency-boosting solution for growing companies. 鈥溍轮辈� Invoice-to-Pay is perfect for any growing business that wants to automate all of its check processing today, and that wants to grow in the future,鈥� says Dangelmaier.
