The Other Half of the Cash Cycle
Accounts receivable automation has lagged AP by five to seven years in real adoption. Not because the technology wasn’t available but because the problem is genuinely harder.
AP has a clean shape. There’s a document (the invoice), a system that owns the truth (the ERP), and an unambiguous definition of done (payment posted). AR has none of that tidiness. Remittance data arrives in a dozen formats and rarely matches cleanly. Invoices get disputed.
