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Positive pay files from accounts payable, automated
Positive pay protects a city's bank account from altered and counterfeit checks, but only if the issued-check file reaches the bank every day. How to automate it from the ERP, and what to check.
Read article →SFTP is not dead: bank files and billing exports
Banks, lockbox processors and billing vendors still deliver files over SFTP. Here is how to read them safely, check every row, and stop someone from re-keying payments.
Read article →New hires from HR to payroll without retyping
When HR hires someone, payroll, finance and IT each need to know. How to send new hires from an HR system such as NEOGOV to the ERP and to IT's request queue, with personal data handled carefully.
Read article →Posting online payment files to utility billing automatically
Payment vendors such as Paymentus and InvoiceCloud send billers a daily file. How to read it, check each account, post good payments and route the rest, without anyone opening a spreadsheet.
Read article →A daily balance check between utility billing and the general ledger
Utility payments and the cash receipts entry in the ERP should agree every day. How to automate that check, what to match on, how to handle rounding and timing, and what to send to finance.
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