Why Accounts Receivable Automation

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Accelerated Cash Flow & Lower Days Sales Outstanding

Automated invoicing, reminders, and payment reconciliation help companies collect cash more quickly. Many organizations see 25–40% reductions in DSO, and invoices are often paid twice as fast compared to manual methods

Companies adopting AR automation often cut DSO by up to 40% and get paid 2× faster

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Cost Savings & Higher Productivity

By removing repetitive tasks, AR automation can cut processing effort nearly in half. This frees finance staff to concentrate on collections strategies and customer engagement instead of manual data entry.

Teams report 40–60% less time spent on routine AR tasks

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Reduced Bad Debt & Write-Offs

Intelligent monitoring of overdue accounts, proactive reminders, and consistent billing reduce write-offs and improve recovery rates, particularly for at-risk customers

Automated credit and collections processes can cut bad debt write-offs by 10–30%

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Real-Time Insights & Forecasting

Dashboards give CFOs and controllers live visibility into outstanding invoices and payment patterns. This focused view improves forecasting accuracy and working capital planning.

Finance leaders gain an extra 2–4 weeks of visibility into cash flow

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Better Customer Experience

Customers benefit from clear invoices, flexible online payment options, and fewer errors—leading to stronger relationships and fewer disputes.

Businesses report 60–80% fewer billing disputes

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Competitive Advantage

With less than 20% of businesses fully automating AR today, early adopters stand out with faster cash cycles and leaner operations.

Fewer than 1 in 5 businesses have fully automated AR workflows

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Built-In Compliance & Audit Readiness

Digital records and automated audit trails simplify compliance, reduce preparation time, and lower audit risk.

Automated audit trails cut compliance prep time by 50%

Why Accounts Receivable Automation

Manual accounts receivable (AR) processes—like spreadsheets, paper invoices, and delayed follow-ups—create bottlenecks that slow down payments and inflate days sales outstanding (DSO). AI-enabled AR automation replaces these manual steps with digital workflows that accelerate cash collection, cut costs, and improve accuracy.

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Benefits of AR Automation

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Accelerated Cash Flow & Lower Days Sales Outstanding

Automated invoicing, reminders, and payment reconciliation help companies collect cash more quickly. Many organizations see 25–40% reductions in DSO, and invoices are often paid twice as fast compared to manual methods

Companies adopting AR automation often cut DSO by up to 40% and get paid 2× faster

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Cost Savings & Higher Productivity

By removing repetitive tasks, AR automation can cut processing effort nearly in half. This frees finance staff to concentrate on collections strategies and customer engagement instead of manual data entry.

Teams report 40–60% less time spent on routine AR tasks

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Reduced Bad Debt & Write-Offs

Intelligent monitoring of overdue accounts, proactive reminders, and consistent billing reduce write-offs and improve recovery rates, particularly for at-risk customers

Automated credit and collections processes can cut bad debt write-offs by 10–30%

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Real-Time Insights & Forecasting

Dashboards give CFOs and controllers live visibility into outstanding invoices and payment patterns. This focused view improves forecasting accuracy and working capital planning.

Finance leaders gain an extra 2–4 weeks of visibility into cash flow

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Better Customer Experience

Customers benefit from clear invoices, flexible online payment options, and fewer errors—leading to stronger relationships and fewer disputes.

Businesses report 60–80% fewer billing disputes

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Competitive Advantage

With less than 20% of businesses fully automating AR today, early adopters stand out with faster cash cycles and leaner operations.

Fewer than 1 in 5 businesses have fully automated AR workflows

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Built-In Compliance & Audit Readiness

Built-In Compliance & Audit Readiness

Digital records and automated audit trails simplify compliance, reduce preparation time, and lower audit risk.

Automated audit trails cut compliance prep time by 50%

What is AR Automation?

AR automation is the use of software to digitize invoice creation and delivery, customer payment experiences, collections outreach, dispute/claim resolution, and payment reconciliation. A modern platform connects these steps end-to-end, often called invoice-to-cash or order-to-cash automation.

Core capabilities:

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E-invoicing & delivery

Generate compliant invoices and deliver via email, portal, EDI, or network.

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Payment acceptance:

Offer ACH, card, RTP, and bank transfer with auto-reconciliation.

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Customer payment portal

Self-service viewing, multi-invoice checkout, partial/scheduled payments, and in-portal messaging.

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Dispute & deduction management

Capture claims, attach proofs, collaborate, and resolve at line-item level.

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Cash application

Auto-match remittances to open items using AI/OCR and bank feeds.

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Credit & risk:

Centralize limits, automate reviews, and monitor exposure.

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Analytics

Real-time DSO, CEI, aging, promises-to-pay, and collector productivity.

Why Choose MetaViewer
for AR Automation

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Deep ERP integrations

Microsoft Dynamics 365 (Finance & Business Central), Dynamics GP, and Acumatica, and all other ERPs

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Invoice-to-cash in one place

Invoicing, collections, portal, and cash application.

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AI-assisted matching

Higher auto-match rates and fewer exceptions.

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Rapid time-to-value

Prebuilt connectors, best-practice playbooks, and expert onboarding.

Already using MetaViewer for AP?

Extend to AR to create a unified cash cycle with shared master data and one support team.

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Our Happy Clients

Our customers are our best advocates. Hear what they have to say about how MetaViewer’s accounts payable process automation solutions have benefited their AP teams.

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What Our Clients Say

"Fantastic Software with Fast ROI"

Web interface to handle documents in an efficient manner. Very fast and responsive interface allows to users to quickly pick up and become familiar with the system. The latest update enables documents to flow at a much faster (almost real-time) pace between steps, creating a smoother experience for the user. This system has been the best OCR/AP management tool I've come across. It is mostly modifiable as well, which enables us to implement the changes where needed.

Michael L. | Controller 1

“MetaViewer just made sense.”

It wasn’t painful. The training was solid, and MetaViewer just made sense.

Julie Vahlsing

"5 Star Service"

Our clerks love it. It's fewer clicks, fewer errors, and more time.

Eric Toomey | Dean Transportation

"Making life easier"

It completely changed our ability to stay organized with digital workflows instead of tracking down spreadsheets.

Susanna | OSEG

"ERP Transitions"

Getting in front of ERP transitions with automation made the shift easier.

Jim Larson

“AI doesn’t replace us."

AI doesn’t replace us. It gives us time back.

Susanna | OSEG

"Liberates your AP team"

MetaViewer doesn’t just automate—it liberates your AP team from chaos.

Eric Humes (Metafile Minutes)

"Save Time and Money"

We cut approval cycles down from days to hours. Sometimes minutes.

Eric Toomey (Dean Transportation)

"MetaViewer shows me everything"

I hardly use GP to look things up anymore. MetaViewer shows me everything.

Cathy Hannan (Internal Team)

"We finally have one intake point for all invoices"

We finally have one intake point for all invoices. That alone changed everything.

Ingo (OSEG)

"The earlier we’re looped in"

The earlier we’re looped in, the better we can mitigate risk and manage scope.

PM Guest (Sales/PM/Services Episode)

"Made the shift easier"

Getting in front of ERP transitions with automation made the shift easier.

Jim Larson (Godfathers Episode)

"MetaViewer does it quietly and reliably"

We deal in the boring stuff—the stuff people don’t want to do. MetaViewer does it quietly and reliably.

Shawn Dever (Godfathers Episode)

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