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document management is now a coming-of-age technology that can have widespread benefits on your business’s bottom line as well as on the environment. Like many green technologies, document processing has financial benefits as well, since it reduces the consumption of resources that threaten both the planet’s sustainability and your profit margin – cutting down on waste is win/win. Invoice processing is another side of this, and this can have further benefits. Taken together, these technologies bring efficiencies to your business, streamlining the way your offices are run without entailing the major upheaval that converting to a paperless system would if carried out in one fell swoop.

These document processing systems, described at their simplest, convert physical documents such as letter, memos, invoices and reports, into electronic versions that can be stored on your computer network and accessed like any other file. This means that no one has to spend time looking for a lost piece of paper ever again; so long as things are filed in the right place (the document management system is the virtual filing cabinet), you don’t need to photocopy sheets of paper to make them available to more than one person. Neither do things get forgotten merely because they have been placed at the bottom of a stack of paperwork. This is particularly important with invoices, since if you have a two-tier system where electronically-sent invoices are paid first and fastest using BACS, and physical ones are paid more slowly (and possibly irregularly, since they are becoming less common and more problematic), you risk upsetting clients or suppliers.

All of this means that document processing ticks all three boxes for the so-called triple bottom line. Running an effective document management system brings economic, environmental and relational advantages through increased efficiencies, lower waste, faster payments and happier, less stressed staff. One aspect of this your business may not have considered in the past is invoice processing, which avoids the problems of sending pdf invoices with its own fully-compliant system that enables e-invoices to be sent instantly and directly to clients and suppliers. Incidentally, it also removes most of the errors associated with fraud and invoices that have been sent accidentally, including duplicates – something you should certainly bear in mind since the cost savings alone can be substantial, before you even start to weigh up the other advantages.

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