Batch
payments
The system has been designed to help the book trade reduce overheads
in the supply chain by improving communication between suppliers
and their customers and providing organisations of all sizes
the opportunity of the advantages of trading electronically.
The benefits for booksellers are:
* Make a single payment for all their suppliers (saving bank
charges, postage charges and time)
* View invoices online, and print copies if required (saves
requesting copy invoices from suppliers and they are immediately
available).
* See invoices on the batch system before delivery arrives.
Gives advanced notification that deliveries are on the way and
early indication if deliveries go astray.
* Make claims online (saves time consuming telephone calls,
and provides a permanent record that the claim was made and
when it was made).
* No cost to the bookseller for the standard batch service.
The benefits for suppliers are:
* See payments that the customer has agreed to make before the
due date.
* Payments received into suppliers bank, as cleared funds, on
the last working day of each month. This means not having to
wait until cheques clear.
* Claims can be received by email, meaning that fewer phone
calls should be received and claims can be dealt with at a time
to suit you.
* No need to print off and post or fax copy invoices as customers
can print their own copies from the batch website.
* No money allocation problems because batch provides a detailed
remittance, that exactly matches the payment received, and lists
each individual invoice.
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Batch
Returns
We developed an easy-to-use web interface for booksellers so that a simple request for authorisation to return books can be made, a response received and a bar-coded label printed. The request conforms to the BIC standard. The batch Returns system is being used by more that 400 bookshops who are all saving substantial amounts of time and money using such system. The publishers using Returns are improving customer care as well as removing costs.
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BIS - Batch Integration Software
As a user of BATCH, you will be familiar with the routine of
approving invoices/credits for payment in BATCH, then entering
those invoices/credits into the purchase ledger in your accounting
system with the associated checking that no errors have been
made and, if necessary, correcting any errors that do occur.
You will also be familiar with the routine of entering the payment
to your Suppliers made via Batch and allocating the payment
against all the individual invoices in your Sage Line 50 Accounts,
again with the associated checking that no errors have been
made and correcting any that do occur.
Now, to make the process even simpler, Batch has launched
BIS (Batch Integration Software).
BIS is a program that interfaces with Batch to allow download of invoices and credit notes from your Batch account to your PC. The transactions are then imported into Sage Line 50 Accounts, and each transaction is applied to the appropriate Supplier record in the Purchase Ledger.
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