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7 Best Accounts Payable Automation Solutions for K-12 Schools (2025 Comparison)

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School finance teams waste 15-20 hours weekly on manual invoice processing—time that should be spent supporting students. Every late payment, misplaced approval, and budget tracking error costs your district money it can’t afford to lose. When district budgets are stretched, paper-based accounts payable isn’t just inefficient—it’s financially irresponsible. The typical K-12 district processes over 5,000… Continue reading 7 Best Accounts Payable Automation Solutions for K-12 Schools (2025 Comparison)

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7 Best Accounts Payable Automation Solutions for K-12 Schools (2025 Comparison)

7 Best Accounts Payable Automation Solutions for K-12 Schools (2025 Comparison)Learn more arrow icon

School finance teams waste 15-20 hours weekly on manual invoice processing—time that should be spent supporting students. Every late payment, misplaced approval, and budget tracking error costs your district money it can’t afford to lose. When district budgets are stretched, paper-based accounts payable isn’t just inefficient—it’s financially irresponsible. The typical K-12 district processes over 5,000… Continue reading 7 Best Accounts Payable Automation Solutions for K-12 Schools (2025 Comparison)

How to Streamline School Procurement Process: A Comprehensive Guide for Education Leaders

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Managing procurement in educational institutions, especially charter schools and school districts, brings specific operational demands: budget accountability for taxpayer funds, strict compliance requirements, and the need to serve educational goals efficiently. For many school business managers, outdated purchasing systems consume valuable time and resources better spent on educational outcomes. The data speaks for itself: School… Continue reading How to Streamline School Procurement Process: A Comprehensive Guide for Education Leaders

The Complete Guide to Charter School Procurement Software: Solving Budget Management Challenges in 2025

The Complete Guide to Charter School Procurement Software: Solving Budget Management Challenges in 2025Learn more arrow icon

ESSER funding expires in September 2024, leaving charter schools with critical budget shortfalls. As student enrollment fluctuates and operational costs rise, your ability to track and control spending has never been more crucial. Charter schools face a unique challenge: balancing purchasing autonomy with strict financial accountability while managing diverse funding streams that each come with… Continue reading The Complete Guide to Charter School Procurement Software: Solving Budget Management Challenges in 2025

Best Procurify Alternatives: 2025 Buyer’s Guide

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Procurify is a popular procure-to-pay and spend management software — users like the platform because it has an intuitive, visually elegant dashboard and hundreds of features to manage processes (like punchout catalogs and spend cards). They commonly work with larger companies and businesses that do a lot of in-person spending. But many users also leave… Continue reading Best Procurify Alternatives: 2025 Buyer’s Guide

Understanding Purchase Order Systems

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If you use spreadsheets to create more than 20 purchase orders monthly,  you know the process is time-consuming and error-prone.  The result? Wasted time, frequent stockouts, and an overreliance on cumbersome Excel sheets. A purchase order system can transform how you manage procurement, offering significant benefits like: In this guide, we’ll walk you through how… Continue reading Understanding Purchase Order Systems

Best Precoro Alternatives: 2025 Buyer’s Guide

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Precoro is a popular procure-to-pay solution because it boasts 100+ features for automating and supporting workflows. The platform is noted as being modern, user-friendly, and easy to learn.  However, Precoro is on the pricier side compared to similar solutions. The recommended P2P package starts at $999/month, with additional costs for essential tools like optical character… Continue reading Best Precoro Alternatives: 2025 Buyer’s Guide

15 Tips To Lower Operating Costs For SMB’s in 2025

15 Tips To Lower Operating Costs For SMB’s in 2025 Learn more icon

If you want to improve the profitability of your business and lower your operational costs, this blog is for you. We’ve detailed the 15 top tips to help you strategically keep up with cost-reduction efforts for your business. By the end of this blog, you’ll understand saving opportunities that you might have often overlooked and… Continue reading 15 Tips To Lower Operating Costs For SMB’s in 2025

Procure-to-Pay System: The Process & 2025 Software List

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Procure-to-pay encompasses the activities of the procurement department and the accounts payable team. It covers everything from strategic sourcing and buying products to paying invoices and tracking budgets and spending. By connecting procurement processes, accounts payable, and payments, procure-to-pay systems eliminate challenges such as surprise invoices, going over budget, disorganized communications, wasted time, and more.… Continue reading Procure-to-Pay System: The Process & 2025 Software List

Best Tipalti Alternatives: 2025 Buyer’s Guide

Best Tipalti Alternatives: 2025 Buyer’s Guide Learn more icon

We review the best Tipalti alternatives in the procure-to-pay space so you can find a solution to support procurement teams, purchasers, and accounts payable.