If one of your New Year’s resolutions for 2026 is to modernize your AR (accounts receivable) process, pick another. It’s essential to upgrade during these final few weeks of 2025.
Each day you use a manual AR process – or even an automated one lacking proper tools – delays payments and collections. This drives up your DSO (Days Sales Outstanding), which is the amount of time it takes you to get paid, and brings cash flow to a halt. Your company can’t grow that way.
Thinking of automating AR? This blog explains why now is the time to do so.
HighRadius reports that lowering DSO by just six days can free $3 million in capital. Even if you don’t have access to that amount, any additional funds gained by lowering DSO can go toward modifying equipment, extending marketing efforts, and luring more talent or retaining who you have, enabling you to hit the ground running in 2026.
AR automation works by seamlessly handling time-consuming manual accounting tasks. At Bill360, which is built solely for B2B companies like yours, our platform creates payment-ready e-invoices as soon as work has been completed, accurately and automatically reconciles them to payment, and saves you thousands on swipe fees by processing payments for ACH and credit cards. That is why PYMNTS reports 91% of mid-sized companies that have fully automated AR experienced increases in savings, cash flow, and growth. One of our customers reduced their DSO by 88%.
Implementing AR automation doesn’t mean you have to lay off your staff. Rather, you’ll increase employee retention by freeing them from mundane accounting chores. Automate AR now, and your employees will spend their week spurring your company’s growth by tackling more creative projects or devoting more time to customers.
More importantly, AR automation is scalable. If you’re forecasting a holiday surge in business, you won’t have to spend money and time hiring temporary staff to weather the storm. As the invoices pile in, you can run your business with peace of mind knowing your AR process is being handled with speed and precision. And because you’re doing it at no added expense, those holiday sales go back to your company, increasing cash flow and setting you up for long-term success.
AR automation doesn’t just make life easier for your team. It provides full transparency into your business and calculates crucial data – so you don’t have to.
Bill360’s AR automation platform includes a dashboard that’s easy to access and even easier to read. It provides real-time updates on DSO and AR aging while providing predictive analysis that lets you know if a slow season is on the horizon. That way, you can set aside cash and pay expenses without having to take out costly loans or lines of credit.
You also get 18 months of your customers’ buying history and can spot whenever a customer is expected to pay late. This enables you to send that customer – or customers – customized, automated payment reminders while leaving your prompt payers alone.
Implementing AR now means you don’t have to wait until 2026 to see what sales will look like in 2026.
AR automation was created to make your life simpler. That’s why it requires minimum training and syncs with your existing accounting software like QuickBooks and Xero. Adding it to your tech stack now means it’ll be in place for you to enjoy your holidays in ways that wouldn’t be possible with a manual AR process.
You won’t have to worry about invoices piling up on your desk. Instead, they are automatically reconciled to payments and streamlined into a secure, cloud-based platform. And your customers can access their own self-service portals to manage payment wallets, enabling them to pay you digitally with ACH and credit cards. You’ll get paid faster than ever without having to run to the office or bank to deposit checks.
You won’t find many accounting automation platforms like Bill360, which is 100% dedicated to both AR and B2B companies like yours. Our embedded platform combines e-invoicing, auto reconciliation, and payment processing, getting you paid an average of 36% faster than your current process and enabling you to start 2026 on a high note.
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FAQ
Every day you spend on a manual AR process slows the payment process, stifles cash flow, and prevents your B2B from reaching its true potential.
Not at all. Bill360 requires minimal training and syncs with accounting software like QuickBooks and Xero, which means you won’t be starting from scratch. There’s plenty of time to add AR automation to your tech stack in 2025.
AR automation is built to scale and grows along with your company. It won’t burn out or start making mistakes from the increase of invoices it creates and reconciles. Rather, it handles your growth seamlessly.