Put your supplier relationships on autopilot.
With Supplier Portal, suppliers can submit their own invoices, manage inquiries, and access funding. They get transparency and predictability. You get your AP team back.
Resolve Issues
Instantly
with AP Express' integrated message center. All messages are saved and archived to the invoice record for easy access.
Reduce or
Eliminate Errors
Collect, clean, update, and validate supplier contact information automatically, increasing your team’s productivity.
Keep Supply
Chain Healthy
Your suppliers get access to low-cost financing via early invoice payments, ensuring predictability of cash flow.
The average AP team spends 35% of its time responding to supplier inquiries
Which translates to each team member spending roughly seven days a month working for your suppliers,
With AP Express' integrated Supplier Portal, suppliers can:
All on their own,
freeing your team to focus elsewhere while strengthening supplier relationships and ensuring a healthier supply chain.
Your team deserves to do work that moves your business forward.
Your suppliers deserve open communication and prompt payment.
A recent industry survey found that more than half of suppliers are interested in using early payments, at least some of the time.
Christopher Gann
AP Manager, Nebraska Furniture Mart
“Before...our AP team spent way too much time responding to email and phone inquiries from our suppliers. Obviously, our suppliers are important to us, and we wanted to give them the information they needed to run their businesses, but we needed to spend our time processing invoices. The AP Express Supplier Portal was a perfect fit."
Give Suppliers
Self-Serve Access
How it works:
Onboard
Suppliers can enroll in the portal in less than 2 minutes. The AP Express team provides the support and training they need to use it.
Activate
Suppliers can immediately start uploading invoices, communicating with you, and accessing financing for payment.
Delight
Suppliers have visibility, control, and predictable cash flow. You have increased productivity, improved relationships, and a stronger supply chain.
Supplier Information Management
After receiving an invitation to register, suppliers are able to
- onboard themselves by providing basic company information,
- upload documents for verification (like W9s), and
- maintain their contact and banking information,
leading to better communication and more seamless transactions with your organization via the integrated Message Center.
Message Center
Communicate with individual suppliers, a group of suppliers, or all of your suppliers at once.
Along with sending and accessing messages, suppliers can:
- view status of invoices
- upload new invoices
- resolve disputes
All communication between buyers and suppliers is captured, attached to the invoice record, and stored for future reference and audit purposes.
Supply Chain Finance
With AP Express Supply Chain Finance, your suppliers can choose payment upon invoice approval from one of our funding partners, and you can take advantage of early-pay discounts plus have more time to pay.
Cash flow for you
We can pay your suppliers on your behalf and grant you an additional 30-45 days or more to pay.
Working capital for them
Your suppliers have more choices on when and how to get paid, resulting in a healthier, more resilient supply chain
Director of Finance
Bates Office Services
"[AP Express has] by far the best portal of its kind in my experience. It’s easy to navigate, and I can upload multiple invoices at once–brilliant!"