Every restaurant business is plagued by a set of common Accounts payable challenges which hold back real estate and property management businesses from achieving their full potential.

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Here are common Accounts Payable problems real estate businesses had to endure until they leveraged the Real Estate Accounts Payable Services from Back Office Accountants

Tedious & Time-Consuming Manual Invoice Processing: No matter the business sector, the manual invoice has always been a problem in an Accounts Payable. When it comes to real estate business sector, the problem amplifies, given the high-volume transactions and also the number of formats the invoice arrive-in. While manual invoice process has always been a tedious and time-consuming task in AP, the multiple invoice formats i.e. manual and e-invoices pose a lot of challenges for the AP resources to record, process, and track or correct the error in AP.

Invoicing Errors – Duplicate Invoices: Given manual invoice processing is itself time consuming, the errors associated with invoicing can be notoriously difficult to correct when invoice volume is high and resources are short. In most cases vendors send multiple invoices as a reminder for faster payment, resulting in double payments, errors such as these can cop severe blows to financial position. So without adequate AP resources and expertise a lot of time, effort and also money is wasted – a common problem for all Real Estate Accounts Payable Process.

Reluctance to switch to automated AP solutions: As the majority of the real estate business has been around for a long time, most of them still rely on age-old practices which come with their own set of challenges and problems. For example, manual or hybrid, the processing is almost always performed by relying on paper-based processes, spreadsheets, or other manual and time-consuming processes which increase the likelihood of errors burns more time and often difficult to manage and optimize for better performance. In the age of automated solutions, customized real estate Accounts Payable solutions, cloud storage and computing, manual and paper-based processes hold back the real estate accounting from achieving better performance.