Posted in Workflow Automation

What Makes Electronic Signatures Legally Binding?

With the increasing popularity of remote work, the demand for electronic signatures (“eSignatures” or “e-signatures”) has skyrocketed. Employees may be working from home but businesses still need to continue operations and obtain properly signed documents.

They must still sign off on purchases, onboard new hires, and approve invoices. With e-signatures, users can easily sign electronic documents online using their mouse, stylus, or touchscreen device. Businesses can still enforce corporate policies and proper governance.

Electronic signature software also speeds up these everyday activities since there’s no need for printing, signing, scanning, and filing. Managers can even electronically sign off on a PO or new hire using their mobile device at any time and from anywhere.

But are electronic signatures legally binding? In this piece, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about whether your e-signature is legal or not. 

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Posted in Finance Automation

Accounts Payable Automation Examples To Improve Your AP Process

Over half of all organizations say that manual accounts payable (AP) processes are inefficient.

Not just that, but 16% of organizations admit that they experience fraud issues associated with manual accounts payable processes.

Rather than struggle with slow, error-prone AP workflows, companies switch to accounts payable automation solutions. 

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Posted in Approval Processes

A Complete Guide to Expense Automation

If employees frequently travel for work, they’ll need to submit expense reports to receive a reimbursement and comply with travel policies.

Keeping track of expenses that employees incur is vital to managing your cash flow. It also allows you to properly reimburse your employees for any expenses they make.

But any missteps in this process could lead to problems — inaccurate claims, unclear policies, and even fraud are common expense reporting issues that organizations face.

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Posted in Workflow Automation

A Complete Guide to Workflow Automation

Manual tasks like data entry routing aren’t just tedious and repetitive — they take employees away from more engaging work. Employees waste valuable time when they fill out forms and chase down their managers for signatures.

So how can you streamline these tasks and ensure that you (and your employees) don’t get bogged down by monotonous activities? 

The answer is workflow automation.

If your organization is still doing things manually, it’s time for a change. Automating business processes increases overall productivity and eliminates tedious tasks.

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6 Business-Boosting Benefits of Workflow Automation

It’s no surprise that over half of business leaders are showing an interest in workflow automation.

After all, 74% of business leaders and employees believe segments of their jobs could be automated. 

Not only would this speed up workflows, but it would also reduce labor costs and increase workflow scalability.

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10 Business Process Automation Use Cases

Employees spend (and waste) a lot of time on repetitive tasks — routing documents to approvers, entering data into spreadsheets, searching for files, etc.

A process that should only take a few days to complete ends up taking weeks or longer. If your business is still doing things manually, it’s time to modernize your processes. 

This is where business process automation or BPA comes in — using technology to automate processes in your organization.

In this article, we’ll explain what business process automation is and how it improves operational efficiency. We’ll also look at ten real-world use cases for BPA.

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Posted in HR Automation

How to Create an Optimized Employee Onboarding Workflow

The onboarding process plays a crucial role in building a more productive workforce. Getting new hires in on the right foot enables them to start contributing sooner rather than later.

Onboarding serves as an employee’s first introduction to a company. But this process is often hampered by paperwork, as new hires are inundated with piles of tedious forms.

As a result, new hires are left feeling overwhelmed before they start. So how can you streamline the employee onboarding process and leave new hires with a positive first impression?

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Posted in Workflow Automation

7 BPM Best Practices You Can’t Ignore

Whether you’re managing them or not, every business has processes.

The problem is that if you’re not taking control over how you manage those processes, you won’t be able to spot the blockages in your pipelines.

The result? Extra costs, unexplained delays, and repeated errors.

If these issues sound familiar, it’s time to take control.

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Posted in Workflow Automation

6 Business Process Improvement Examples to Boost Efficiency

Most businesses could stand to improve their processes.

It’s not that businesses are purposely choosing to run ineffectively, they just don’t realize where they could boost efficiency.

For example, most organizations don’t realize that at least a third of activities for 60% of jobs could be automated. Just imagine what your company could achieve with all that extra time.

To understand where you could streamline operations, you need to dig into the different processes at play within your firm.

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Posted in Approval Processes

How to Create an Automated Document Approval Workflow

Organizations heavily depend on processes to get work done. Standard processes ensure that tasks like employee onboarding and procurement are completed in an efficient manner.

But among the more time-consuming are document approvals. Certain documents, such as purchase orders and invoices, must flow through a series of steps to ensure compliance and standardization.

Doing things manually or not having a formal approval process in place at all will cost your business over the long-term.

So, how do you create a document approval workflow? What tools are available that can automate the approval process?

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