Why Payment Flexibility Matters Now

Consumers expect flexible payments everywhere, from subscriptions to buy-now-pay-later at checkout. For businesses, offering installment plans builds loyalty, improves cash flow and even reduces delinquency rates.

How long should it take to pay your vendors in 2025? Standards and expectations are constantly evolving, especially as technology changes and creates new benchmarks for speed.

Credit unions stand out in the financial world with their close connection to the community. Their members are different from account holders at a bank, for example. Helping those members stay current on their financial obligations is a real part of the mission for a credit union, as opposed to a faceless ledger item.

Many businesses have big dreams when it comes to digital transformation. Advancements in AI have been another huge accelerant on top of changes that have already been moving swiftly. 

Today’s increasingly complex automotive lending environment presents challenges both new and old for dealerships and their financial partners. While auto loan debt is nothing new, economic hardships for many consumers paired with the rising cost of vehicles is increasing the risk of delinquencies for borrowers of all types. Auto loan debt has reached levels higher than those of the pre-pandemic market, including for prime and midprime borrowers. With interest rates expected to remain at relatively high...

How many times have you used a digital payment method in the past week? Maybe you used a mobile checkout for your latest grocery order. Or maybe you used text-to-pay for your water bill. As these methods become more common, they cease to become a curiosity and become more of an expectation. 

Educational institutions face increasing pressure to maintain financial transparency, protect sensitive data and comply with a growing list of regulations. From vendor disbursements and grant allocations to student refunds and operational payments, back-office finance teams are navigating a complex and highly scrutinized payments landscape.

As businesses navigate increasingly complex accounts payable (AP) processes, they face a growing challenge: finding and retaining skilled AP professionals. Recent economic uncertainty has only exacerbated this issue, with many organizations operating lean AP teams that struggle to keep up with the workload.

Auto loan payments shouldn’t be complicated. But for many borrowers (and the lenders serving them) making or processing a simple monthly payment can still involve outdated systems, limited options and unnecessary frustration. In today’s digital world, that’s a serious problem.

In today’s financial landscape, credit unions face increasing pressure to do more with less. With rising operating expenses, evolving compliance demands and growing member expectations, finding sustainable ways to manage costs has never been more important. Traditional payment processing methods are expensive, time consuming and increasingly out of step with what members expect in a digital-first world.