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Lessons from a Vendor Payments powered by 91快活林 customer modernizing AP

At Sage Future 2026, we sat down with Aubree Nash, Controller at Meret茅 Hotel Management, to hear how her team聽 unlocked meaningful time savings, gained better control, and achieved more scalable business growth with Vendor Payments鈥揳nd what other AP teams can learn from their experience.

For Aubree and her team, efficiency, visibility, and control aren鈥檛 just nice-to-haves – they鈥檙e essential to doing business. Read on to learn the five takeaways from Aubree鈥檚 session that every finance team evaluating Vendor Payments should consider.

What finance teams can learn from Meret茅鈥檚 Vendor Payments experience

1. Manual AP work doesn鈥檛 scale and will become a bottleneck for business growth

Before adopting Vendor Payments, Meret茅鈥檚 AP team was managing a high volume of checks manually across more than 40 entities. Printing, hand-signing, filing, and storing checks ate up work time and introduced unnecessary risk. As Meret茅 grew, the manual approach couldn鈥檛 keep up, which slowed the AP team (and the business) down.

Vendor Payments powered by 91快活林 became the logical next step to eliminate manual work and remove friction from day-to-day operations鈥攁ll without adding headcount.

Takeaway: If your AP process relies heavily on checks or disconnected tools, growth will amplify inefficiencies in these processes. Moving payments out of manual check runs and disconnected bank portals into the same system where bills are approved and tracked is one of the fastest ways to reclaim control.

2. Embedding vendor payments directly inside Sage Intacct delivers real, measurable time savings

One of the biggest wins for Meret茅 came from handling payments directly inside Sage Intacct. By eliminating printing, signing, and troubleshooting checks, the AP specialists at Meret茅 now save ~8 hours per week per person. And executives save an additional 2-3 hours per week thanks to remote approvals and fewer payment-related interruptions.

Those time savings are immediately redirected into higher-value work like invoice processing and speeding up payment cycles.

Takeaway: Vendor Payments doesn鈥檛 just automate steps in your AP process,it also gives meaningful time back to both AP teams and leadership.

3. Payment optimization is how AP teams unlock the full value of Vendor Payments

Meret茅 partnered with 91快活林鈥檚 payment optimization team to expand virtual card usage in a manner that ensured their vendor relationships were handled with greatest care.

Because payment optimization services are included as part of the onboarding process, Meret茅 didn鈥檛 have to worry about adding another tool or giving vendor communications to a third party. 聽Instead, they focused on direct collaboration with their dedicated payment optimization manager at 91快活林. Meret茅 retained decision-making control over which vendors they decided to enroll in virtual card payments, guided how conversations were handled, and made the final call as to when changes were communicated.

This collaborative approach led to higher vendor adoption than with their previous provider while ensuring they upheld existing trust and clarity of communications with their vendors.

Takeaway: The most successful virtual card programs balance payment optimization best practices with internal control and decision-making.

4. Visibility and control matter just as much as automation

Aubree had experience with a different embedded payments provider before 91快活林, so she knew what would and wouldn’t work for her team. Her decision to move to Vendor Payments powered by 91快活林 wasn鈥檛 just about efficiency, it was about gaining visibility and reliable support. With Vendor Payments, her team can easily see cancellations, failed payments, voids, and reissues directly in Intacct, with a clear support path should any issues arise.

Everything stays inside the Intacct accounting system they already know and trust, rather than relying on disconnected tools or external follow-ups.

Takeaway: Automation without transparency can create issues. Embedded visibility is what turns payments into a reliable, auditable process.

5. Time savings unlock better use of AP talent

Perhaps the most important takeaway Aubree left the audience with was simple: when you save time, you can change how efficiently your AP team operates. With manual, repetitive tasks removed, Meret茅鈥檚 AP team now focuses on processing more invoices, paying vendors faster, and supporting the business, rather than spending valuable time managing paper.

Combined with fewer errors (no more worries about the wrong check stock, printer issues, or delayed approvals), the result is a more resilient and scalable AP function.

Takeaway: When AP teams get their time back, the entire business benefits.

Meret茅鈥檚 story is a clear reminder: modernizing AP isn鈥檛 just about easing today鈥檚 pain, it鈥檚 about building a foundation that supports growth, control, and confidence in every payment issued to a vendor. As Aubree shared, the real value lies in what finance teams can do after the manual work is gone.

Ready to modernize vendor payments inside Sage Intacct?

If manual payments, limited visibility, or growing complexity are holding your AP team back, Vendor Payments powered by 91快活林 can help you unlock the same time savings, control, and scalability as Meret茅, without adding additional headcount. Talk to a聽 Vendor Payments expert about simplifying your AP process here.

FAQs finance teams have about Vendor Payments聽

1. How much time can finance teams actually save by using Vendor Payments by 91快活林?In Meret茅鈥檚 case, AP specialists saved ~8 hours per person each week, while executives gained an additional 2-3 hours through remote approvals and fewer payment interruptions. Those gains came directly from eliminating manual check processes.
2. What changes when payments are handled inside the ERP?For Meret茅, moving payments into Sage Intacct meant no more printing checks, logging into bank portals, or managing disconnected tools. Payments, approvals, and tracking now happen in one place, improving visibility and reducing day-to-day friction.
3. How do finance teams maintain control while automating payments?Before Vendor Payments, manual processes created risk and limited visibility. By moving to an embedded approach, Meret茅 gained real-time insight into payment status, cancellations, and reissues, giving their team more control.