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Back by Popular Demand, Webinar Replay Helps Franchise Owners Use the Cloud

to Transform Their Operations, Make More Money

PALO ALTO, CALIF.— Dec. 19, 2012 — Bill.com, the leader in integrated bill payment, invoicing and cash management solutions for businesses, today announced that it will offer franchise owners five steps to grow their franchises by five times in a replay of a free webinar on Thursday, December 20, at 11 a.m. PT. Registration is available now at http://cashflow.bill.com/5Steps_122012.html.

This webinar will discuss how cloud computing can help franchise owners use breakthrough cloud technology to transform their operations and make more money. The webinar will feature Peter Biro, multi-unit owner of Five Guys Burgers and Fries and former owner of Naked Pizza stores, who will explain how he uses automated systems to grow businesses without adding any overhead while saving tens of thousands of dollars annually.

Packed with actionable data and useful insights, the webinar will cover how to:

• grow franchise operations;
• keep overhead under control;
• reduce paperwork to the bare minimum; and
• create a cash flow management process that scales.

“Given their geographically dispersed locations, franchises are often victim to unnecessary overhead and paperwork confusion,” said René Lacerte, founder and CEO of Bill.com. “We look forward to sharing some ideas on how deploying a cloud-based solution can not only simplify but improve franchises’ business.”

Bill.com delivers a complete web-based financial solution for businesses and accountants that provides the tools, information, and collaboration required to better manage their financial tasks and optimize cash flow. Bill.com's game-changing technology digitizes a historically paper-based and time-consuming process, allowing users to access online bill payments, e-invoicing, document management, and automated workflow through one easy system. In addition to seamlessly integrating with businesses' existing accounting software programs, Bill.com provides financial leaders with a comprehensive view of their cash forecast - making it the only solution that connects a user's banks, bookkeeping, and business.

Last week was a big week at Bill.com. We have made many great technological advancements in this past year, but our next-generation application platform is perhaps one of our biggest leaps forward. For the first time, we are moving beyond accounting software by offering open APIs that enable developers to natively integrate applications ranging from expense management solution to complete CRM systems with our platform. This is great news for our customers because it means that they can finally have a complete view of all the business processes at work in their companies, empowering them to make decisions quickly and accurately based on real-time data.

It is also great news for the developer community because this is a chance for them to serve an entirely new customer base.  OneSaas has already used our open APIs successfully to build the new Xero integration, for example, and they have much more in store. And it is easy to get started and join the community. Developers just need to visit http://developer.bill.com to download a free kit that will help them easily write to the Bill.com platform using JSON, the easiest, most lightweight data model available.

Alex Williams from TechCrunch wrote about our new platform last week and his article, “Bill.com Opens The Data Behind the Business Transaction With A New Application Powered By Open APIs,” is worth a read because I think he makes clear exactly what we are trying to do with this platform—bring our users more information so they can access data and make transactions in real-time while bringing developers a whole new audience. 

There is one passage from Alex’s article that is especially reflective of what we are trying to achieve:

“Bill.com is a modern data workflow company that is building pipes to filter the great pools of data that, until recently, have largely been cemented in spreadsheets, invoices, etc….Some compare data to oil and the pipes that are used to turn it into any imaginable kind of product that can be produced in a data factory. That’s how I view Bill.com and the ecosystem it is helping to develop.”

We look forward to building our ecosystem with th e developer community. Together we can free data, empower customers, and bring the financial community to the forefront of technological advancements. 

René Lacerte, Founder and CEO, Bill.com

12/13/12 - Bill.com Opens The Data Behind The Business Transaction With A New Application Platform Powered By Open APIs

By: Alex Williams

Bill.com is opening the data behind the business with a new application platform powered by open APIs for third-party developers. The new platform allows developers to integrate native apps with Bill.com’s software so finance professionals can access more information from individual customer transactions in real time.

The new application platform gives third-party developers access to Bill.com’s open APIs for abstracting the paper and all the manual tasks that come with managing different forms of transactions. Bill payment, invoicing, cash management and the associated integrations that come with Bill.com are now available with third-party apps. Developers may then offer the integrations on a marketplace managed by Bill.com.

The new integration includes Bill.com’s sync feature, which uses real-time data to help finance professionals to quickly find discrepancies and make quick decisions based on the immediacy of the information that they now have.

Read more here.

12/13/12 Bill.com Extends Integration Beyond Accounting Software

By: Taija Jenkins, Associate Editor - CPA Practice Advisor

Bill.com announced today it will offer a new application platform, which will extend its integration beyond accounting software to business applications.

BILL.COM RELEASES NEXT-GENERATION APPLICATION PLATFORM, ENABLES NEW DEVELOPER ECOSYSTEM WITH OPEN APIs

Bill.com’s Market-Leading Sync Now Enables Integrations with Systems Across A Wide Range of Business Apps

Palo Alto, Calif.— Dec. 13, 2012 — Bill.com, the leader in integrated bill payment, invoicing, and cash management solutions for businesses, today extended its market-leading integration beyond accounting software, introducing its next-generation application platform. This new platform offers open APIs, enabling developers to natively integrate applications ranging from expense management solutions to complete CRM systems with the Bill.com platform. Developers can now offer finance professionals a complete view of all business processes at work in their companies, and, via Bill.com’s powerful sync feature, they can for the first time ensure that data discrepancies can be quickly resolved, meaning that decisions can be made quickly and accurately based on real-time data.

This tight integration also means that developers have access to an entirely new marketplace for their software via Bill.com’s growing user community   Developers can visit http://developer.bill.com to download a free kit to help them easily write to the Bill.com platform using JSON, the easiest, most lightweight data model available.

“We are thrilled that Bill.com has partnered with OneSaas to be the first company to complete an integration with the new Bill.com platform,” said Jeff Perlman, CEO, OneSaas, which just launched the integration between Xero and Bill.com last month. “By establishing a robust integration between Bill.com and our multi-point service, we can now bring several new business applications to financial professionals seamlessly embedded into Bill.com interface.”

Bill.com delivers a complete web-based financial solution for businesses and accountants that provides the tools, information, and collaboration required to better manage their financial tasks and optimize cash flow. Bill.com's game-changing technology digitizes a historically paper-based and time-consuming process, allowing users to access online bill payments, e-invoicing, document management, and automated workflow through one easy system. In addition to seamlessly integrating with businesses' existing accounting software programs, Bill.com provides financial leaders with a comprehensive view of their cash forecast - making it the only solution that connects a user's banks, bookkeeping, and business.  

The top three features of the new Bill.com platform are:

• Business APIs: These give access to all business objects, connecting all the business processes into CEOs’ and finance managers’ workflows while creating an entirely new marketplace for developers.
• Sync APIs: Bill.com pioneered sync in the payment space, with seamless integration with all leading accounting software, and now Bill.com is broadening its reach and enabling seamless integration to all business solutions, meaning cash flow can finally be managed all from one place.
• Service APIs: Bill.com offers full integration to the Bill.com interface, making it simple and quick to push content to Bill.com so users can manage all their business information in one place.

“Bill.com has had remarkable success uniting disparate accounting systems, finally freeing finance professionals from the old manual, error-prone ways of managing finances,” said René Lacerte, founder and CEO, Bill.com. “Now, we are taking things a step further and extending our platform beyond accounting software, validating how pivotal our customers are to all the business processes happening at their companies. We look forward to seeing the amazing integrations developers will create and to building a thriving ecosystem around the Bill.com platform.”

For more information or to download the free developer kit, please visit  http://developer.bill.com.

Webinar Will Illustrate How To Use the Cloud to Transform Dental Practice Payments And  Make More Money

PALO ALTO, CALIF.— Dec. 12, 2012 — Bill.com, the leader in integrated bill payment, invoicing and cash management solutions for businesses, today announced that it will explore how dentists can deploy breakthrough cloud technology to transform their practices and make more money in a free webinar, “How Cloud Computing Changes the Game for Dentists,” on Thursday, December 13, at 11 a.m. PT. Registration is available now at http://cashflow.bill.com/gcdentist_121312.

This webinar will discuss how cloud computing can help dentists automate time-consuming, inefficient manual processes like billing and payables, eliminating unnecessary paperwork and—most importantly—identifying the key areas for improvement in their practice. Featuring Mike White, CPA, of M. White & Associates, a firm that provides accounting, tax and consulting services to dental and medical practices, the webinar will inform attendees how to:

• control their cash flow;
• boost their revenue;
• increase their production per patient;
• increase their collections per patient; and
• get more new patients.

The webinar will also discuss how new tax laws will affect dentists, detailing all the likely changes.

“The cloud has the potential to save dentists not only money but valuable time that they could be spending with their patients and building their practice,” said René Lacerte, founder and CEO of Bill.com. “We look forward to sharing some great ideas and useful tips on how the cloud can transform the very way dental practices are run in what is sure to be an informative and lively discussion.”

Bill.com delivers a complete web-based financial solution for businesses and accountants that provides the tools, information, and collaboration required to better manage their financial tasks and optimize cash flow. Bill.com's game-changing technology digitizes a historically paper-based and time-consuming process, allowing users to access online bill payments, e-invoicing, document management, and automated workflow through one easy system. In addition to seamlessly integrating with business' existing accounting software programs, Bill.com provides financial leaders with a comprehensive view of their cash forecast - making it the only solution that connects a user's banks, bookkeeping, and business.  

This week, I am pleased to announce our further integration with Intuit’s QuickBooks product line, including QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Enterprise. I’m pleased not just because this means QuickBooks’s more
than four million SMB customers have an even easier way to integrate Bill.com into QuickBooks, but because this is the culmination of two great companies sharing the same laser focus on developing for their customers.

At Intuit’s core, they listen to customers and develop for them. I learned this during my five years on the product management team at Intuit, and I have been impressed as their focus on customers has remained constant even as they have added new types of customers.

In the last few years, with the Intuit Partner Platform, Intuit has added developers like Bill.com to their list of customers. Over the past four years, we have worked closely with Intuit as they have developed their app platform. Our feedback has been critical and well received. When we first started working with them, Intuit was still trying to figure out how to open up the APIs and distribute the resulting apps. They knew they wanted a platform ecosystem, but were new to building one.

But they are learning. And this is because of one important fact about Intuit: they don’t just study their customers, they follow them home. In the case of developers, they have come to our office to learn and strategize next steps. I feel they are listening and doing their best, even though they may not be as nimble as a start-up. In fact, last year Intuit invited me to speak at both their CEO and management offsites, which focused on how to be a good partner to developers. I respect their commitment to always learn more and mine all they can from their developer relationships.

Through their dedication with making their customers happy, Intuit has built a great platform and we are glad to be a founding—and vital—part of it. Like Intuit, listening to our customers is at the very core of our values. We look forward to your thoughts on this newest integration with Intuit. And we promise to continue focusing all of our efforts on bringing you, our customers what you want and what you need to be successful.

René Lacerte, Founder and CEO

Bill.com, the leader in integrated bill payment, invoicing, and cash management solutions for businesses, today announced that it is now offering its popular integration with QuickBooks Online to those using QuickBooks Pro, Premier, and Enterprise. Now even more QuickBooks users can seamlessly integrate Bill.com into their financial management systems and create tailored solutions for their distinct needs.

By integrating Bill.com directly into QuickBooks, small businesses can easily deploy Bill.com, taking advantage of the tools, information, and collaboration required to better manage their financial tasks and optimize cash flow. It requires just one click installation from the Bill.com page on the Intuit App Center for any compatible version of QuickBooks. Users can get started in seconds, they just click “Try It Now” and it brings all their bills to Bill.com, and starts paying them online. Also, Bill.com automatically syncs payables and receivables data.

“Bill.com has been a leading solution on our platform, receiving strong positive customer feedback, so we are excited it is now available to even more small businesses,” said Alex Chriss, director of the Intuit Partner Platform. “Allowing our millions of users to fully and easily personalize QuickBooks with Bill.com gives them not only a superior financial management solution but lets them spend more time growing their business and less time chasing down transactions.”

Bill.com delivers a complete web-based financial solution for businesses and accountants that provides the tools, information, and collaboration required to better manage their financial tasks and optimize cash flow. Bill.com's innovative technology digitizes a historically paper-based and time-consuming process, allowing users to access online bill payments, e-invoicing, document management, and automated workflow through one easy system. In addition to seamlessly integrating with businesses' existing accounting software programs, Bill.com provides financial leaders with a comprehensive view of their cash forecast - making it the only solution that connects a user's bank, bookkeeping, and business.  Bill.com empowers finance leaders to get paid 2 to 3 times faster and save over 50% of the time spent paying bills – all with unprecedented control, precision, and security. 

“Intuit and Bill.com share the common goal of bolstering small businesses’ productivity by easing their financial management burdens,” said René Lacerte, Bill.com founder and CEO. “As a long-time top performing app on the Intuit App Center, we are excited to make it even easier for small businesses to integrate our leading solutions together, letting business owners focus their minds on more important matters.”

Webinar Will Illustrate How To Become a “Strategic CFO”

By Using The Latest Technology To Deliver The Highest Strategic Value

PALO ALTO, CALIF.— Dec. 4, 2012 — Bill.com, the leader in integrated bill payment, invoicing and cash management solutions for businesses, today announced that it has teamed with leading cloud financial management company Intacct to explore how the new generation of “Strategic CFOs” can free themselves of mundane tasks and use cloud computing to deliver the highest strategic value to their businesses in a free webinar. “How Cloud Computing Changes the Game for CFOs,” will be held Thursday, December 6, at 11 a.m. PT. Registration is available now at http://online.intacct.com/20121206WebinarStrategicCFO_billcom.html.

Up-and-coming “Strategic CFOs” are using game-changing advances to automate manual processes and deliver unprecedented visibility into business performance – freeing their time and providing more rich information than ever before to fulfill their new role as emerging business leaders. This webinar features Marc Linden, CFO, Intacct, and joint Bill.com/Intacct customer Stacey Lee, CFO, Earth Class Mail.  Sponsored by Bill.com, it will teach attendees how to:

• seize the opportunity to assume a larger role in their organization;
• boost the productivity of their finance team;
• speed up competitive response with instant visibility into critical data;
• free their IT and capital resources to focus on their core business; and
• scale and adapt to growing business needs easily and cost-effectively.

“Technology has the power to transform the CFO role, finally freeing these critical corporate thinkers from mundane tasks and giving them time to make meaningful business decisions,” said René Lacerte, founder and CEO of Bill.com. “We are pleased to team with our strategic partner Intacct on this webinar, and look forward to sharing some great ideas and hearing first-hand success stories from the vibrant CFO community.”

Bill.com delivers a complete web-based financial solution for businesses and accountants that provides the tools, information, and collaboration required to better manage their financial tasks and optimize cash flow. Bill.com's game-changing technology digitizes a historically paper-based and time-consuming process, allowing users to access online bill payments, e-invoicing, document management, and automated workflow through one easy system. In addition to seamlessly integrating with business' existing accounting software programs, Bill.com provides financial leaders with a comprehensive view of their cash forecast - making it the only solution that connects a user's banks, bookkeeping, and business.  

René Lacerte - Insights From a Fourth-Generation Entrepreneur.

CPA Advisor Executive Editor Darren Root sits down with René Lacerte to talk about his background, how he has grown two successful businesses and what he sees as the future of technology in the accounting profession.

Read the Cover Story here: http://go.bill.com/fIFdF