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Bill.com Offers Free Webinar on How to Liberate Yourself and Your Business from Paper in Less Than Seven Days. Webinar Demonstrates How You Can Focus on Strategic and Personal Priorities Instead of Minutiae By Clearing Your Desk of Paper

Bill.com announced that it will offer a free webinar on how to set you and your business paper-free in less than seven days, on Wednesday, May 22, at 1:00 p.m. PT. Registration is available now at http://cashflow.bill.com/PaperFree052213.html?medium=pr.

Eliminating papers liberates you from time-consuming processes that drain your brain and keep you stuck at your desk, giving you more time and energy to focus on strategic and personal priorities. The webinar will feature Barry Yarkoni, CEO of Vinomis Laboratories, which is growing rapidly and has been managed by paper-free offices on both coasts from day one, as well as Joel Andren, Executive Director of Paperless 2013, the paper-free initiative backed by more than 30 innovative tech companies including Bill.com.

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   By Christina Del Villar, Senior Director Marketing

CourseSmart, LLC is doing very well today – even though CFO Patti Randall’s dog loves eating books. “When we first launched in 2007, we were a bit concerned,” she says. However, her dog’s strange appetite was the least of the founders’ worries back then.

The iPhone was brand new, Twitter was only a year old, and no one yet foresaw how established processes and revenue models in virtually every business were about to be slammed by the rapidly oncoming shift away from paper-based, manual processes to the new digital and mobile technologies.

For many traditional publishers, the impact has been devastating, but for CourseSmart the shift has meant a rapid rise to the top. Now the world’s largest provider of digital course materials for college students, CourseSmart offers nearly 40,000 titles from more than 50 publishers, selling over 90% of the top-selling textbooks – at up to 60% off the paper version prices.

“Our real concern back then was that adoption might be slow,” says Randall. “We thought it might take longer for students’ behavior to change. But as it turns out, eTextbooks are the fastest growing part of the textbook industry, growing at five times the rate of print textbooks. College students today work, think and operate in a digital world. They even read their textbooks on their smartphones.”

Despite the company’s vision to transition textbooks from print to pixels, ironically, CourseSmart’s own offices were awash in cash flow management paperwork at first, until Bill.com came to the rescue. 

"Bill.com has done for us what we do for our customers – eliminated the paper."  Patti Randall, CFO of CourseSmart

 “I used to dread coming in on the days when a two-inch thick blue folder would be waiting on my desk, full of checks to sign.  I had to go through each one, make sure the back-up was there and match the check, sign the checks, and then, because we were small, I’d pass the folder on to our CEO, who also had to go through and sign them all.

“It probably took me eight to 12 hours a month, and that’s just for my own time. Now that we do it all online, it’s down to a half-hour per week, if that.

“Bill.com has done for us what we do for our customers – eliminated the paper. No shuffling paperwork or making copies, no printing out emails, no filing, no filing cabinets. We have only two printers for 40 people, and we don’t have a copier at all. 

“The mobile aspect is exciting because of our travel schedules. We like to pay our bills on time, and that used to be challenging if the CEO or a department head was out of the office. Now we can do everything from our smartphones.

“But what stands out the most for me is the time savings. I’ve had time to put in a whole new budgeting package, more time to work on strategic issues, talent acquisition, and all of the high-level decisions that keep us competitive in a rapidly-changing marketplace. In a fast-growing company like CourseSmart, there are so many opportunities to change entire industries and “put a dent in the Universe,” as Steve Jobs said – but that’s only possible if you create efficiencies, and increase productivity – so you have more time for the big ideas.”  As for her book-loving pet, Randall laughs, “That’s just one more reason CourseSmart is the ideal solution.”

Interested in going paperless? We’re presenting a free webinar on the topic with Patti Randall as the featured speaker, April 17^th. Click here to sign-up.

By Lisa Lang, SVP Marketing

Did you know there’s a whole new generation of CEOs and CFOs who run paperless businesses and insist on electronic payments instead of paper checks? They have no patience for time-consuming, paper-based processes that drag down everyone’s productivity. They’ve been endowed by game-changing cloud-based technology with certain inalienable rights, such as:

• Freedom from their desks. “No Check” CEOs aren’t tied to their offices, but free to manage their companies from wherever they need to be, with instant, real-time access to their business and financial data from anywhere, 24 hours a day.
• Freedom from bill-payment hassles. They simply scan, fax or email bills and associated documents to a cloud-based service, manage the approval process online, and make payments electronically.
• Freedom from receivables worries. “No Check” businesses rake in their receivables 2-3 times faster, thanks to e-invoicing, automatic reminders, and online customer payments deposited directly into their bank accounts.
• Freedom from cash flow uncertainty. “No Check” CEOs and CFOs get precision control over cash flow, by projecting receivables, payables and balances up to three months out, revealing potential problems well in advance.
• Freedom from check fraud. Unlike checks, electronic payments can’t be intercepted or modified. And unlike paper documents, electronic data can be protected with enterprise-level security systems.
• Freedom from paperwork. Some “No Check” businesses don’t even have file cabinets, because everything is digitized and stored online for secure access from anywhere, any time – so no need to save and store paper receipts, purchase orders, contracts, check stock or paper invoices.
• Freedom to reduce operating costs. Eliminating paper not only reduces processing costs for payables and receivables, digital access enables better cost controls through improved visibility. Getting rid of time-consuming paper-based processes also increases productivity for everyone.

Ready to become a “No Check” CEO? It’s as simple as moving your business processes from the manual, paper-based world to the cloud, via services such as Bill.com.

Explains the Competitive Edge Businesses Gain By Running Paperless Businesses,

Insisting on Electronic Payments

Bill.com, the leader in integrated bill payment, invoicing and cash management solutions for businesses, today announced that it will reveal how a new generation of “No Check” CEOs are saving money and increasing results by running paperless, electronic payment-fueled businesses in a free webinar replay, “Top Ten Reasons to Be a ‘No Check’ CEO”. Registration for the replay is available at http://cashflow.bill.com/NoCheckCEOs012813.html.

“No Check” CEOs are business leaders that are using game-changing technology to digitize a historically paper-based and time-consuming process. They and their staff can pay bills, send invoices and reminders, handle approvals, manage documents, and manage cash flow from anywhere at anytime. And they’re not only eliminating checks – they’re eliminating paper wherever they can, throughout their organizations, resulting in great savings in time and money.

The webinar will feature technology leader Mark Johnson, presently a partner at TTV Capital and previously Vice Chairman of CheckFree. As creator of CheckFree's leading online bill payment service, Mark oversaw CheckFree’s growth from a pre-revenue start-up into a public corporation with more than $1 billion in annual revenue. Prior to CheckFree, Johnson worked for the Federal Reserve Bank and Bank One.

Moderated by Bill.com founder and CEO René Lacerte, the webinar will offer many tips and tricks, including how becoming a “No Check” CEO can help you gain more control; better visibility; improved security; and better collaboration.

“It’s been very exciting for us to see the great results that the new ‘No Check’ CEOs are achieving with Bill.com and other Cloud solutions,” said René Lacerte, founder and CEO of Bill.com. “Mark is a legend in the technology community, and we look forward to an hour filled with fascinating first-hand knowledge of how to build a successful, paperless business in the Cloud today.”

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 allows 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. 

FREE BILL.COM WEBINAR SHARES SECRET RECIPE FOR FRANCHISE MULTI-UNIT GROWTH

Industry Guru Aziz Hashim Reveals How He Grew From One Store in 1996 To More Than 60 Restaurants

PALO ALTO, CALIF.— Jan. 18, 2013 — Bill.com, the leader in integrated bill payment, invoicing and cash management solutions for businesses, today announced that it will explore how moving to the cloud can help franchise owners grow their business quickly and effectively in a free webinar, “Secret Recipe on Multi-Unit Growth,” on Friday, January 25, at 11 a.m. PT. Registration is available now at http://cashflow.bill.com/multiunit_012513.html.

The webinar will feature industry guru Aziz Hashim. Hashim founded NRD Holdings in 1996 with one KFC location, and has since grown the company to over 60 restaurants, including Popeye’s, Domino’s and Checkers/Rally’s. A recognized authority on multi-unit franchise growth, Hashim often shares his experience at major restaurant and franchise conferences, and is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, QSR Magazine, and other publications.

Moderated by Bill.com founder and CEO René Lacerte, the webinar will be packed with actionable data and useful insights franchise owners can use to:

• select the right brands for rapid, profitable growth;
• address barriers to expansion;
• maximize growth while minimizing growing pains;
• optimize your cash flow with new technology; and
• save thousands of dollars every year and manage risk.

“Aziz offers an amazing wealth of knowledge and experience, and we are so pleased to have a leader of his caliber share his secrets with the Bill.com community,” said René Lacerte, founder and CEO of Bill.com. “The cloud is such a powerful tool for franchise owners looking to rapidly build profitable businesses in multiple locations. We look forward to offering practical tips on how to get started on the road to success today.”

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. 

As an entrepreneur, one of the best parts of your job is coming up with great new ideas. And, working in the technology industry, some of the most fun comes each December when you are inevitably asked to speculate on what great new strides our industry will make in the coming year. While I don’t own a crystal ball, I do have a lot of years in Silicon Valley under my belt. So I feel confident that at least some of my predictions will come true this year. Without further ado, I give you my top ten predictions for 2013:

1. Social media will weave itself into the everyday lives of people, especially businesses, in a more pervasive way than ever before.  I know this may seem obvious, but it is worth saying: social is going to become more ingrained this year than you ever thought possible.
2. Businesses will have to find ways to be more efficient with less, especially given the slow economic growth and the expected minor inflation in Q4 of 2013. This means more cloud services, which are known for reducing costs, will be utilized and developed.
3. Mobile will firmly insert itself into the everyday life of businesses.  Businesses will expect more  apps on their phones that take care of business.
4. Desktop accounting software will continue its decline. In fact, the decline will speed up as the benefits of cloud (social and mobile in particular) become expected.
5. The iPad mini will accelerate the ebook revolution.  Because of this, many more magazines will stop their paper versions, especially vertical publications.
6. Investing in social will drop dramatically because social simply cannot be monetized as a standalone product. Instead, companies with real business models will pick up the social and mobile mantle.  
7. Our society will become more and more paperless, and the products that make this happen will grow faster than other businesses.
8. There will be more collaboration across companies.   Faced with economic constraints, companies will learn to use the cloud to easily leverage each other’s innovation and intellectual property  The result will be better businesses and better solutions.  Companies will come together to solve big business problems. And hopefully this spirit of collaboration will even carry to D.C.
9. ePayments will become standard business practice, not just because of the paperless benefits mentioned above but because ePayments help people work smarter and faster.
10. 2013 will be the year of the business payment network. Credit cards will be a thing of the past as a new generation of ePayment-fueled business payment networks emerge. I will share more with you on this prediction shortly so watch this space.

So, there you have my list. If only half of these predictions come true, we will see major advancements in 2013. I’m looking forward to another exciting year and Bill.com is committed to helping drive the innovation needed to make the promise of the cloud a business reality for financial professionals everywhere.René Lacerte, CEO and Founder, Bill.com

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

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.