{"id":18711,"date":"2016-06-09T15:49:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T22:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=18711"},"modified":"2016-06-09T15:49:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T22:49:45","slug":"greatamerica-financial-launches-automated-spreadsheet-invoicing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/news\/2016\/06\/greatamerica-financial-launches-automated-spreadsheet-invoicing\/","title":{"rendered":"GreatAmerica Financial Launches Automated Spreadsheet Invoicing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Automated Billing Process Allows Office Technology Dealers to Meet End-User Invoicing Demands<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Cedar Rapids, IA)\u2014GreatAmerica Financial Services announced today the release of an automated Excel\u00ae billing platform allowing office technology dealers to provide billing information in a spreadsheet format to their customers. The new invoicing option comes in response to customer demands to easily perform analysis on billing data, such as machine utilization, department breakouts, cost centers and trend analysis for budgeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to bill in the way our dealers\u2019 customers want to be billed and this platform gives us the flexibility to do that,\u201d said Tawnya Stone, Vice President, Strategic Partner Technology, GreatAmerica Financial Services.<\/p>\n<p>Trends in the past few years with big data have sparked increased interest by end users to access their raw data and manipulate in the way they want, requiring many dealers to manually enter billing details into spreadsheets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve heard from dealers that the data entry can take up to 30 minutes per customer per invoice. In addition to creating a time savings for our dealers, anything that is manual increases the opportunity for errors. Our automated spreadsheet capabilities can easily replace their manual efforts\u2014increasing accuracy and allowing dealers to spend time on more valuable activities,\u201d added Stone.<\/p>\n<p>The new billing format is free to GreatAmerica solution providers and can deliver efficiency gains for those who have been providing similar billing methods through manual in-house processes. This billing option may be particularly helpful to dealers with large customers that have many departments or locations that desire further analysis. Office technology solution providers interested in offering spreadsheet invoicing to their customers should contact their GreatAmerica sales representative at 1-800-234-8787&lt;tel:1-800-234-8787&gt; in order to get scheduled for onboarding.<\/p>\n<p>About GreatAmerica Financial Services<br \/>\nEstablished in 1992, GreatAmerica Financial Services Corporation is a $1.8 billion national commercial equipment finance company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, IA. GreatAmerica provides financing and niche market-focused services in all fifty states and several U.S. Territories. Our commitment to understand the office equipment industry has positioned us as the unparalleled leader in single\u00a0invoice solutions (MPS, Managed IT, and other specialized billing\u00a0options). We also offer innovative non-financial services to help our\u00a0dealers evolve their businesses. GreatAmerica is dedicated to helping\u00a0manufacturers, vendors, and dealers be more successful and keep their\u00a0customers fora\u00a0lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatamerica.com\/\">http:\/\/www.greatamerica.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automated Billing Process Allows Office Technology Dealers to Meet End-User Invoicing Demands (Cedar Rapids, IA)\u2014GreatAmerica Financial Services announced today the release of an automated Excel\u00ae billing platform allowing office technology dealers to provide billing information in a spreadsheet format to their customers. The new invoicing option comes in response to customer demands to easily perform analysis on billing data, such as machine utilization, department breakouts, cost centers and trend analysis for budgeting. \u201cWe want to bill in the way our dealers\u2019 customers want to be billed and this platform gives us the flexibility to do that,\u201d said Tawnya Stone, Vice President, Strategic Partner Technology, GreatAmerica Financial Services. Trends in the past few years with big data have sparked increased interest by end users to access their raw data and manipulate in the way they want, requiring many dealers to manually enter billing details into spreadsheets. \u201cWe\u2019ve heard from dealers that the data entry can take up to 30 minutes per customer per invoice. In addition to creating a time savings for our dealers, anything that is manual increases the opportunity for errors. Our automated spreadsheet capabilities can easily replace their manual efforts\u2014increasing accuracy and allowing dealers to spend time on more valuable activities,\u201d added Stone. The new billing format is free to GreatAmerica solution providers and can deliver efficiency gains for those who have been providing similar billing methods through manual in-house processes. This billing option may be particularly helpful to dealers with large customers that have many departments or locations that desire further analysis. Office technology solution providers interested in offering spreadsheet invoicing to their customers should contact their GreatAmerica sales representative at 1-800-234-8787&lt;tel:1-800-234-8787&gt; in order to get scheduled for onboarding. About GreatAmerica Financial Services Established in 1992, GreatAmerica Financial Services Corporation is a $1.8 billion national commercial equipment finance company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, IA. GreatAmerica provides financing and niche market-focused services in all fifty states and several U.S. Territories. Our commitment to understand the office equipment industry has positioned us as the unparalleled leader in single\u00a0invoice solutions (MPS, Managed IT, and other specialized billing\u00a0options). We also offer innovative non-financial services to help our\u00a0dealers evolve their businesses. GreatAmerica is dedicated to helping\u00a0manufacturers, vendors, and dealers be more successful and keep their\u00a0customers fora\u00a0lifetime. http:\/\/www.greatamerica.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[2678],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18715,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18711\/revisions\/18715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}