BlackLine Invoice-to-Cash Reviews & Product Details

BlackLine’s AI-driven Invoice-to-Cash platform ensures clients can invoice, collect, and apply customer payments faster using intelligent automation to achieve operational excellence. Digitally transform the invoice-to-cash process and optimize cash flow, boost profitability, mitigate risks, attain strategic flexibility, strengthen customer relationships, and generate shareholder value. BlackLine customers trust us to partner with them to achieve operational excellence. We blend technology with expert experience to create a proven blueprint for success. Here is what you can expect from each solution in our invoice-to-cash suite. eInvoicing & Payments: Empowers users with a self-service portal and online payments that streamline operations and enhance customer satisfaction. Our solution ensures accurate and compliant invoice delivery by seamlessly integrating with relevant tax authority systems as needed, allowing for the secure archiving and delivery of invoices per tax mandates and regulatory requirements. Seamlessly integrate with EDI systems and Accounts Payable (AP) platforms, automating invoice delivery without intervention. Cash Application: AI-driven matching achieves an average of 85% auto-application rate, significantly reducing manual effort and increasing efficiency. Intelligent remittance management is utilized for over 50% of necessary remittances in multiple data formats (lockbox, pdf, excel, and email), significantly decreasing user workload. The system can still find and apply a unique automated invoice-level application where a customer doesn't provide a remittance. Leverages pre-built, AI-driven auto-matching rules developed and refined from extensive customer deployments, enabling quicker and more efficient implementation focused on configuration, not customization Collections Management: Utilize multiple dynamic collection strategies to prioritize tasks based on collection and risk strategies, ensuring clarity on critical actions and improving user focus on high-impact activities. Automate customer communication based on defined policies and preferred contact methods, streamlining the collections process. Generate reports that measure the success of collection strategies and align actions with results, providing actionable insights. Define customer segments based on any data element, including risk information, allowing for targeted and effective collection efforts. Credit & Risk Management: Integrating real-time data from credit agencies, insurers, and payment performance metrics for a comprehensive view of customer creditworthiness. Dynamic customer segmentation enables proactive risk management by monitoring attribute changes in real-time, ensuring timely decision-making. Automated credit policies enhance efficiency through real-time monitoring and credit limit reviews, reducing manual workload and allowing for strategic analysis. With pre-defined risk policies, the solution ensures rapid implementation while maintaining the flexibility to customize policies as needed for greater adaptability. Disputes & Deductions Management: The automated workflow streamlines invoice dispute resolution by logging, monitoring, and analyzing issues for faster resolution. Seamless integration with ERP and CRM platforms maintains existing workflows, minimizing disruption and ensuring easy adoption. Supporting documentation is consolidated for comprehensive dispute context, expediting resolution. BlackLine Cash Application automates payment allocation and deduction handling by interpreting remittance advice, categorizing deductions with reason codes, and sending automated journal entries to the general ledger for accurate financial reporting and swift processing AR Intelligence: Provides real-time access to growing AR data, enabling immediate insights for better decision-making. It offers deep visibility into customer behaviors, sales trends, and payment performance to identify key correlations and risks. Predictive payment analysis helps assess payment reliability and the impact of terms on cash flow. Additionally, enhanced data-driven collaboration with treasury, commercial, and sales teams—along with customer attractiveness scoring—supports stronger account management and strategic decision-making.