If you are encountering more suppliers that want to surcharge, this article is for you.

There is often a fine line between necessary and extravagant.

In the evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI), you can no longer rely on voices or videos to ensure a request is legitimate. One company learned this lesson the hard way.

See a two-minute video clip demonstrating how to use the conditional formatting option in Microsoft Excel to help identify potential fraud.

A lesson to learn from the Jacksonville Jaguars’ internal fraud case

See a crazy story about how one organization handles checks, as well as a list of the check costs you should evaluate for your own organization.

Does your card program have the same control weaknesses that have helped cardholders commit fraud at other organizations?

Grow your virtual card program by helping your suppliers. The supplier side of the equation is not always easy, but it can be. Check out this new solution that they can use no matter the virtual card brand used by their customers.

Effectively addressing sales and use tax requirements for a U.S. card program is one of those foundation elements that can nag at an organization for years. This is why Recharged Education invited industry veteran Robin Anderson to share her insight.

P-Card compliance issues or too many basic mistakes might not be the cardholders’ fault. It could be due to the training program that overlooks a certain group of employees.

AP can, and should, have a prominent voice in the development and execution of an organization’s payment strategy. This includes leadership responsibilities for card programs. See the roles they can fulfill for program success.

Despite the proven value of P-Cards, some decision-makers still resist them, preferring the traditional P2P process for everything. What if an organization’s AP automation solution offers auto-approve functionality for invoices? Will it mark the end for P‑Cards? See what Recharged Education has to say.

An annual part of P-Card program housekeeping, as well as an organization’s broader payment strategy, is to identify goals for the new year. To help you move forward, this post offers four tips.

Is your P-Card program ready for the new year ahead? Recharged Education offers a list of annual housekeeping tasks to assist you in keeping your program on track.

My senior citizen neighbor was about to go to his bank to initiate a $4000 payment, per the request of a man who he thought was a helpful investment banker. This post is a departure from the usual B2B payments focus because the topic of elder fraud is so important. See what happened, along with tips you can share with the seniors in your life.

Slow invoice approvals and slow P-Card transaction review are two common issues. What can you do? The answer, as described in this post, also helps reduce the volume of invoices in AP and minimize the time-wasting activity of correcting every coding error.

The development of a payment strategy is a project that often languishes at the bottom of a to-do list. Everyone might agree with the concept, but no one steps up to drive the initiative. Begin by answering the questions in this post. This will guide you on who should be involved with a payment strategy project.

When it comes to payments, I have some unpopular opinions. This post addresses three of them, which pertain to: employee expense reimbursements, surcharges for card payments, and rebates. Also included are some suggestions for organizations.

Many organizations mistakenly think that, because their employees are all nice people, internal fraud will not happen. Based on a recent fraud protection panel, this post notes common risks, a new excuse an employee might use to hide personal purchases, and tips you should be putting into practice.

Virtual cards are not just for invoice payments by accounts payable anymore. They can play a vital role in business travel. Learn how they have inherent advantages over physical plastic or even traditional ghost accounts.

If only one employee is assigned the responsibility and system access to accomplish various card program management tasks, it opens the door to potential risks. See three controls that every organization should establish, regardless of staff size.

Cash is king, but in a B2B world, the digital equivalent is real-time payments (RTPs). See how the growing awareness and usage of RTPs might impact card programs.

With the increasing popularity of Virtual Cards pushed to employees’ mobile wallets, does this signal an end to plastic? See how these cards can benefit your organization and what the future might be for plastic cards.

Organizations do not always pay their suppliers as intended, thereby causing inefficiencies and/or lost savings. One example is when a “P-Card vendor” is paid by AP via a different method. Uncover the gaps in your payment strategy.

You have heard this common advice: Benchmark your P-Card process costs and savings against your peers. However, more often than not, this exercise paints a false picture of your program. Learn why and what you can do instead.

More than $12M stolen over six years. See what happened, including an unusual source for money laundering, and the control gaps that allowed the fraud to occur. A resource from Recharged Education could have helped prevent this.

An internal audit of a public sector entity revealed an array of questionable purchases. See the control gaps that likely created the problem.

A vendor’s MCC might be overly vague or, worse yet, inaccurate, but do you know where your card program might get tripped up? Gambling and Venmo are two examples.

Two Commercial Card actions your organization should have done or should be doing now; continued inertia is not the answer.

Should popular “consumer merchants” be used for business purposes? The answer is not always a simple yes or no. You should evaluate the risks and potential controls, and then update your policies accordingly. See related tips.