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Panel: The Hidden Cost of B2B Payments Is Manual Work, Not Fees

Mary Kay Bowman of BILL and Scott Hess of Cintas say payment modernization is larger than a shift from checks to digital rails. The cost of getting paid in B2B commerce is often hiding in plain sight.

CANONICAL SOURCEPYMNTS
DATE VERIFICATIONVerified: July 17, 2026
CAPTUREDJul 17, 09:22 AM
EVIDENCE TIERB1 · Independent / regulatory corroboration
TRACE IDpanel-the-hidden-cost-of-b2b-payments-is-manual-work-n-63270eed
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Panel: The Hidden Cost of B2B Payments Is Manual Work, Not Fees

Evidence tier: B1 Evidence type: Independent payments trade media report Source: PYMNTS Published: 2026-07-17 Captured: 2026-07-17T13:22:25.944Z

Source summary

Mary Kay Bowman of BILL and Scott Hess of Cintas say payment modernization is larger than a shift from checks to digital rails. The cost of getting paid in B2B commerce is often hiding in plain sight.

Why it matters

This signal matters because it may change cross-border payment economics, distribution, customer access, competitive positioning, or the movement of money between markets.

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Topics and entities

  • Industry lane: Cross-border market
  • Entities: PYMNTS
  • Cross-border payments

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Date evidence: Automatically verified from article:published_time: 2026-07-17T08:03:47+00:00

First-party corroboration

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