subject: Electronic Data Interchange Billing [print this page] Having billing processes automated in a standardized structure can make dealing with a courier company a lot easier. No one wants their LA courier to be difficult to deal with, or to make mistakes, which is why looking for these features is a great way to find a courier company that you're going to be happy with over the long term. One of those features that you're going to want to keep an eye out for is EDI 210 billing services, which electronically automates most of the billing activities between you and a courier company.
Billing is one of the last places that you want a mistake to be made. It is there where a mistake can either end up making you overspend, or make you have a critical error in your bookkeeping which can be a nightmare when the time comes to do your final reporting for the quarter or the year. Errors are typically made due to human oversight, so the more that you can automate the billing process, the less chance you have of an error taking place.
Another thing that billing and accounting does is take time. This is one of the most time consuming tasks that has to be completed both by your own staff, and by the staff at the courier company. We all know that the most productive use of time is always in the area that a business is focused on, and not on support tasks. Billing and accounting definitely falls into that support task area, and is a task that we should all aim to reduce the amount of time we spend on it.
From the courier company's standpoint, all of their expenses are part of the calculations that they have to do in order to decide how much to charge for their services. This includes the wages they have to pay staff in order to complete these types of tasks. When these become automated, it saves them time and money, which in the grand scheme of things helps contribute to keeping courier costs reasonable and low.
From your own company's standpoint, you have to worry less about having an employee enter all the data manually into accounting programs. EDI 210 billing programs should usually interface with most popular accounting software to provide you with easy data transference. This means you save money within your business, and on expenses through a courier company that is able to keep costs down.
