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Welcome to PayMode®, Fleet’s market-leading electronic business payment solution. PayMode is a proven solution that enables businesses to send and receive electronic payments, along with detailed remittance information, to and from suppliers and customers.

PayMode helps enhance business performance — improving profitability and competitiveness, fueling growth and driving your company's success. PayMode can lower administrative costs, create a more efficient business process, strengthen relationships with suppliers and customers, and enable more efficient management of working capital.

Created in the mid-1990s, the first generation of this electronic payment technology was developed to reduce payment and processing costs for businesses, banks and the U.S. government. In 1998, the technology was used successfully to transact secure payments between the U.S. Treasury and its vendors over the Internet. Since then, the original technology has been surpassed with the development of PayMode -- a complete electronic business payment solution created to support the evolving demands of modern commerce.

A better way to conduct business.
Every business professional knows that maximizing profitability and competitiveness means reducing costs and finding sustainable competitive advantage. There is one activity — performed by every company, regardless of size or industry — where real opportunity exists to accomplish this: Payments.

You may be spending unnecessary time and money in the process of making payments to your suppliers and vendors, adding significant costs to your purchases.
   
High, hidden costs incurred in the collection and reconciliation of payments for the sale of products and services may be diluting your margins.
   
You may be forgoing a significant opportunity to build stronger, more advantageous relationships within your supply and demand chains.

Each year in the United States, roughly nine billion paper checks, representing 84% of all business payments, are written to settle transactions between vendors and suppliers and their customers. But processing a paper check can cost $5-$10 or more, often incurred both by you and your vendor or customer. And those are just the obvious costs. Significant opportunity costs created by the inherent inefficiencies of processing paper checks include vendor discounts not taken, exposure to fraud and less-than-optimal trade terms.

And, few of today’s existing payment methods can fully provide the sophisticated payment remittance data required to efficiently reconcile business-to-business payments, resulting in ongoing and unnecessary costs in systems, staff and bank fees.

PayMode provides the efficiency and cost-effectiveness today’s commerce demands…with the predictability and certainty that helps you to be more competitive, increase profitability and enhance your company’s performance. Once your company is using PayMode, you reduce your cost of doing business. That’s why PayMode is a better way to make and receive business-to-business payments today.

How can PayMode benefit your business?
By improving the way you make and receive business payments over traditional payment methods like paper checks and older electronic payment technologies …and by doing it faster, easier and less expensively!

PayMode fully transmits both payment and detailed remittance information digitally, from buyer to seller, beginning to end. With leading edge security at every step. Helping save your company substantial time and money over other existing payment options. And PayMode works with any bank account.

When using PayMode, you can link with your suppliers and customers to make and receive payments with them online — without altering your existing accounts payable or accounts receivable system, your business process or your banking relationships.

PayMode works with any bank and integrates quickly and easily with any ERP system or accounting software. We also help you realize value quickly by signing up suppliers, vendors, service providers and customers on your behalf with our successful Accelerated Enrollment Program.

Enroll Now.
PayMode couples electronic payment with rich remittance information — a solution that’s secure, convenient and certain. It's where your business needs to be.

To start the online enrollment process right away, just click on the Enroll link. You can see exactly how PayMode works on our Flash demo. Or read further through this site to learn more about the advantages PayMode brings to your business.




 

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