4EXCHANGE
Document conversion
When you start working with the 4Exchange platform to have every receiving document converted in real time to a uniform data standard, suppliers will need to be informed about this.
The strength of the 4Exchange platform lies in its outsourcing. Suppliers can therefore continue to send the documents they were already sending through their preferred channels. But for certain document types, the receiving address will be different.
INFORM
Phased onboarding
of vendors
To make the 4Exchange engine work, we are notifying and onboarding your vendors on the 4Exchange platform. For some suppliers nothing will change. For another part only the delivery addresses of the documents will have to be changed and we will test this.
To make this process fast and adequate, we approach suppliers in phases (in person and digitally). We start with the suppliers who are responsible for the most volume or ensure the most time in the processing.
VERSION
Digital transformation
of the supply chain
Supplier onboarding also presents an opportunity. Of course, 4Exchange stands for outsourcing; parties do not have to change their procedures. This is what makes the 4Exchange solution so strong.
But we can control onboarding. It offers suppliers a chance to take their own working methods to the next level. For example, by delivering invoices in a certain XML format.
This in turn has a positive effect on the 4Exchange engine and thus also on the speed and quality of the data stream that 4Exchange delivers.
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Does 4Exchange offer e-billing?
Yes. E-billing or electronic invoicing, involves sending and receiving invoices in a particular data format. E-billing is the core of 4Exchange. 4Exchange converts various invoice formats, including PDF, to a data format (many-to-one), and vice versa, that is, from a data format to one or more invoice formats (one-to-many).
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Can 4Exchange handle PDF invoices?
Yes. We convert machine-readable and non-machine-readable PDF invoices to a data format. And we convert a data format to any PDF form, should a debtor require it.
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Can we say goodbye to OCR?
Yes. The 4Exchange platform itself uses OCR technology, among other things, to extract information in PDF invoices. outsourcing by 4Exchange implies that you no longer have to do this yourself.
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Is 4Exchange also a Peppol Access Point?
Yes, we are a Peppol Access Point. If you are looking for only a Peppol solution, however, we are a less suitable party. Our platform is a much better fit for more complex administrations. For example, if you send invoices to many different companies, not all of which have to work in accordance with Peppol, for example, then we would be happy to get in touch with you.
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Should we adjust our financial administration ?
No. The 4Exchange platform works between your systems and various billing channels, including e-m,ail programs, e-invoicing networks and SFTP environments. Conversions and validations take place in the platform. So you can just keep using your invoice processing systems and billing .
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Is cooperation from suppliers or customers required?
A little bit. Suppliers and customers can continue to work with their systems and practices. Suppliers will only have to send their invoices to a new address and indicate whether they can also send invoices directly as e-invoices. And customers will need to specify how they wish to send invoices receiving. We are taking the lead in onboarding suppliers and customers.
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Does 4Exchange offer more than invoice receiving and invoice delivery?
Yes. Our sister companies within the 4CEE group specialize in both processing (coding, matching) received invoices and invoicing (preparing, following up) to customers. So we are very familiar with the playing field of accounts payable and accounts receivable.
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Is 4Exchange limited to invoices?
No. In addition to invoices, we also process related documents in purchase to pay and order to cash processes, such as credit notes, purchase orders and order confirmations. So you can bring the entire flow of "commercial documents" to us.