Slow e-invoicing adoption is down to
corporates’ reluctance to change their payment behaviour and is not
the fault of the technology available in the market.
Rolant Prins, CCO of Dutch-based e-commerce
solutions provider Adyen made the claim to Electronic Payments
International arguing e-invoicing is something both the
payments industry and corporates have been talking about for over
ten years yet the momentum to adoption is still evidently painfully
slow to build.
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“We know e-invoicing is something that will
happen in a big way in the future but we have not thrown all our
weight behind building an e-invoicing solution as we know adoption
rates are very slow,” said Prins.
He adds corporates underestimate a consumer’s
willingness to pay for goods and services via e-invoicing and
claims they are more ready to adopt the payment method than some
organisation think.
“It is a no-brainer for consumers,” says Prins.
Adyen launched its e-invoicing solution in
November 2010 and is currently running pilots with mobile network
operator Vodafone and postal delivery service Dutch Post.
Prins claims all is not lost, however, and
thanks in part to such pilots, there is movement towards
e-invoicing – something he says will accelerate in 2012.
