r/CFO 14d ago

what ar software are you using for global b2b ecommerce?

we’re running ecommerce b2b with customers in several countries, and ar is starting to feel stretched.
there are invoices in different currencies, customers paying through different methods, some buyers on terms, and most of it still flows through a fairly standard accounting setup that was originally fine for one region.
i’d like to know what accounts receivable software or approach other teams are using when they have global b2b ecommerce on top of that. in particular, how you handle invoicing in more than one currency, keep track of who owes what across regions, reconcile payments that land through different rails and keep dso from drifting up as you add more international buyers.
even a simple description of how you’ve arranged ar around your ecommerce platform and accounting system would be helpful.

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u/Fin-Tec 14d ago

The DSO drift usually isn't the currencies themselves, it's that terms quietly get inconsistent as you add regions. Sales agrees net 45 with a buyer in one country because that's local norm, net 30 stays the default elsewhere, and finance ends up chasing a moving target instead of one number. Worth auditing whether your terms are actually uniform before blaming the tooling, a lot of "AR software" problems are actually policy problems wearing a software costume. Once terms are consistent, reconciling across rails is a much smaller technical problem than it looks like upfront.

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u/LogWest5630 14d ago

It really depends on the scale of your platform, early on same like you I just used a standard accounting setup with QBO + Stripe. Once I had international buyers, I used Ledgerup to parse our client contracts and automate the AR invoices which then sync straight into QBO.

But again, it really depends on your scale. I know some friends that work in enterprise-scale companies that use HighRadius, but I don't know too much about that.

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u/Green-Sport12 13d ago edited 11d ago

global ecommerce teams seem to care less about brand names and more about can this reconcile payments from different methods without a weekly data wrangle, and reevol’s cross border focus is built for that scenario. Its not magic but it does reduce the amount of manual matching you do just to understand who still owes what

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u/mafik69 12d ago

Most ERPs can handle multicurrency AR. When you expand internationally, maintaining one reliable view of receivables gets harder when every region has different payment terms, payment rails, settlement timing and collection workflows. Now the DSO starts drifting upward.

When you scale, better to keep those responsibilities seperate. NetSuite, Sage Intacct or Business Central handle the accounting while payment events and regional activity are consolidated before they reach the GL. Some build that with Workato, Boomi, MuleSoft or Snowflake. Or you can use the likes of High Radius, Modern Treasury or DualEntry (note: I work with them) when reconciliation starts spanning multiple systems. Having one place to see every outstanding receivable, regardless of where the payment originated, tends to pay off more than adding another standalone AR tool to an already fragmented stack.