Why Payable Workflows Are Broken (And How to Fix Them)

Most developers treat the 'Payable' side of a business application as a simple CRUD operation—just another row in a database to be marked as paid. But if you have ever spent a week debugging why an inventory count doesn't match the general ledger, you know that accounts payable is actually the most dangerous part of a business stack. When we build business software, we often isolate the purchase order from the payment. This is a mistake. The moment you decouple the financial obligation from the...