Skip to content
Alert Banner Text Goes Here Alert Banner Text Goes Here Alert Banner Text Goes Here Alert Banner Text Goes Here
Start Now

Make Business-to-Business Payments with Less Risk 

Business Email Compromise is a $55 billion scam, according to the FBI. Weak vendor data security exposes your organization to fraud and financial risk, and that risk is growing all the time.  

Through our Paymode network, which securely processes over $450 billion in payments annually with no fraud, Bottomline holds vendor data securely to reduce that risk. As a result, you can make essential B2B payments with confidence, knowing they’ll be sent to authenticated vendors. Your supplier community benefits from a reduced risk of having their most critical data compromised.  

How Does Bottomline Protect my Vendor Data?

By securing this data at every step. We collect bank account information and other key vendor data like W9 forms, tax identification number (TIN), credit and other financial checks, and compliance with existing “no pay” lists either directly from your system of record or from vendors enrolling in Paymode, and then we validate the data against over 300 data points.  

This ensures that before you ever make a payment, we’ve confirmed the vendor is a legitimate business. Once we have the data, we protect it behind layers of multi-factor authentication, intelligent 24/7 risk analysis, and in-house expertise. Finally, we ensure compliance with security standards like SOC2 and NACHA, ensuring your data is audit ready.  

We hold this data and take on the risk of protecting it, so you don’t have to.  

Why Good Data Management is Critical

Holding vendor data without the benefit of MFA and other key security layers exposes that data to theft and fraud. If a vendor is compromised, the secure, closed Paymode network can ensure a payment isn’t made to a bad actor. Payments automation providers who do not hold this data securely can expose your business to added risk, and you will suffer the negative consequences of that. Using Paymode, however: -  

  • Prevents fraudulent vendors from changing bank accounts 

  • Makes it more difficult for vendor impersonation to work 

  • Helps with data hygiene and reporting  

  • Ensures audit compliance by maintaining up-to-date records  

  • Avoids ruined business relationships caused by fraud and lost data 

 

Secure vendor data means better payments, bigger results

Easy Self Enrollment

Once contacted by our team to let their business know that you intend to pay them through Paymode, a vendor can enroll securely online in just 15-20 minutes. 

FAQs about Vendor Data Management

What is vendor data management in the context of B2B payments?

In the context of Bottomline and business payments, vendor data management refers to the collection, holding, and securing of business information and financial data. That covers data for businesses receiving payments through Bottomline’s suite of solutions, including our secure Paymode network, which we manage on behalf of payer clients.  

Why does Bottomline hold this data?

We hold the data because our closed Paymode network is more secure than in-house systems, and to reduce your business exposure to fraud risk and audit troubles. This also ensures we’re able to quickly process and send payments to vendors based on the most recent and accurate data available.

Is this the same thing as supplier data management?

Yes. Bottomline has long referred to our valued customers as vendors, but the terms vendor and supplier are used interchangeably in this context.

Bottomline Technologies
Testimonials

What Our Customers Say

Bottomline has made processing payments so much faster.

Paymode lowers our cost and time involved with paying vendors, eliminates our maintaining supplier bank account info, and removes the cost of lost checks. AP also earns rebates by paying digitally.

Prev
Next

Get In Touch

Start improving the speed, security, and revenue potential of your vendor payments now. Reach out today.