Fully Managed AP for Sage ERP: Turning Accounts Payable into a Profit Center
Fully Managed AP for Sage ERP: Turning Accounts Payable into a Profit Center Most finance teams know how messy accounts payable can get. The invoices stack up. The approvals stall. The vendors get impatient. And somehow, no matter how hard your team works, payments still feel reactive, more like putting out fires than following a real strategy. For Sage ERP users, this experience is all too common. You’ve invested in a powerful ERP platform, but your AP process still depends on manual uploads, scattered emails, and workflows that only work because someone’s bending over backwards to hold them together. That shouldn’t be the norm. AP has long been treated as a back-office function – a cost of doing business. But there’s a shift happening. Forward-thinking finance leaders are starting to ask better questions: What if AP could do more than push payments out the door? What if it could deliver something back? That’s where fully managed AP comes in. And for Sage ERP users, it’s a move that pays off. The Cost of Keeping AP on Life Support Every day spent managing AP manually is a day spent missing out. When your team is stuck entering invoice data by hand, chasing signatures, and cutting physical checks, you’re paying for it in more ways than one. First, there are the obvious costs: labor, materials, missed early-payment discounts. But there’s also the mental drag: the toll of fixing late payments, responding to vendor concerns, and dealing with payment errors that should never have happened in the first place. Even with an ERP in place, the gaps remain. If you’re toggling between systems, manually uploading files, or hoping approvals land where they need to, that’s not a process. That’s a workaround. And workarounds break. Here’s what’s really at stake when AP is held together with duct tape:
Processing costs rise with every manual touchpoint
Fraud exposure grows with every check and untracked payment
Cash flow visibility slips when data is spread across emails and spreadsheets
Vendor relationships strain when payments stall or go missing
When you add it all up, the real question isn’t whether you can afford to automate AP. It’s how much longer you can afford not to.
What Fully Managed AP Really Means Fully managed AP is a service model that takes the weight off your team and hands it to a partner that’s built to run AP right, from the first invoice all the way through reconciliation. Corpay handles the entire process. We don’t send you a toolkit and wish you luck. We take ownership of invoice intake, routing, approvals, payments, fraud prevention, vendor communication, and reconciliation, all backed by a real team and integrated directly with your Sage environment. This brings structure, consistency, and expertise to a part of finance that’s been underserved for too long. And yes, it changes the math. Payments leave your bank account and give real dollars back. Picture this:
Your finance team doesn’t have to check every box. The process checks itself.
Your vendors don’t wonder when they’ll be paid. They know.
Leadership doesn’t chase numbers at month-end. They’ve had visibility all along.
Corpay’s fully managed AP for Sage gives you the structure you’ve been missing, without forcing your team to rebuild their workflow or adopt a new platform. You stay in Sage while we take the wheel on AP. It’s a win-win. Meet Corpay at Sage Future 2025 Want to see how this works in the real world? Let’s talk in person. At Sage Future 2025, you’ll get a firsthand look at how fully managed AP works inside Sage. We’ll walk through the process, answer real questions, and show you what kind of financial impact this can have, not just for your team, but for the entire business. You can:
Schedule a 1:1 meeting with one of our AP experts
Stop by booth #8 to see the process in action
Walk away with a clear understanding of what your AP is currently costing you, and what it can look like instead
Whether you’re trying to cut costs, reduce risk, or finally take these stressors off your plate, we’d love to have that conversation. Corpay and Sage are already a strong match. Fully managed AP is what makes that match even stronger.