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Case study · Manufacturing
Mid-sized Manufacturer
A mid-sized manufacturer paying about $4.5 million a year to vendors, where the real win is fewer checks, less staff time, and on-time payment.
annual AP spend
invoices per month
vendor card acceptance
projected annual value
The situation
A mid-sized manufacturer pays about 250 vendor invoices a month, roughly $4.5 million a year. Its challenge was never the size of the rebate. Processing paper checks was slow and hard to keep on schedule, which cost staff time and made on-time payment a constant effort.
Where the value is
About 30% of spend goes to vendors that accept card, so the rebate is a modest bonus. Together with late fees avoided, the projected value is about $19,500 a year, and the larger gains are operational: fewer checks to print, sign, and mail, less staff time, and vendors paid when they were promised.
What it looks like on Evie
| Annual AP spend | ~$4.5M |
|---|---|
| Share paid to card-accepting vendors | ~30% |
| Annual card volume | ~$1.35M |
| Card invoices per month | ~75 |
| Rebate rate (Evie calculator) | 1% |
| Projected annual rebate | ~$13,500 |
| Late fees avoided (~$500 a month) | ~$6,000 |
| Projected annual value | ~$19,500 |
Beyond the rebate
- Staff efficiency: payment processing time is cut roughly in half, from about 40 hours a month to about 20.
- Timely payments: average days to pay falls from about 5 to about 2, with payments released on the due date.
- Fewer checks: checks drop from about 250 a month to about 175 as 75 invoices move to card.
- Late fees avoided: about $500 a month ($6,000 a year) in late fees avoided, which adds to the rebate.
Modeled, not realized results. Acceptance rates are observed in the customer’s actual payment runs; the rebate uses the same 1% rate as the Evie rebate calculator on this site, with about 60% of payables assumed card-eligible. Staff-time and payment-timing figures are estimates. Estimates are illustrative, not a guarantee or an offer of specific terms. Figures are rounded and the company name is withheld.
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