What's Holding SMBs Back from Automating Travel, Expense, and Invoice Management

A SAP Concur blog post argues manual and spreadsheet-driven processes are costly and inefficient at any scale, with an even bigger impact on resource-constrained SMBs. It cites data: 26% use spreadsheets to manage expenses, 49% of small businesses still use handwritten records to track spend, accounting and finance staff spend 14% of their time each week processing invoices, 50% of SMBs say manual processes hinder cash flow visibility, 42% report invoice reconciliation errors, and 75% of finance leaders say their business often exceeds expense, travel, and invoice budgets. It groups reasons SMBs haven't automated into four categories and cites AMI-Partners data showing automation yields ave…