## Happy partners, lower costs, less risk

E2open Payment Services helps you make sure partner payments are accurate, on time, and auditable—so partners stay happy while minimizing risk. It’s a simpler way to automate payments that helps ensure compliance and peace of mind.

## Manual reconciliation costs time and money

Paying your partners often involves dealing with incorrect banking details, invoices that are hard to reconcile, missing references, and time-consuming searches through spreadsheets. It’s a painful, error-prone process that often leaves partners dissatisfied and puts brands on the hook for delays and banking fees.

## Automate payments, simplify audits, minimize risk

A managed application that replaces manual reconciliation with efficient, accurate, and timely payments to your partners.

#### Easily process payments

Effectively process partner payments in any currency––and even with incomplete information.

#### Drive partner satisfaction

Send automated alerts to approvers for rejected and returned payments to avoid delays and increase satisfaction.

#### Lower the cost of audit and compliance

See individual transactions and payment batch at partner and program level for audit and regulatory compliance.

#### Minimize business process change

Flexible paying lets you reconcile according to your own processes and reporting requirements.

#### Reduce processing and penalties costs

Streamlined integration with MDF, Rebates and Incentives systems reduce manual intervention, errors, and delays.

#### Safeguard sensitive information

Leverage security and up-to-date compliance features to safely store and protect necessary information.

## Resources

[Infographics & Interactive Content\
**3 Steps to Successful Channel Planning**\
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Knowing what your partners plan to sell, knowing what they plan to do from an enablement and marketing perspective are essential bits of information to drive channel performance.\
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[Solution Briefs\
**Channel Marketing Made Easy for All**\
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E2open’s Channel suite of applications addresses concerns like these with a comprehensive, end-to-end channel marketing solution to drive demand, grow sales, and expand reach in a controlled, predictable, and optimized way.\
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Read More](/content/resources/channel-marketing-made-easy-for-all/index.html)

[Data Sheets\
**Payment Services**\
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Without the help of automation, many challenges can arise when it’s time to pay your channel partners—and costly penalties and processing errors are often the result. Incorrect payment details, delays and missing information can also detract from your ability to successfully track performance and design effective plans.\
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[White Papers\
**Driving Channel Program Success**\
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Channel marketers spend millions each year to engage tiered distribution ecosystems in marketing activities driven by marketing development funds (MDF) programs. Organizations place ever-increasing demands on marketers to drive results from channel program investments and demonstrate them in the form of revenue.\
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Read More](/content/resources/driving-channel-program-success/index.html)

##### Reduced operating costs

From managing and paying partners

##### Fewer bank fees

By aggregating payments

##### Partner satisfaction

With timely and transparent payments