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Accounts payable in St. Clair County

Every late fee and double payment is money you earned and handed back for nothing.

Every bill for St. Clair County businesses entered, checked and paid on time, with your approval on each payment run.

3,001

Businesses in st. clair county

Listings a customer can find here

30%

Licensed

Matched to a State of Michigan license

72,251

Google reviews held

Across every one of them here

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St. Clair County

Accounts payable for a business in St. Clair County

A supplier in St. Clair County calls on a Monday morning to say your account is on hold, right before a busy week. The bill was sitting in an email you never opened, and while you dig for it you notice you paid another vendor twice last month.

With accounts payable handled, every bill comes to one inbox, gets entered and checked against what you ordered, and lands in a pay queue on its due date. You get one short list each week, approve it from your phone and the payments go out.

Vendors start treating you like a priority account. Late fees disappear, duplicates get caught before they happen, and at year end the 1099s are nearly done because every vendor's W-9 was collected the day they were set up.

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Signs you need accounts payable

Tap the ones that sound like your week.

The St. Clair County business market

3,001 businesses operate in St. Clair County. Clean numbers and steady systems are what let one of them pull ahead.

St. Clair County at a glance

Residents
160,221
U.S. Census population
Homes
72,799
U.S. Census housing units
Typical home built
1975
U.S. Census median year
Median home value
$224,600
U.S. Census owner-occupied homes

St. Clair County against Metro Detroit

Businesses here (dark bars) and across the six counties (light bars).

With a website
25% 29%

St. Clair County first, Metro Detroit below

With Google reviews
20% 15%

St. Clair County first, Metro Detroit below

Average Google rating
4.6 4.5

St. Clair County first, Metro Detroit below

The most reviewed businesses in St. Clair County

The names a customer compares you with, by Google review count.

  1. 1 Walmart Supercenter 5,005 Google reviews
  2. 2 Birchwood Mall 3,777 Google reviews
  3. 3 Meijer 3,523 Google reviews
  4. 4 Raven Café 3,474 Google reviews
  5. 5 Lowe's Home Improvement 2,833 Google reviews

What accounts payable fixes for businesses in St. Clair County

  • I pay late fees on bills I could have paid on time.
  • I lost a good supplier's terms because we kept paying late.
  • I have no idea what I owe this week until someone calls.
  • Writing checks and chasing W-9s eats a big piece of my office's week.

What the accounts payable work includes

  • One inbox for every bill and invoice
  • Bill entry and coding in QuickBooks or your accounting software
  • Weekly payment runs you approve from your phone
  • Duplicate and price checks against orders or contracts
  • Vendor setup with W-9 collection
  • Year-end 1099 preparation and filing support

How accounts payable runs, step by step

  1. 1

    Collect the bills

    We set up one inbox and point your vendors to it.

  2. 2

    Enter and check

    Each bill is entered, coded and checked for duplicates or odd charges.

  3. 3

    Approve and pay

    You approve a weekly list and payments go out by ACH, card or check.

  4. 4

    Close the loop

    Payments are recorded, vendor balances are reconciled and W-9s stay on file.

What we report every month: Bills paid on time, Late fees paid, Duplicate or incorrect bills caught, and Open vendor balances.

Accounts payable explained for businesses in St. Clair County

What accounts payable outsourcing covers

Accounts payable is everything between a bill arriving and the vendor getting paid: collecting it, checking it, coding it, getting approval and recording the payment. When it is outsourced, you still approve every dollar. You just stop doing the clerical work around it.

Bill pay software and approvals

Tools like BILL, QuickBooks bill pay and Ramp let a bill be entered once, routed for approval and paid electronically. The software is only as good as its setup and the person keeping it current. We set up the tool that fits your volume and run it every week.

What drives the cost of accounts payable services

The number of bills each month, the number of vendors and how much checking each bill needs drive most of the cost. Matching bills to purchase orders or contracts takes more time than paying simple monthly bills. We quote a fixed monthly fee after a look at a typical month.

Paying vendors on time without draining cash

Paying on time does not mean paying early. A good AP process pays each bill on its due date, takes early pay discounts only when they are worth it and lines payment runs up with when cash comes in. Vendors get paid when promised and your account is not drained the day a bill arrives.

1099s and vendor records for a business

If you pay contractors or certain service providers, you likely need to send them 1099s each January. That is easy when a W-9 is collected the day a vendor is set up and painful when it is not. We keep vendor records current so year end is a report, not a chase.

Accounts payable options compared

Paying bills yourself

Full control, but bills slip through on busy weeks and the late fees add up.

A full-time AP clerk

Makes sense at high volume, and a lot of cost when there are only a few hours of bills a week.

Rebuild Detroit

Every bill collected, checked and queued for your approval each week, for a fixed monthly fee.

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Tevin Jackson, founder of Rebuild Detroit

Who you are dealing with

Tevin Jackson, founder of Rebuild Detroit

Before Rebuild Detroit, Tevin Jackson helped scale more than 100 home service brands with marketing, sales and operations. Business Services is that playbook, run for St. Clair County businesses with the local numbers on this page, by the team behind the Rebuild Detroit directory.

  • Detroit real estate investor
  • Author of Against All Odds and The Spark
  • Helped scale 100+ home service brands

Accounts payable questions from St. Clair County businesses

5 questions

How much does accounts payable outsourcing cost?
It depends on how many bills and vendors you have and how much checking each bill needs. After looking at a typical month, we quote a fixed monthly fee.
Do I still approve payments?
Yes, always. You get a weekly list of what is due and approve it from your phone or computer, and nothing goes out without your OK.
Which software do you use for bill pay?
We work in QuickBooks Online and bill pay tools like BILL and Ramp, and we can work in what you already use. If nothing is in place, we recommend what fits your volume and set it up.
Can you handle 1099s?
Yes. We collect W-9s when vendors are set up, track payments through the year and prepare the 1099 information for filing in January.
What if a vendor bill looks wrong?
We flag it before it is paid and, with your OK, reach out to the vendor to sort it out. Catching a bad bill before payment is a lot easier than getting a refund after.