AllBusiness.com Readers Rate AP/AR Software

In July, 2006, we surveyed you, the readers of AllBusiness.com, to find out which AR/AP systems you have used in your businesses and how you liked them. This was not a scientific poll, but a reader survey, open to anyone who chose to respond. Here are the results, culled from 232 responses.

1. Type of AP/AR System

As we suspected, the highest proportion of your colleagues, more than 4 out of every 10 readers of AllBusiness.com who answered our survey, manage AR/AP in-house, using software. About 1 in every 5 still uses a manual AR/AP system, more than we expected. Relatively few, 1 in 20, outsource the management of AR/AP.

How Do You Manage Your AP/AR?

• In-house, using software — $41%
• In-house, using a manual system — 22%
• Outsourced — 5%
• NA/No AR/AP system used — 12%
• Don't know — 20%