2025 is a time for reinvention.
Businesses across America are always navigating uncertainty. Whether it’s getting a start-up off the ground, securing capital, adapting to policy and technology shifts, or responding to shifting consumer behavior.
As hard as uncertainty is, there is opportunity in it. With the accelerating pace of change from AI to the dynamic economic landscape, success in 2025 requires a laser focus on making businesses more agile, efficient, modern and strategic. For every business, this is an opportunity to reinvent how you operate, so your teams can work faster, scale smarter, and serve customers in new ways.
This week, BILL unveiled a new wave of innovations to give businesses and accountants more visibility, efficiency, speed and control of financial operations. We’re adding essential procurement capabilities and helping businesses leverage payments and customization to manage and scale to new heights. These new innovations will give businesses better control and visibility of cash flow – the lever they need to unlock growth amidst uncertainty.
Less spreadsheets, more strategy
Legacy spreadsheets and disparate tools are costing American businesses time, money and opportunity they can’t afford – especially this year. Too often I hear from business leaders that they are stuck in a rut of ‘busy work’ – manual processes, fragmented data, sorting spreadsheet tabs and filing paper.
Winning means replacing this busyness with business. One of the most critical steps businesses can take in the face of uncertainty is to reinvent how they run and grow cash flow.
6 in 10 financial leaders say cash flow is their top priority in 2025, almost two-thirds of finance leaders say they can’t improve cash flow or forecast guidance with spreadsheets. BILL is helping businesses Delete ‘Busy’, and level-up their operations.
Automate now to unlock growth
Mark Cuban understands the critical need businesses have for growth. His savvy entrepreneurship and exceptional track record set Mark Cuban Companies (MCC) up for success – but financial automation was a real unlock. When Josh Hull, MCC’s Director of Finance, joined in 2021, his four-person finance team was buried in manual AP and budgeting processes across Mark Cuban’s 100 entities and hundreds of investments. Spreadsheets ruled the day, leaving teams with manual data entry errors, delayed payments reconciliations. Spreadsheets were not only a handbrake on growth for MCC – they created financial, security and strategic vulnerabilities.
With BILL, MCC reinvented how they ran their business. AP and spend and expense management were automated, invoice approvals streamlined, and manual work cut in half. Josh even opened a burn barrel, filled it with two filing cabinets of paper and set fire to it. Most importantly, MCC now has a clear, unified view of their cash flow – not just where their money is now, but where it’s going. BILL has given MCC the power to make better and informed strategic financial decisions to grow and win.
Accounting firms are also stepping up to help clients escape the “quicksand” of fragmented, inaccurate data. In fact, almost three-quarters of accounting firms BILL recently polled have detailed plans to add new technology in the next year. Rehmann, a forward-thinking professional advisory firm with more than 80 years of experience and 1,200 associates, is a prime example. For Rehmann, having control and visibility of their clients’ cash flow is not just about efficiency – it’s a growth strategy. With BILL, Rehmann has expanded their capabilities and transformed their offerings, delivering more client advisory services to support new clients in new ways.
An intelligent platform that powers strategic control and confidence
At BILL, reinvention is our constant. For two decades, we’ve innovated, redefined and reimagined what it means to be the technology partner of choice for businesses and accountants. And this week, we’ve raised the bar higher by equipping businesses to confidently run, grow and succeed in ways that are unmatched.
With the launch of BILL Procurement, we are the first to seamlessly unify robust procure-to-pay workflows with AP, AR, Spend & Expense and Insights & Forecasting in a single, intuitive platform. We’re adding procure-to-pay into BILL’s platform because we believe businesses shouldn’t have to choose between speed and control.
For leaders running multiple businesses, BILL will make it easier to manage cash flow centrally and approve, review and pay bills across different organizations. We’re doing this because we believe businesses with complex needs deserve full financial oversight.
The new BILL API Platform will offer businesses flexibility to integrate and customize our leading financial capabilities within their existing systems. We’re delivering this because we believe growing businesses deserve solutions that are tailored to their needs – just as enterprise companies enjoy.
And BILL will give businesses the ability to pay bills in bulk. Now, they don’t have to worry about death by a thousand paper cuts (or payments) – businesses can pay thousands of bills at the same time with speed, efficiency and accuracy. Because growing businesses are the engine of our economy.
You can learn more about these solutions here.
Investing in the future of your business
The time to automate is now. Reimagine what’s possible when you have control and visibility of your cash flow. Leverage AI to make your organization smarter and more efficient. Empower your teams with the financial clarity and confidence they need. And reinvent how you make strategic financial decisions.
For millions of businesses – from early stage start-ups to multi-generational companies with global footprints – the stakes are high and the urgency is real. Uncertainty may be the catalyst for change, but automating financial operations today is an investment in the future resilience of your business.
BILL is paving the way forward and will be with you every step of the way.
