Automotive businesses move fast. Dealerships, auto parts suppliers, repair shops, auction companies, and other automotive businesses manage a constant flow of payments to vendors, suppliers, contractors, service providers, and employees. When payment processes are slow or disconnected, accounts payable can quickly become a bottleneck.
Modern automotive payment processing gives businesses a better way to manage those payments—without forcing them to abandon checks.
Checkrun is a cloud-based payment issuance platform designed to help automotive businesses modernize the way they create, approve, print, and send payments. With remote check printing, mobile approvals, Print & Mail services, automated workflows, and Positive Pay file export, Checkrun helps businesses make payment processing faster, more flexible, and more secure.
Why Automotive Businesses Need Modern Payment Processing
Automotive businesses often have complex payment needs. A dealership may need to pay parts suppliers, detailers, contractors, auction houses, service providers, and other vendors. A multi-location business may also have employees or accounting teams working from different offices.
Traditional payment processes can create unnecessary delays:
- Checks have to be printed from a specific office.
- Managers have to be available to approve payments.
- Accounting teams spend time manually handling checks.
- Payments can be delayed when employees work remotely.
- Multiple bank accounts and locations can make payment management more complicated.
- Manual processes increase the risk of errors and fraud.
Automotive payment processing software can help eliminate many of these challenges by bringing payment issuance and approval into one centralized, secure platform.
Modernize the Way You Issue Checks
Checks aren’t going away anytime soon. Many automotive businesses still rely on checks to pay vendors and suppliers, but that doesn’t mean the process has to remain manual.
Checkrun gives businesses multiple ways to issue checks based on how their teams work.
1. Print Checks in the Office
For businesses that handle payments onsite, Checkrun makes it easy to print checks directly from the office.
Accounting teams can create and issue payments without relying on outdated desktop-based processes or being tied to a single workstation.
2. Print Checks Remotely
Today’s automotive businesses aren’t always operating from one location.
With remote check printing, authorized employees can securely issue checks from wherever they are. This can be especially valuable for multi-location dealerships, regional automotive businesses, and accounting teams with remote employees.
Instead of waiting for someone at another location to print and mail a check, payments can move forward when they’re approved.
3. Let Checkrun Print and Mail the Check
Don’t want your team handling printing, envelopes, postage, and mailing?
Checkrun’s Print & Mail service handles the process for you. Checkrun prints and mails checks directly to vendors and payees, helping your accounting team save time on routine payment administration.
Approve Payments From Anywhere
Payment approval shouldn’t have to wait until someone gets back to the office.
The Checkrun mobile app allows authorized users to review, approve, sign, and schedule payments from their mobile devices.
For automotive businesses, this can mean fewer payment delays when managers or owners are away from the dealership or office.
Instead of chasing down signatures or waiting for approvals, your team can keep payments moving.
Automate Automotive Accounts Payable Workflows
Automotive accounts payable can involve multiple people and approval steps. The more manual those processes become, the more opportunities there are for mistakes and delays.
Checkrun’s configurable workflows help businesses establish consistent payment approval processes based on their internal requirements.
That means you can:
- Route payments for approval before they are issued
- Reduce manual data entry and repetitive tasks
- Establish consistent payment procedures
- Give authorized employees control over payment approvals
- Reduce unnecessary delays
- Manage payments across multiple accounts
For businesses with multiple locations or bank accounts, centralized payment management can make it easier to maintain visibility and control.
Improve Payment Security With Positive Pay
Payment fraud is a serious concern for businesses that issue checks.
Checkrun includes Positive Pay file export, allowing businesses to send check information to participating banks for verification before checks are paid.
Positive Pay adds another layer of protection to the check payment process and can help businesses identify unauthorized or altered checks before they become a larger problem.
For automotive businesses issuing a high volume of vendor payments, adding security to the payment process can be an important part of an overall fraud prevention strategy.
Keep Control of Your Cash Flow
Efficient payment processing isn’t just about getting checks out faster. It’s also about maintaining control over when and how payments are issued.
Checkrun allows businesses to issue payments without the need to prefund an ACH file, helping businesses maintain greater control over their cash until payments are processed through their normal banking processes.
That flexibility can be valuable for automotive businesses managing fluctuating expenses, inventory costs, vendor payments, and other operational expenses.
One Payment Platform for Growing Automotive Businesses
As an automotive business grows, payment management can become increasingly complicated.
More vendors.
More locations.
More employees.
More bank accounts.
More approvals.
Checkrun provides a centralized platform for managing payment issuance while giving businesses the flexibility to determine how payments are printed, approved, and delivered.
Whether you’re managing a single dealership, multiple automotive locations, an auto parts operation, or another automotive business, Checkrun helps simplify the payment process without requiring you to completely change the way you pay your vendors.
Modernize Automotive Payment Processing With Checkrun
Your business doesn’t have to choose between traditional checks and modern payment technology.
With Checkrun, automotive businesses can continue using checks while modernizing the processes behind them.
Print checks in the office. Print remotely. Let Checkrun print and mail them. Approve payments from your phone. Automate workflows. Add Positive Pay protection. Manage payments from one centralized platform.
It’s a smarter way to handle automotive payment processing—so your accounting team can spend less time managing payments and more time managing the business.
Put Your Automotive Payment Process in the Fast Lane
Ready to modernize the way your automotive business handles payments?
Schedule a personalized Checkrun demo and see how Checkrun can help simplify check printing, payment approvals, accounts payable workflows, and payment delivery for your business.
