Payment Automation
Automate your AP payment processing with MHC NorthStar to be in full control and to lower your costs. Discover even more with Payments Plus (with Paymode® embedded).
Why Optimize AP Payment Processing with MHC?
MHC NorthStar Payment Automation reduces errors, enhances security, tightens financial controls, and saves on bank fees. It’s a smart move for large and growing businesses. In addition, our Payments Plus solution will generate monthly rebates, creating a return on your AP spend.
More Control Over Payments
Automated payment processing provides greater control over payment timing, boosts AP efficiency, reduces costly delays from human errors, and facilitates early payment discounts.
Fewer Payment Errors
Manual invoice and payment processing invites errors like duplicate payments, overpayments, and underpayments. Automation eliminates these costly mistakes and relieves strain on vendor relationships.
Less Payment Fraud
Payment fraud, both internal and external, can take various forms. An automated system that tracks transactions and flags exceptions simplifies the detection of fake invoices, data theft, overpayments, and other fraudulent activities.
Rebate-Eligible Transactions
Lower Costs Per Transaction
Automation streamlines electronic transactions, reducing costs associated with paper checks and ACH transactions. High-volume businesses benefit significantly.
Better Visibility and Data Insights
An automated AP system provides valuable financial data for assessing overall business operations, identifying inefficiencies, and driving necessary process improvements.
Improved Vendor Visibility into Payment Status
Vendor inquiries, a frequent occurrence with manual processes, can be time-consuming for your AP department. Automation reduces these incidents, allowing your AP team to reclaim valuable time.
Unified Workflow
Users can manage approvals, execution, and payment tracking within the unified MHC NorthStar platform – eliminating the need for multiple portals.
“ MHC offers solutions to streamline business processes that take your efficiency to the next level. They truly care about their customers and go above and beyond to ensure that the products they offer function well. ”
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How Can MHC Streamline
Your Payment Processing?
MHC solutions automatically interface with your ERP system to collect data and convert it into secure financial transactions. Those transactions are supplemented by legible, business-facing payment documents that can be easily and automatically distributed to streamline interactions with vendors.
Payment Processing Key Features and Functionality
Automated Document Distribution
Automatically deliver documents like remittance advice via email or self-service, reducing inquiries and enhancing productivity for your organization and vendors.
Branded Negotiable
Documents
With MHC, configure branded documents, like AP checks with positive pay files, for clear and effective communication with your vendors. Provide valuable insights tailored to each payment, surpassing generic solutions.
Electronic
Payments
MHC configures electronic payments to meet your bank requirements, eliminating custom interfaces and consulting costs, supporting your digital transformation cost-effectively.
Rebates &
Advanced Security
Our Payments Plus solution (with Paymode® embedded) will enable rebates on Premium ACH and virtual card payments, as well as multi-layered security (multi-factor verification, OFAC screening, and continuous monitoring) for the highest level of payment protection.
Secure Remote
Print
Remote printing of sensitive documents like AP checks can be costly and complex. MHC’s secure remote print solution offers user authentication, data and document encryption, and secure release methods. It empowers shared service center administrators to manage remote location document printing effectively.
Financial
Transactions
Effortlessly meet bank interface requirements for virtual cards, wires, or other financial transactions. Streamline payments and maintain standardization in your ERP system to boost savings.
PAYMENT REBATES WEBINAR
How Modern Manufacturers Turn Accounts Payable into Revenue
Thursday | June 4, 2026 | 12 p.m. CT
AP does not have to be a cost center. Whether you are already using MHC NorthStar or evaluating better ways to run AP, manufacturers now have a way to earn rebates on everyday supplier payments while cutting processing time and eliminating fraud risk. Join MHC’s Blaine Sanderson and Bottomline’s Kevin Monroe to see how modern payments transform AP into a measurable source of value.
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Ready to see how MHC NorthStar can automate your accounts payable process from invoice to pay?
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Power Up Your Payments with Integrated Invoice Automation
Invoices and payments go hand in hand, and that’s where MHC’s automated invoice processing comes to the rescue for your AP team. With automation enhancing each invoice’s journey, integrating it into your AP process is a breeze. By combining payment and invoicing with our automated solution, you’ll simplify communication and bid farewell to errors and delays that come with human touchpoints.
Create Invoice Transactions Automatically
Each approved invoice is automatically integrated into your ERP system for payment processing. It follows your rules and schedule, with alerts for human review when necessary.
Report On Invoice Status
If an invoice is delayed due to validation errors or approval holdups, MHC automation keeps you informed, preventing costly service disruptions and strained vendor relationships.
Monitor Payment Status
Once paid by your AP process, invoice payment data is promptly updated in your automated system, ensuring real-time status accuracy. You’ll receive instant notifications of posted payments.
How Customers Succeed with MHC Software:
Industry:
Healthcare
Location:
Mid-Atlantic
United States
Size:
15K+ employees across a multi-site care network
Primary Use Case:
AP payment optimization for virtual card and premium ACH with rebate generation
Scale:
$1.5B+ in AP spend managed by MHC
Administrator
Government Administration
” MHC has proven to be a great software that has helped us with our financial documents.
This software creates bank files for our invoices and payroll. It also formats financial data into easy-to-read documents that can be read online or emailed. “
Dan Boehm
Greenville County Schools Education
” Our employees use MHC to view and print their Deposit Advices and W-2s. We have eliminated printing almost all of our paychecks, travel reimbursement checks, and W-2s. ”
George Gallagher
Sr. Benefits Analyst HR
Geisinger Health
” MHC merged and transformed data from numerous sources and delivered the output I wanted. ”
Edward Corbett
Hospital & Health Care
” Software is very easy to set up and maintain. “
” I have found MHC products to be consistently reliable.
We no longer print pay stubs (…) As we have over 10,000 employees this is a great savings in time with the manual printing and handling of pay stubs. Secure invoice, purchase order, statements and checks for over 100 locations across our school district. “
Efficient invoice processing and check printing.
Cox Health reduced its invoice processing time by more than half, freeing up headcount for more value-added tasks and allowing for increased scalability and productivity.
