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What does Argentic do?
Argentic is a receive-side B2B payments platform for suppliers. It captures payment and remittance information from emails, portals, bank files, and payment systems; normalizes the data; matches payments to open receivables; routes exceptions; and prepares export-ready or ERP-ready accounting output.
Is Argentic an accounts receivable automation platform?
Argentic overlaps with cash application and AR automation, but its wedge is more specific: the messy work between a buyer sending payment and a supplier completing clean accounting. It is designed to work across payment methods, buyer portals, remittance formats, banks, and ERPs rather than treating the invoice or the payment rail as the whole problem.
Which payment methods can Argentic support?
Argentic is designed to be payment-method neutral. The receive-side workflow can cover virtual card and other card-funded payments, ACH, check, wire, RTP, online payments, and remittance-driven flows. The goal is a clean supplier outcome regardless of which rail the buyer selects.
How does Argentic use AI agents?
Agents handle variable, unstructured work such as reading remittance emails and PDFs, navigating portals, reconstructing payment context, recommending matches, and preparing actions. Deterministic rules, confidence thresholds, permissions, approvals, provenance, and audit trails govern higher-authority actions such as payment acceptance and ERP posting.
Does Argentic replace an AP platform or ERP?
No. Argentic is the bridge between buyer-side payment systems and supplier-side accounting outcomes. It complements AP platforms, banks, payment networks, processors, and ERPs by completing receive-side work that often remains manual after payment initiation.
What is receive-side payment automation?
Receive-side payment automation is the workflow a supplier uses after a buyer initiates payment: capture the payment notice and remittance, process the selected payment method, match funds to invoices, investigate fees or short-pays, reconcile settlement, and post the result to accounting with a traceable record.
How does Argentic help AP platforms and payment partners?
Argentic reduces supplier-side friction that can limit digital payment adoption. By making virtual card and other payment flows easier to receive, reconcile, and post, it can help partners improve supplier activation, straight-through processing, acceptance durability, support load, and monetized payment volume without owning each supplier’s full AR workflow.
Have a more specific workflow question?
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Start with the receive-side workflow creating the most manual work. Argentic can help you map a practical path from payment receipt to clean accounting output.