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Bento for Business Expands Leadership Team with Key Executive Hires; Appointments Follow Record Year of Growth

CFO Paula Bachman and CMO Tracy Hansen bring deep expertise with high-growth B2B businesses Company records significant growth in revenue and business spending on its financial operating platform Chicago & San Francisco, May 30 2019—Bento for Business (“Bento”), a leading provider of B2B payments solutions, today announced two new leadership team hires. Joining Bento are Paula Bachman as Chief Financial Officer and Tracy Hansen as Chief Marketing Officer. Bento created these new executive roles amid an…

Bento Customer Spotlight: Precision Facility Services’s strategy for doubling revenue, halving expenses

By Shuyi Shang | Bento Tips, Business Growth, Customer Spotlight, Finance, Growth, Small Business

Each installment of the Bento Customer Spotlight features a current customer who shares their story of how they run their business, and how Bento plays a part in their success. It was nine o’clock at night when they finally switched off the office lights. The good news was that the company was on a revenue roll. The bad news? So were expenses. Allison Lopez, Chief Operating Officer at Texas-based Precision Facility Services, explains. “Unfortunately our…

Introducing: Your Bento, Only Better

By Shuyi Shang | Company News

We have a new look! We are so excited to unveil the new Bento for Business! It includes a complete redesign of the Bento interface to enhance your experience, plus more useful features to support your business. Watch this video where we show you what we mean: Enhancements included in this redesign: Fresh, streamlined interface. Bento’s beautifully simple interface brings in easier controls and more streamlined workflows, reducing almost every in-app action to two…

Introducing Department: Team-level control over your cards

By Shuyi Shang | Bento Tips, Company News

The Bento for Business team is excited to introduce our newest feature: department! Now live in your account, this feature allows admins and business owners to group Bento cards into departments and assign department leads who can manage the cards. Full-access admins and business owners still retain full control over all aspects of the account (including departments), whereas department leads only have access to the cards and transactions in their own department. What’s great…

Introducing Virtual Card: More Speed, Security and Control

By Shuyi Shang | Company News

The Bento for Business team is excited to introduce virtual cards—now available in your account*! You can manage both your virtual and physical cards on Bento’s convenient desktop + mobile platform, with the same spending controls you know and love. What are virtual cards? Virtual cards are credit or debit cards in digital form. Instead of being physically issued and printed, Bento’s virtual debit cards are instantly generated and stored online in your account. What’s…

Bento Customer Spotlight: A Business (Model) that Delivers

By Shuyi Shang | Business Growth, Customer Spotlight, Growth, Small Business

Welcome to our new blog series: Bento Customer Spotlight! Each installment features a current customer who shares their story of how they built their business, and how Bento plays a part in their success. Whether he realized it or not at the time, Daniel Hernandez spent most of his life preparing to launch his current business, Santa Cruz Deliveries, which he co-owns with his brother Gerardo and his friend Annie. We sat down to…

Bento for Business Partners with Cast & Crew to Reimagine Digital Expense Management for Entertainment Industry

By Shuyi Shang | Company News

Chicago, Oct. 17 2018—Bento for Business, a provider of financial management solutions, today announced a partnership with Cast & Crew, a provider of payroll and human resources, accounting and financial, and workflow and productivity software and services to the entertainment industry. Powered by Bento for Business, Cast & Crew has now added a debit purchasing card and expense-management solution to its existing suite of production accounting solutions, anchored by PSL+ software. Traditionally, the business and…

Bento for Business Appoints Billtrust’s Flint Lane to Board of Directors

By Shuyi Shang | Company News

Distinguished CEO brings extensive fintech and business services expertise to Bento, as company prepares for next stage of growth. Chicago, Oct. 9 2018—Bento for Business, a leading provider of financial management solutions for small and midsize businesses, today announced that Flint Lane has been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors. The appointment reflects Bento’s expansion and continued growth across commercial payments, treasury management and business banking services. As founder and CEO of New Jersey-based…

17 Red Flags Your Client Is Hiding Something

By Shuyi Shang | Accounting, Education, Finance, Small Business

Part of the job of any bookkeeper or tax preparer is to keep an eye out for fraud. Ignoring warning signs in a client’s finances could leave you on the hook for charges related to tax fraud, which could lead to fines, loss of your license to practice, and even (in extreme cases) jail time. But what exactly counts as a “warning sign?” Some are pretty obvious and some are more subtle. Here are 17…

Scaling New Heights… of Inspiration and Community

By Shuyi Shang | Accounting, Company News, Finance, Marketing

by Shuyi Shang, Accounting Community Manager at Bento for Business Last month I attended Scaling New Heights, a popular conference in the accounting industry. The theme was “Tame the Machines,” but what struck me most was the people I met there. And more to the point, I was inspired by how passionate they were about their work and the people they serve. So inspired, in fact, that I wanted to capture some of what…

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