Payment Batches That Run Themselves: Mekorma Payment Hub Brings Scheduling to AP in Business Central

Stop Starting Payment Runs by Hand: What Mekorma Payment Hub v1.2 Means for AP Teams on Business Central

For AP teams running Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, the payment cycle follows a familiar rhythm, and not always a convenient one. 

Batch runs get built at the end of the day. Approvals get chased down. Someone logs in on a weekend to keep things moving.

These aren't complex tasks. But they consume real time, and that time adds up.

Mekorma Payment Hub addresses this directly with the introduction of the Action Board Scheduler that lets payment batches run on a defined schedule, automatically, without requiring manual intervention each cycle.

What Changes in Practice

The core shift is straightforward: instead of someone triggering each payment batch manually, teams configure a schedule and the system executes it. Overnight runs, weekend processing, off-hours cycles, all of it happens without anyone needing to log in.

For AP managers, that means the late-day scramble to initiate batch runs goes away. For finance leaders, it means fewer manual touchpoints in a process that was never designed to require them in the first place.

The ROI here isn't theoretical. Every hour your team spends on repetitive execution steps is an hour not spent on exceptions, vendor escalations, cash flow decisions, or the higher-value work that actually benefits from human judgment.

Controls Stay in Place

A common concern with AP automation is what happens to oversight. Mekorma's approach is to make controls configurable, not to remove them.

Approval checkpoints remain exactly where your team needs them. The scheduler handles the mechanical work — building batches, initiating runs, while human review stays embedded in the workflow at the steps that warrant it. You define where automation runs freely and where it waits for sign-off.

The result is a more consistent control environment, not a looser one. Automation applied this way tends to improve compliance, because the process runs the same way every cycle rather than depending on who's available and when.

Part of a Broader Invoice-to-Payment Flow

Scheduling is one piece of a larger direction Mekorma is building toward: a more connected path from invoice posting through to payment, with fewer manual handoffs along the way.

Mekorma Payment Hub v1.2 is designed to work alongside invoice capture solutions, so that once an invoice is posted in Business Central, the subsequent steps keep moving without requiring someone to bridge each stage manually. Less waiting, fewer delays, and a cleaner end-to-end flow.

The Bottom Line

For organizations running AP on Business Central, Mekorma Payment Hub v1.2 offers a practical way to recover time that's currently being spent on process maintenance rather than process improvement.

Scheduled payment runs. Configurable approvals. Fewer manual steps between invoice and payment.

It won't transform your AP department overnight, but it will eliminate some of the tasks that never needed to be manual to begin with, and free your team to focus on the work that does.

To learn more or get started, get Mekorma Payment Hub from the Microsoft AppSource Marketplace or reach out to [email protected].