FAO (finance & accounting outsourcing) reduces your back office costs, overhead and frustrations.

API Outsourcing is an FAO company that reduces back office processing costs by 30-60% for mid-size and Fortune 1000 clients. Whether you’d like to outsource a specific function or your entire finance and accounting operations, we offer services that automate your accounts payable, billing/accounts receivable and document management processes. By streamlining, automating and minimizing labor-intensive back-office tasks, we improve your cash flow, improve controls and slash your processing costs.

Onshore finance and accounting outsourcing with API reduces days-sales-outstanding (DSO) by up to two weeks and provide total control of days payment outstanding (DPO) while eliminating manual data entry errors, misplaced or lost documents. We help you eliminate postage costs, reduce customer service expenses by up to 80%, and decrease back office staffing requirements. Results and savings are delivered within weeks and without any hidden costs for IT consulting, hardware, software or employee training.

We also increase:

  • Cost control — with API’s transactional pricing model, you pay only for what you use, and with our fully outsourced service you get guaranteed savings.
  • Accuracy — by converting manual tasks to automated processes, API strives for Six Sigma quality levels. In addition, API Outsourcing is SAS 70 Type II certified annually.
  • Peace of mind — enterprise-class business application systems, redundant data centers, data encryption, and onshore processing through our service delivery centers in Minnesota and Wisconsin assure the security and continuity of your back office operations.


API News


April 2008

View Executive Webinar presented by Aberdeen Group on "Transforming the AP Process to Deliver Cost Savings" with guest speaker Jan Bolin from Katun Corporation, which was held on April 24th

March 2008

API Successfully Completed SAS 70 Type II Audit

API sponsors Aberdeen Report- "A/P Transformation: Managing Paper First to Deliver Value Later"