Save Money, Use Less Paper

If you operate your own business or work in one where invoices are a constant juggling act, you may be pleased to hear about Invoice Cloud, a paperless invoicing or e-invoice option.

If you are "old" enough to remember the start of the computer age, you perhaps can relate to the promises it had of reducing (or eliminating) paper in our offices!! My personal experience is almost the exact opposite! In fact, I remember a fellow I worked with who used to print out every e-mail he received to read them in hard copy! I digress!!

Invoice Cloud may just be the type of service we need to begin to reduce the amount of paper we generate and to help reduce the massive amount used just for invoicing.

• Invoices are responsible for 10% of all trees cut down worldwide.
• Creating paper invoices uses as much electricity each year as the consumption of 20 million households.
• A year`s worth of invoices take up as much landfill space as 10 football fields each stacked more than 100 feet deep with paper.
• Getting rid of 12 billion pieces of paper means saving almost one milliontrees and 240,000 tons of paper every year.
• Slashing paper invoicing by half also translates to reducing our carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint by almost 250,000 tons.

A reminder, please ask all the important questions of this company as part of your sustainability due diligence.

Check to see just how sustainably they operate their own business. 

What kind of energy do they use? 
Do they have a company-wide recycling program?
Any energy efficiency policies?
Is their website hosted by a green host?
What kind of involvement to they have with their community?

Add your own questions as well. The key is to help these companies with great green ideas who are not aware of how they themselves can be greener and operate more sustainably.