Two-sided payment visibility
An arrangement in which buyer and supplier both see the same status for an invoice and its payment at the same time, closing the gap between one side's records and the other's.
Two-sided payment visibility means the buyer and the supplier see the same status for an invoice and its payment at the same moment. When an invoice is received, approved, scheduled or paid, both parties observe the change together rather than learning it later through a statement or a chase email.
Conventional accounts payable is one-sided by design. The buyer knows where an invoice sits in its own workflow; the supplier does not, and has to ask. That information gap is where most payment friction lives: duplicated queries, premature chasing, and disputes over what was sent and when.
Shared visibility removes the gap rather than papering over it with notifications. Because both sides read from the same record, the question of whose version is correct does not arise.
On Accounting Links, buyer and supplier share one live view of each invoice and payment, so status is something both sides see rather than something one side reports to the other.