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Order-to-cash platform recognized for automating credit, collections, and lien and UCC management at the job level for construction, building materials, and industrial supply companies

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CHICAGO, Aug. 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bectran, the leading platform for trade credit, accounts receivable, collections, and payments, has been named to Construction Executive’s 2026 Top Tech List for the fifth consecutive year. The annual list recognizes the software providers construction, building materials, and industrial supply companies rely on most. The publication’s editors evaluate each provider on product efficacy and impact across the industry’s toughest operational challenges, including the order-to-cash cycle.

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Why Bectran Made The 2026 Top Tech List

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Bectran earned its place on the list by automating one of construction’s most persistent operational problems: credit management. As construction suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors take on more complex, multi-job customer relationships, manual job sheets and disconnected systems slow credit decisions, stall job approvals, drag out collections, and leave openings for fraud. Bectran replaces the spreadsheets and manual records many construction finance teams still work from today, automating credit decisioning and receivables management from the individual job, contractor, and subcontractor up through the full customer relationship. For finance teams, that means faster approvals on new jobs, fewer collection calls spent chasing down which job a payment applies to, and less time reconciling records by hand.

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“For a long time, construction finance teams have managed project-level risk with tools that weren’t built for it,” said Ali Kidwai, Senior Director of Product, Implementation, & Engineering at Bectran. “Five straight years on this list tells us we’re building what the industry actually needs: credit and collections that work the way construction works, job by job.”

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Job Credit Approvals in Seconds at SRS Distribution

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SRS Distribution, one of the fastest-growing distributors of building products in the United States, runs all of its job credit through Bectran, and more than half of those jobs are approved automatically with no manual touch. Applications that once took six to seven days to approve are completed in about four minutes when reviewed manually, and in as little as four seconds through Bectran’s Instant Decision Manager.

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“Because of the scoring models in Bectran, we now automate and approve over 50% of our jobs… that’s thousands of jobs that we don’t have to touch,” said Chris Arrington, Chief Credit Officer at SRS Distribution.

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That speed reaches SRS’s customers too. A contractor can complete a Bectran credit application right at the branch counter, be approved in under a minute, and walk out with materials the same visit.

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Credit, Collections, and Lien Management in One Platform

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Bectran gives companies a single system for managing credit risk and receivables across the customer relationship, down to the individual job. On the credit side, Bectran automates application intake, approval routing, and risk scoring using bureau data, payment history, and behavioral signals. It also helps companies secure their receivables by managing UCC filings and lien rights alongside the jobs they protect. Integrations with leading lien-tracking providers automatically keep job sheet and lien data in sync. On the receivables side, the platform gives teams visibility into job-level exposure and automates cash application across complex customer hierarchies. Customers get access to a self-service portal to manage payments across every job from a single login.