As summer ends and fall approaches, we hope you're taking time to enjoy the natural beauty of our world. And as we marvel at the glories of nature, we have to think about our own responsibility for our environment.

Switching to SmartPay electronic invoicing is one of the simplest, easiest, and least painful things you can do to help the environment. 

Think about it: 10% of all the trees cut down in our world go on to be used in the process of billing and paying bills. We could save nearly a million trees every year by switching over to electronic invoicing.

Creating paper invoices takes up so much energy in a year that -- if all businesses went paperless -- we'd save enough electricity for 20 million households. Electronic invoicing does of course use electricity, but only the electricity already in use by the computers which are already operating in our homes and businesses. No additional electricity is consumed by using SmartPay.

The world's invoices, according to a recent report, could fill up 10 football stadiums each year. That's 240,000 tons of wasted paper. Some are thrown away, contributing significantly to the waste stream, which is 40% paper. Some are saved, taking up space which is heated and cooled and otherwise served in ways that require fuel consumption -- and those saved papers, too, will one day enter the waste stream.

When you consider that e-invoicing also saves money and time, it's hard to see any good reason for continuing to use paper invoices.

Switch to SmartPay. Who knows, you might save enough time to get out and go for a walk before the cold weather comes.