Philadelphia, PA (April 1, 2025) – Today, Firstrust Bank announced that it is partnering with Autobooks to enhance its small business digital banking offering. This partnership will enable Firstrust’s small business customers to get paid online or in-app, directly through their online and mobile banking platform.

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Autobooks is a leading provider of digital invoicing and payment acceptance tools and a trusted integrated-payments partner for small business banking. The integration of Autobooks’ invoicing and payment acceptance modules into Firstrust Bank’s digital banking platform will help small business owners and nonprofits better manage cash flow and track their customers’ payment status. With just a few clicks, this much-needed tool allows users to create and send invoices, schedule recurring invoices, and receive card and ACH payments directly into their Firstrust Bank checking accounts.

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“Firstrust Bank has always been committed to providing our customers with tools that simplify and enhance their financial journey,” said Richard Hildebrandt, Chief Marketing Officer at Firstrust Bank. “By partnering with Autobooks, we’re delivering cutting-edge solutions that allow our small business customers to easily send invoices, get paid, and manage their cash flow — all from within our online and mobile banking platforms. This is just one of the ways we are supporting the success of small businesses, which are vital to the communities we serve.”

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In addition to invoicing and online payment acceptance, Autobooks offers cash flow management, accounting, and financial reporting tools as part of its full product suite. With Autobooks, Firstrust Bank can deliver workflow-related services that serve its clients’ immediate needs while increasing engagement, loyalty and profitability.

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“How businesses accept payments is shifting from cash and check to card and digital wallets,” said Derik Sutton, Chief Marketing Officer at Autobooks. “We are proud to partner with Firstrust Bank to enable their business customers to accept card-based payments and manage cash flow directly from the bank’s online and mobile banking applications.”

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“Small business owners are busier than ever, and they need tools to help them be more efficient,” added Hildebrandt. “With Autobooks, our customers gain powerful capabilities to streamline their invoicing and payment processes, giving them more time to focus on growing their businesses.”

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About Firstrust Bank:  

Founded in 1934, with assets of approximately $5 billion, Firstrust Bank is the region’s largest family-owned financial institution, one of the region’s largest and strongest full-service commercial banks, and one of the most consistently top-performing banks in the Nation. Founded by Samuel A. Green, who began the business in his mother’s kitchen in South Philadelphia, Firstrust is currently in its third generation of family management, operating as Philadelphia’s Hometown Bank® for 90 years. Firstrust offers a broad range of retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, businesses, and institutions. In commercial banking, Firstrust provides a wide variety of solutions, including commercial real estate finance, business banking, asset-backed lending, and deposit and treasury management services. Firstrust meets the needs of its consumer customers by offering a full range of deposit, lending, and residential mortgage products. Firstrust is a Small Business Administration (SBA) Preferred Lender, is a Top Workplaces employer, the Official Bank of the Philadelphia Eagles and serves its customers through 18 branch banking offices located in Southeastern PA, Cherry Hill, NJ, and Towson, MD. For more information, visit firstrust.com or call 800-220-BANK. Member FDIC.

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About Autobooks:

Autobooks empowers financial institutions of all sizes to better serve and monetize new and existing small business relationships by enabling business owners to send digital invoices, get paid online, manage cash flow, and automate accounting — all directly from their existing online and mobile banking. Because the Autobooks payment acceptance and invoicing tools are directly integrated into digital banking, a financial institution’s existing channels are transformed into a day-to-day destination for businesses — leading to increased deposits, non-interest fee income, and lending opportunities. Over time, Autobooks has been proven to reduce reliance on competing third-party apps, allowing financial institutions to (re)establish primacy in this crucial segment.