Key Statistics B-to-B Catalogers Ought to Know

The fiscal year 2007 year-to-date statistics for the SmartPay program are as follows:

* Total spent year to date is 3.5 percent ahead of last year. If this holds, I predict sales of $18.4 billion, up by roughly 3 percent;

* The total number of transactions is down by more than 40,000 per month over the previous fiscal year;