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Is Your Collection Agency a Good Fit?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Market volatility and rising costs are instead disrupting working capital budgets, causing late payments that inflate accounts receivable (AR). There’s scant hope that interest rates will return to pre-Covid, easy-money levels anytime soon.

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Debt Collection Mistakes Can Prove Costly

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Time is as much an enemy as anything else when you are charged with collecting past due accounts receivable (AR), so it is crucial you don’t waste time by making mistakes, which will also serve to elongate the collection process. Here then are eleven mistakes that business debt collectors should avoid: 1.

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Resolve to Be More Proactive in 2024

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Two weeks ago we recapped the three most read articles from 2023: identifying red flags, understanding why customers pay late, and the secrets of successful collectors. Then last week we looked at credit hold best practices. From a credit management perspective, these are largely reactive topics.

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Don't Leave Converting Sales into Cash to Chance

Your Virtual Credit Manager

If your sales are consummated via payment at the point of sale, which may involve “pay with order” or “pay on delivery” protocols involving a credit card or an online e-payment product, managing Accounts Receivable (AR) will not be big issue for you.

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Equip Your Collection Agency for Success

Your Virtual Credit Manager

In fact, most SMBs should look into using Collection Agencies to not only maximize the recovery of Accounts Receivable (AR) at high risk of never being collected, but to collect all old receivables. Your credit application should include all this information.