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Revolutionize Your Credit Application Process: A Compelling Case for Digital Transformation

Credit Research Foundation

Transforming your credit application process through digitization not only enhances credit extension capabilities but also significantly elevates the overall customer experience. Evaluating Your Current Processes: To begin, take a critical look at your existing credit application processes.

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Due Diligence Doesn't End with the Credit Application

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Furthermore, new businesses and small businesses tend to have high failure rates, and there is good reason to believe a wave of defaults is coming. If the European parent company defaulted, the North American subsidiary would be pulled into bankruptcy even though its operations were profitable.

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Credit Cards – Reducing the Cost of Acceptance – You hold the keys to success

Credit Research Foundation

Risk Mitigation – A seldom noted but important point is that a properly implemented program can reduce your risk of slow payment, fraud, and default within your portfolio. A properly implemented credit card program is becoming an essential tool in the payment process for organizations both large and small.

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Are There Hidden Risks in Your AR Portfolio?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

About 25 years ago, a credit manager I know saved his company from a seven-figure bad debt loss by monitoring the Internet on his biggest customers. If the European parent company defaulted, the North American subsidiary would be pulled into bankruptcy even though its operations were profitable.

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Get Ready for a Wave of Commercial Bankruptcies

Your Virtual Credit Manager

This prediction, although bold, is corroborated by the broader economic data, including escalating corporate bankruptcies, tightening loan standards by banks, and the surge in delinquent debt balances and consumer debt. You may also want to tighten your credit hold parameters at this time. Obtain Quotes on Credit Insurance.

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How To Minimize Bad Debt For Small Business

Eastern Credit Management Services

You can do this quite effectively by having a detailed credit application, I’m so much of a proponent of this that I wrote a whole blog dedicated to creating one. A detailed credit application does two things, it informs your customer of the terms and conditions of the credit you extend.

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Is Your AR Generating All the Cash Flow It Should?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Processing Delays There are several AR activities that often take longer than they should and therefore cause delays: processing credit applications, approving orders, generating invoices, and posting payments. When unobserved risks build up in your AR, the impact will be slower payments and defaults leading to bad debts.