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

Credit Research Foundation

Effortless Transactions: Digital transformation simplifies processes, making transactions more convenient for customers. This efficiency allows for resource redeployment to higher-value work, all while minimizing customer default risk. Streamlining the journey reduces friction and enhances overall customer satisfaction.

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Are Early Payment Discounts a Good Idea in Today’s Economy?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Getting customers to pay now rather than later reduces the risk of a default down the road. The reduction in revenue and margin, while painful, will be a smaller price to pay than a large drop in incoming cash and the higher risk of a larger, damaging, bad debt. Most distressed companies continue paying, until they can’t.

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9 Trade Credit Traps to Avoid

Your Virtual Credit Manager

By avoiding the following common traps, or myths if you will, businesses can minimize the risk of non-payment or default and make better informed decisions about extending credit to other businesses that will boost sales and profits. Credit evaluations prevent more bad debts than collection efforts.

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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

It is important to keep in mind that trade credit — selling on terms in a B2B environment — is greatly affected by the transactional process. it just might help them pay you sooner! it just might help them pay you sooner! Share A Case in Point A parts distributor was having difficulty with collections and high dispute volumes.

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Customer Stops Paying; Now What?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

From this conversation, you will learn how perilous the bad debt risk is with this customer, and how urgent your reaction must be. Mitigate the Risk with a Financial Instrument: Involving a third party with strong credit is a good way to get security on the debt owed you. The bank will pay you if your customer defaults.

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How Do Large Enterprises Benefit from Trade Credit Automation?

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Despite the significant benefits, the administrative and operational costs of a manual credit process add up on both sides of the transaction. Top benefits of trade credit automation include: Focus on High-Value Transactions. It’s a known fact that in most businesses, about 20% of B2B customers generate these higher-value transactions.