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Balancing Credit Sales with Profits

Your Virtual Credit Manager

It affects the level of bad debt loss (uncollected Accounts Receivables) you suffer. Selling only to financially strong customers reduces the risk of bad debt loss, (and the cost of Credit and Collections activity required). The increased risk of a significant bad debt loss that your firm bears.

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Avoid these Six Collection Myths

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Collectors spend most of their time asking for payments While it is true collectors are constantly requesting payment of past due balances, once that request is made they end up spending most of their time resolving disputes and invoice discrepancies. For more on collection efficiency, check out this article.

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Debt Collection Mistakes Can Prove Costly

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Having your collection efforts back-stopped by a collection agency provides additional leverage to your efforts to get your customers to pay, avoid bad debt losses and preserve future sales to seriously delinquent customers. For more about working with Collection Agencies, check out this post.

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It's Time to Give Your AR Ledger a Spring Cleaning

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Supporting profitable sales through the extension of credit Collecting as much of the AR generated as possible by or near the due date to ensure a substantial cash inflow Mitigating the risk of bad debt losses These tasks are best accomplished in a tidy environment.

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AR Data Management, AR Automation, & Accelerating Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Share How to Clean Up Your AR Ledger Launch a collection program to collect all past due invoices at least 15 days late. Match as many unapplied payments and unapplied credit memos to open invoices, deductions, and debit memos as possible. This included a 100 percent increase in past due collected.

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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

it just might help them pay you sooner!

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7 Steps for Collecting Unpaid Invoices in 2023

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I’m not talking a week or two: I’m talking about invoices that are a month late or more. When that happens, I take the following steps to getting seriously past-due invoices paid. Step 1 — Identify Overdue Invoices. 30 days after invoice due date if still unpaid. No searching necessary.