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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Inevitably they will need to initiate Collection activities to recover some of this money owed; in other words, contacting delinquent customers and requesting them to pay your firm for goods and/or services provided on credit terms that have become past due. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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Gleaning Actionable Insights from Credit Scores

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Commercial credit scores predict the likelihood of a business fulfilling its financial obligations, particularly regarding debt repayment and trade credit. Commercial credit scores are often not as well understood as consumer credit scores such as FICO. Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash First, a little background.

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Evidence It's Time to Adjust Your Collection Practices

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Effective collections are crucial to maintaining a healthy cash flow and the financial stability of your company. If your business is struggling with cash flow or AR balances are growing, it could be a sign that your collections policy requires updating. There are a myriad of issues that can affect collections.

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Effectively Collecting Receivables Is a Time Management Challenge

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash Effective collections is the single most important factor for achieving reliable cash inflows. Effective collections can also reduce bad debt losses by compensating for a liberal or weak Credit Control function. The solution to the collections challenge therefore starts with Prioritization.

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How to Collect Outstanding Invoices Faster With Better Dunning A/R Collections Templates

Gaviti

Effective communication is the most critical aspect of any A/R collections strategy. But how do you create outstanding invoices and follow-up notices that convert bills into cash? Even so, there are some basics you can apply across most templates you may use for collections. Create templates specifically for them.

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Is Your AR Management up to the Task?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Subscribe now Ten Reasons Accounts Receivables Under Perform Failure to Conduct Credit Checks: Sometimes newer business are so excited to get an order, they fail to check the new customer’s credit, only to end up selling to a deadbeat and not getting paid. Here’s more on Credit Checks. An under performing AR.

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B2B Credit Management

TreviPay

Credit management is integral to accounts receivable management. Good credit management supports consistent cash flow, smooth payment collections, customer satisfaction, and much else. Getting B2B credit management right can make a huge difference to a company’s success and growth… What is credit management?