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Debt Collection Mistakes Can Prove Costly

Your Virtual Credit Manager

If you sell on open credit terms, you need to plan on having to expend time and resources collecting from those customers that don’t pay when due. No matter how much effort you put into evaluating customer credit, some customers will not live up to your expectations. You need to be doing the right things.

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What Triggers Your Collection Efforts?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

If all your customers paid promptly — by the time the invoice was due — you would not need to do any collection work. Collections is a reactive process. The amount of collection activity with which you are tasked is directly proportional to your customers’ payment habits.

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SAP HANA Cloud Document Store – When Would I Use A Document Store?

SAP Credit Management

Instead, we’ll likely get results formatted in something called JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) JSON Documents The term JSON Document is used to describe either JSON Objects or JSON Arrays. For example, [Book] Title is a Key , and the Value for this might be Document Storage.

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It's Time for a Layered Approach to Collections

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The evolution of Accounts Receivables (AR) automation has revolutionized our collection strategies. Manual collection processes centered on an aged accounts receivable trial balance (ARTB) lack the regimentation and efficiency brought about by automation. For a more in depth discussion of systematic collections, click here.

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Avoid these Six Collection Myths

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Commercial collections is no different. Collection myths can be found at the very root of bad decisions as well as informing counter-productive activities. Adhering to collection myths more often than not leads to bad outcomes. Simply put, collection myths get in the way of doing the best job possible. Subscribe now 1.

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SAP S4HANA (1909) TM Collective Rate Determination and Collective Settlement

SAP Credit Management

Using collective settlement and collective rate determination, the total freight cost can be saved rather than spending for each shipment and this was agreed upon with the carrier to post freight settlement on a weekly basis and the total weight shipped that week. Choose option Collective from the dropdown.

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Foster Faster Collections with Effective Reminders

Your Virtual Credit Manager

For most small businesses, collections are reactive. In the meantime, routine collections are driven by passive activities, often just a monthly statement. While statements provide a history of invoice, credit, debit and payment activity on an account, dunning notices focus on past due balances.