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Holiday Collection Policy Tips from the RevCycle Heroes

RevCycle

Be transparent about late fees and consequences: Clearly outline any late fees or penalties associated with overdue payments, but do so in a non-threatening, informative manner. Utilize payment gateways: Integrate secure payment gateways into your website or invoicing system for seamless online transactions.

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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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Misalignment Between Credit and Sales Spells Trouble

Your Virtual Credit Manager

For a small business owner or executive, navigating credit decisions can be challenging, especially when they clash with the goals of other stakeholders within the company. It's essential, however, for everybody to recognize that credit decisions also have broader implications across various aspects of company operations.

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The Imperative for Modernizing Trade Credit

Your Virtual Credit Manager

As a result, trade credit, where businesses extend financing to customers, is undergoing rapid advancements, but it also poses high risks, especially in assessing creditworthiness, dealing with economic fluctuations, and fraud. Are there past due accounts you are trying to collect? it just might help them pay you sooner!

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ACH Transactions: What Small Business Owners Need To Know

Lendio

For small businesses, understanding the basics of ACH is important on two fronts: you can make and receive payments through ACH, and ACH is a common method funders use to collect repayment of a business cash advance. What are Automated Clearing House (ACH) transactions? Finally, the ACH network settles the transaction with both banks.

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How to Accept Credit Card Payments for your Small Business

Lendio

As more American consumers utilize next-generation payment methods like touchless transactions or smartphone payments, there’s a general sense that we’re headed toward a cashless world. If you’re trying to decide whether you should accept credit card payments, it’s never been easier. Why accept credit cards?

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Understanding Your Business Credit Score Range

Lendio

A personal credit score determines the level of risk that comes with lending to you. You use it to apply for credit cards and other financing options to cover major purchases. A business credit score works similarly, except instead of evaluating your risk as an individual, financial institutions evaluate your business’s viability.