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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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Red Flags, Slow Payments, and Collection Secrets

Your Virtual Credit Manager

In our case, we found our readers had an affinity for articles on identifying collection risks and the best ways of dealing with past due balances. Hopefully, these insights will help you with your collection efforts Not a subscriber … why don’t you take advantage of a YVCM subscription?

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Seven Hacks for Improving Later Phase Collection Results

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Collecting from other businesses begins as a series of reminders followed by administrative tasks to provide your customer with the information they need to pay your invoice, and can also involve reconciling your information to theirs. Later phase collections require a much heavier reliance on problem solving and negotiation skills.

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Four Goals Guaranteed to Improve Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Hopefully, that is why you are reading Your Virtual Credit Manager. If, however, there are unpaid invoices that have been allowed to go beyond the 90 day mark, you have a serious collection problem. In most cases (90 percent or more), we find the customer has a valid claim and deserves a credit.

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Outsourcing vs. In-House Debt Collection: Pros and Cons

Eastern Credit Management Services

When it comes to debt collection, businesses are faced with a critical decision. Should they handle it in-house or outsource it to a professional debt collection agency like Eastern Credit Management Services (ECMS)? Resource Efficiency: Outsourcing debt collection saves your company time, manpower, and resources.

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Divide and Conquer Your Past Due AR

Your Virtual Credit Manager

This misguided search for a singular understanding applies to many things, including collecting Accounts Receivable (AR). Optimal Collection results are achieved by utilizing different collection techniques with different types of customers. How do you determine which customer types merit which collection protocols?

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Avoid non-payment: Four ways to ensure your organisation gets paid

Onguard

Credit risk monitoring is key Non-payment of invoices can cause unnecessary stress in your work. Credit risk monitoring is therefore key to ensuring you get paid. With the help of credit risk management software, you have the correct procedures and policies in place to prevent non-payment.