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Balancing Credit Sales with Profits

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Credit industry groups discuss the payment history of common customers, but they always have an independent moderator present so that customer discussion do not veer off onto the topic of how individual companies plan on selling those same customers in the future. Credit Insurance policies often exclude individual, high risk accounts.

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Is Your AR Management up to the Task?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

That all the above consequences can present themselves simultaneously, only makes the downside worse. Poor Credit Controls: Poor credit control practices can result in providing goods or services to high-risk accounts that are likely to pay beyond terms or even default on payments. Here’s more on Credit Checks.

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Business Customer Personas: A Collectors Guide

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Photo by Keren Fedida on Unsplash Each business customer presents a unique set of circumstances. Identifying the groupings within your customer accounts receivable (AR) portfolio enables you to deal with them all more effectively and efficiently. Firms that take a lot of payment deductions can fall into this category.