Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit Policy is an inextricable part of a company’s Sales Policy. If you choose to sell on open credit, the terms you offer are in effect part of the price. If you discuss credit terms with a competitor, you are in violation of anti-trust statutes forbidding price fixing. What’s Right for Your Firm?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Photo by Ralph Hutter on Unsplash Confronted with high interest rates and inflation, and heading into a what is increasingly looking like a recession, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) will probably need to use a Collection Agency more than they have in the past.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Companies selling other businesses on open terms need to ensure any collection agency partners can effectively collect non-performing receivables. Here are four prime example of issues that impede third party collections: 1. Doing this involves taking a series of proactive steps.

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

APRIL 30, 2025

.” The quote rings true for wanderers, but for a manager—especially a Credit Manager—there’s a harsher reality: “You will fail if you know where you want to go but have no plan on how to get there.” Threats : Unforeseen economic downturns could erode customer creditworthiness and collection results.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Looking around us, the Amazons, Netflixes, and HubSpots of the world were billing and charging clients automatically, while our business’s billing and collections looked pretty much the same as it had been done before computers. As invoices age further past due, the probability of a bad debt loss increases.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 18, 2024

Photo by Muhammad Daudy on Unsplash ) The problem with startup companies: there is a high probability they will fail , leaving you with a bad debt on your books. That’s why it is standard to ask on a credit applications the year in which the business was formed. Do you need help managing credit and collections?

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Lockstep

JUNE 15, 2022

For B2B businesses, credit management is essential for accounts receivable (AR) management success. Proper, healthy credit management allows for steady cash flow, better collections management and a manageable days sales outstanding (DSO). . The credit plan will help your organization reduce bad debt and write-offs.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 11, 2023

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.

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Know-It Global

JUNE 20, 2023

Credit control is a vital aspect of financial management for businesses. It involves managing credit sales and making informed credit decisions, ensuring timely payment from customers, and minimising bad debt. Setting Up Credit Control Processes 1.1 This is where business credit checking comes into play.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Processing Delays There are several AR activities that often take longer than they should and therefore cause delays: processing credit applications, approving orders, generating invoices, and posting payments. Credit evaluations, however, often take time. In small companies, this may occur due to a lack of credit analysis skills.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

AUGUST 1, 2023

Even though the economic headwinds are moderating, now is not the time to become less vigilant from a customer credit perspective. If you are extending credit to business customers, prudence dictates that you be prepared to deal with customer bankruptcies. Right now there are nearly a million new businesses beating the odds.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Who absorbs any potential bad debt loss — does the lender have recourse to return the AR if they cannot collect it versus a non-recourse arrangement? Who performs the Credit & Collection activities — you or the finance company? Your Virtual Credit Manager is a reader-supported publication.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 3, 2023

Over time, AR Ledgers unfortunately tend to collect “Clutter.” Clutter can also cause new orders to be placed on a credit hold when it otherwise would have been automatically released. Share How to Clean Up Your AR Ledger Launch a collection program to collect all past due invoices at least 15 days late.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 10, 2023

Photo by Patrick Hendry on Unsplash Although defaults resulting in significant bad debt losses are a rare event for trade creditors, much of the focus of AR Management is on credit risk. Banks make money by lending so they pay close attention to the credit risk of the borrower. What are these barriers?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 13, 2023

Open Credit Terms dominate the Business-to-Business (B2B) marketplace. Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash There are two types of credit risk that arise from selling on open credit terms: Customers paying beyond terms (past due) reduce your cash flow. These bad debt losses can put your own business at risk of failure.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

To optimize the order-to-cash (O2C) process, it's crucial to understand the significant role Credit and Collections plays. Photo by Jay Heike on Unsplash ) What happens during the O2C process, however, apart from credit and collection activities, can have an outsized impact on cash flow and AR performance.

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Gaviti

APRIL 11, 2024

Are you offering enough or too much credit to customers? Document your findings: What have you learned after completing the analysis? Are you able to collect invoices on all of the revenue your business generates? How much bad debt does the company have, and how has this changed over time?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 9, 2024

Then last week we looked at credit hold best practices. From a credit management perspective, these are largely reactive topics. In fact, once you decide to sell a customer on open credit, most of the accounts receivable (AR) management tasks that follow have a reactive component. There is nothing wrong with that.

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Fundera

JULY 16, 2018

A charge-off is when you’re so late on your credit card or loan payments that the lender expects you’ll never pay, so they remove the anticipated income from their ledger and document the loss as bad debt. Technically, that bad debt is “charged-off.” But don’t worry too much. Neither are great. Transferred”.

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RMAi Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

On average, American’s are buying more and more of life’s necessities using their credit cards. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as published in its Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit Report the total household debt in the third quarter of 2022, increased by $351 billion (2.2%) to $16.51

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Emagia

MARCH 3, 2025

The Accounts Receivable (AR) Process Cycle is a fundamental component of a company’s financial operations, encompassing the series of actions taken to manage and collect payments owed by customers for goods or services provided on credit. An efficient AR process is vital for maintaining liquidity and supporting business growth.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now that you understand that your customer has become a liability, it’s time to review their credit worthiness again so you can make informed choices. Order a new credit report, request updated financial statements, and re-check the references provided when they first applied for credit.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 4, 2023

Supporting profitable sales through the extension of credit Collecting as much of the AR generated as possible by or near the due date to ensure a substantial cash inflow Mitigating the risk of bad debt losses These tasks are best accomplished in a tidy environment. What constitutes optimization of a company’s AR?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 7, 2023

On the plus side, promptly processing orders and avoiding unnecessary credit holds raises customer satisfaction. These problems include slow payments, partial payments, a dissatisfied customer as well as extra costs should the order need to be reworked, a return processed, credit issued, or re-invoiced.

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MNS Credit Management Group

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Many businesses that owe money to creditors use debt collectors, who work for a fee or a portion of the total amount collected. Some debt collectors are also debt purchasers; these businesses buy debt below its face value and then make an effort to collect the entire amount owed. Key Takeaways.

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Gaviti

APRIL 24, 2023

Poor Vetting Process for New Customers When you extend credit, you must do so because you can reasonably expect to get paid that money eventually. Failure to properly vet customers opens the door to delayed payments, bad debts, court battles, and worse. Standard options include money orders, checks, ACH, credit cards, and cash.

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TreviPay

MARCH 20, 2023

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?

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CreditStrong for Business

AUGUST 27, 2024

If a consumer has an unpaid debt on an existing credit account, the original lender will eventually close the account and charge off the bad debt. Generally, these debts are reported to the credit bureaus and remain as a negative entry on your credit history for seven years. What is a Charge-Off?

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MNS Credit Management Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

In addition to giving solicitors instructions to start legal proceedings, we also offer credit management services including sending letters of demand prior to legal action, a service that looks into a company’s history, credit reports, and status reports. When a client owes a business money, consumer collections take place.

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Fundera

MARCH 17, 2016

Before you do anything, it’s important to understand what short-term debt actually is. Short-term debt is any of your business debt due within the year, often including bank loans, credit cards, or credit lines. Short-term debt can also include the portion of longer-term debt due within the year.

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TreviPay

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Trade credit insurance has become a vital tool for businesses looking to protect themselves from the risk of non-payment by customers. Trade credit insurance, also known as accounts receivable insurance, safeguards businesses from significant losses. This guide to trade credit insurance will help you navigate the complexities of it.

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Emagia

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

OTC, the main cash flow driver, has many subsets within it, and credit management is more important than it looks on the surface. The top line and bottom line will be positively impacted when a sales order is received and fulfilled, but your business is at risk till you collect cash against the invoice.

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Emagia

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Why should credit management be automated. How important is the automation of credit management for business growth. Autonomous finance eliminates efficiency bottlenecks in finance operations such as credit management, accounts receivables, accounts payables, cash flow, budgeting, F&PA, and other financial processes.

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Gaviti

APRIL 18, 2024

As an assessment and diagnostic tool, it’s hard to overstate the importance of your company’s accounts receivable (AR) collections aging report. This report is a valuable tactic to stay on top of cash flow and improve short-term collections forecasting. Cash flow problems usually relate to collection policies or customer behavior.

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Gaviti

APRIL 24, 2024

Dunning workflows are a series of automated emails and actions that A/R teams use to collect invoices from customers. The Dunning Notice: The Foundation of any Dunning Workflow A dunning notice , or dunning letter, is a document sent to customers at various stages in the dunning process to collect unpaid invoices.

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Emagia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Deloitte highlights the transformative potential of AI, GenAI, and machine learning (ML) in optimizing traditional O2C workflows, leading to cost savings and faster collections. Invoice Generation Manual invoice creation is often labor-intensive and prone to errors, which can delay cash collection and disrupt cash flow.

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