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Are You Hindering Your Collection Agency's Efforts?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

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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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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Should You Outsource AR Management?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Just as payroll has been cost effectively handled by external processors for over 70 years, so can a variety of credit, collection and AR tasks and processes. Credit Risk Evaluations : If you purchase Credit Risk Insurance, the insurer will serve as your Credit Department. to minimize the chance of bad debt loss.

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How Long Does a Charge-Off Stay on Your Credit Report? 

CreditStrong for Business

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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How CFOs can Tie Digital Order-to-Cash Initiatives to Enterprise-wide Strategy

Emagia

Customer Experience: Customer experience is enhanced through smooth and efficient management of orders, receivables, credit, etc., Finance Cost: RPA and Analytics helps enhance the efficiency in invoicing, receivable management, and payment collection to minimize the need for credit or working capital loan.

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What’s a Charge-Off, and How Does It Affect My Credit?

Fundera

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.” Technically, that bad debt is “charged-off” or “written-off.”.