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Are Your Collection Efforts Myopic?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

A high degree of transactional transparency across the entire Order to Cash Process (O2C), coupled with 360-degree visibility of customers and their life-cycles, is necessary to optimize accounts receivable (AR) performance. The credit exposure you have with every customer.

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A Focus on Collections & Credit Fraud

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Share Don’t Let Your Company Become an Easy Target for Commercial Credit Frauds The increasing pace of B2B fraud underscores the importance of not only assessing a customer’s financial stability but also implementing practices to mitigate fraudulent transactions. via direct external communication with the customer.

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Eight Signs a Customer Is Becoming a Problem Debtor

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Any subsequent collection expenses and bad debt write-offs are more easily recouped through additional sales than if your gross margins are low. Problematic customers, or debtors if you will, are much less profitable and more likely to cause a bad debt loss. The issue with problematic customers is profit dilution.

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Credit Cards – Reducing the Cost of Acceptance – You hold the keys to success

Credit Research Foundation

In essence, the customer has payment options that, coupled with today’s digital platforms, provide a seamless opportunity in the order-to-cash process. In many cases the customers will choose the option that provides them with the greatest value, and when offered, gives the supplier a competitive advantage against its competition.

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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

It is important to keep in mind that trade credit — selling on terms in a B2B environment — is greatly affected by the transactional process. it just might help them pay you sooner! When changing the commission structure represents a major change for the Salesforce, a graduated approach over one or two quarters is recommended.

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Misalignment Between Credit and Sales Spells Trouble

Your Virtual Credit Manager

In order for that to happen, everybody needs to be aligned in regard to sales and credit in general and the objectives of the order-to-cash process (O2C) in particular. The experts at Your Virtual Credit Manager can help you bring in the cash. Are there past due accounts you are trying to collect?

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AR Data Management, AR Automation, & Accelerating Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Clear from your AR ledger as many of the clutter transactions as possible. Email us to learn how the experts at Your Virtual Credit Manager can help you clean up your AR Ledger and increase cash flow by improving your Collection Process. During 1995, DSO was reduced by an additional 10 percent, and bad-debt write-offs cut in half.