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Tackling Customers that Always Pay Late

Your Virtual Credit Manager

This creates cash flow shortages, an increased risk of bad debt, and a significant work requirement to mitigate the impact of late payments. Your collection cost will wholly or significantly offset the cost of the credit card transaction, and the time saved can be devoted to focusing your attention on higher-value customers.

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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. AR Records It is critically important that you have quick access at all times to an accurate, up-to-date AR Ledger.

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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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After the Credit Application: Getting to Know Your Customers Even Better

Your Virtual Credit Manager

(Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash ) When there are time constraints that forestall additional research, denying credit or requiring collateral or some other security is the best way to avoid a decision that results in delinquency and a potential bad debt loss.

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

Credit Research Foundation

Cash Flow – A B2B credit card program enhances cash flow through a reduction in the cycle time it takes to close a transaction, whether it be at the point of purchase or a defined payment date, by eliminating float time through the United States Postal Service.

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Revolutionize Your Credit Application Process: A Compelling Case for Digital Transformation

Credit Research Foundation

Effortless Transactions: Digital transformation simplifies processes, making transactions more convenient for customers. This data-driven approach allows informed decision-making, optimizing the risk management process by utilizing both internal and external data to identify emerging customer risks.