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. A structured dispute resolution process minimizes delays in payment collection.

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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 cash is the company gaining or losing? Do you need to make changes to the way you bill customers?

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The Esker Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Close-up of business document in touchpad lying on the desk, office workers interacting in the background. AR managers/leaders — With automation, AR leaders have the tools and technologies to be true partners to their business by empowering the people and optimizing the processes that impact cash collection.

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Gaviti

JUNE 25, 2024

It relies on clients’ payment histories to determine what your cash flow will look like in the future. Why Is Forecasting Accounts Receivable Collections Important? Cash flow is essential for business. If you’re not sure what your cash flow will look like in the future, you won’t be able to make effective business decisions.

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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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The Esker Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the wake of the pandemic, CFOs found themselves with a new batch of supply chain and finance challenges — ones that have made it increasingly difficult to manage processes, collect cash and reach your accounts receivable goals. Historically, the processes within collections, cash application and credit management are highly manual.

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Gaviti

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Even with the most streamlined and automated A/R management process and B2B collections best practices , customers don’t always pay on time. At this point, your business should move from handling the invoice in-house to managing it through one of the debt collection outsourcing services listed below. billion by 2025 in the U.S.

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Gaviti

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Collections calls typically rely on a team of individuals, each responsible for his or her own accounts. Although the idea is for the collections teams to build a rapport with their customers, the approach is flawed. Other inefficiencies of collections calls include: They are resource-intensive.

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Emagia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As a longtime leader in the AI-based order-to-cash solutions industry, conferences around the world ask for Emagia representatives to appear and speak Artificial Intelligence, automation, and GenAI in finance. How can AI improve Cash App? The potential of AI to transform Cash Application processes is significant, if not revolutionary.

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Emagia

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Automation of accounts receivable is the process of automating various manual tasks involved AR process like invoicing, collecting, and tracking receivable to ensure timely collection. A study by Forbes, found that around 75% of companies reported having less than two months of operating cash at their disposal.

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billtrust

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Best practices and solutions for scaling cash application and to accelerate payments. She recently was a guest speaker at a Billtrust webinar where the discussion focused on the most pressing cash application challenges burdening AR departments. What a typical cash application process looks like.

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Gaviti

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This third party can be responsible for reports such as aging reports, scheduling payment reminders, tracking and collecting overdue invoices, and identifying high-risk customers to avoid extending more credit than they can realistically take on. Depending on the volume of invoices, it could be handled by an individual or a team.

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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. It also identifies cash flow issues before they become problems.

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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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Gaviti

APRIL 3, 2024

Understanding Days Sales Outstanding Days Sales Outstanding, or DSO , is the average number of days it takes a company to collect revenue from an invoice. Accounting operations managers use DSO to calculate the general ability of a company to collect invoices on time for a specific period (e.g. Automate the collections process.

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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. Having the best dunning workflow for each customer is the key to increasing your cash flow. In some companies, the implementation of dunning workflows increases cash flow by a significant percentage almost instantly.

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Emagia

MAY 1, 2024

. “The time has come to take advantage of it in terms of how we do things and how we might be able to do things better,” says David Schmidt, Managing Director at A2 Resources and former longtime contributor with Credit Today. Collections, payment, and invoicing software can reduce the time for preparation and follow-up.

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apruve

JULY 25, 2022

Accounts receivable automation software automates a company’s invoicing and collections processes. Some of these platforms help companies improve B2B customer purchase experiences with buyer portals, credit automation, and B2B payment automation. However, only one platform integrates trade credit and A/R automation : Apruve.

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Emagia

APRIL 19, 2023

Lockbox processing allows businesses, that frequently receive payments and documents by mail, cut costs, increase cash flow, and swiftly update their accounting systems. Banks still handle lockbox payments during regular business hours, ensuring the money is credited to the company’s account the same day.

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Gaviti

MARCH 10, 2024

Its modules include: Credit Monitoring and Management. Automate credit limits of new and potential customers and monitor payment history to send alerts to relevant stakeholders if customers near their predetermined credit threshold. Collection Analytics. Cash Application. Customer Self-Service Gateway.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Should you confirm that the customer is indeed correct, the deduction is removed from the Accounts Receivable (AR) ledger via a credit memo. If not approved, there should be an attempt to collect the disputed amount to avoid diluting profits, and if not collected, the deduction should be cleared by a bad debt write-off.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Photo by CDC on Unsplash Credit & Collection results suffer greatly from lack of attention and expertise. Hiring an experienced full-time person to perform the Credit & Collection tasks is not financially possible. Need help improving cash flow? it just might help them collect faster and pay you sooner.

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Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

APRIL 16, 2025

This is particularly true for Credit Managers. By its nature, the credit and collections function requires advance planning and strategies to meet aggressive targets, how best to deploy and develop staff resources, and to provide continuous process evaluation and improvement. No management role is exempt.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 21, 2025

Large swaths of the order-to-cash (O2C) process involve credit and collection activities. Broadly defined, the credit’s contributions involve approving new customers for open terms and new orders at the front end of the O2C cycle. Your Virtual Credit Manager is a reader-supported publication.

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TreviPay

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Applying cash using the first-in-first-out, or FIFO, methodology doesn’t work for most customers and will create reconciliation challenges when collecting from them. Even if you apply cash FIFO for smaller customers, be prepared to meet the challenge of cash application per the customer’s instructions.

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