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Resolving Disputes and Payment Deductions Quickly Preserves Profits

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Disputes and payment deductions can raise havoc with your revenue, profit and cash flow. With disputes and deductions, however, you are being asked to accept less money than you billed, not to mention any resolution costs involved trying to recover the lost revenue. Deductions are notoriously low return.

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Overcoming the Challenges Caused by Disputes and Deductions

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Disputes and Deductions occur when a customer believes an order has not been satisfactorily fulfilled, or it has been invoiced incorrectly. Deductions occur when a customer pays an invoice less than the full amount (short payment) with no intention of ever making up the balance. The good news is your customer has sent you a payment.

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What Triggers Your Collection Efforts?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

If all your customers paid promptly — by the time the invoice was due — you would not need to do any collection work. Collections is a reactive process. The amount of collection activity with which you are tasked is directly proportional to your customers’ payment habits.

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Red Flags, Slow Payments, and Collection Secrets

Your Virtual Credit Manager

In our case, we found our readers had an affinity for articles on identifying collection risks and the best ways of dealing with past due balances. Hopefully, these insights will help you with your collection efforts Not a subscriber … why don’t you take advantage of a YVCM subscription?

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Is Your O2C Process Optimized for Superior AR Performance?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

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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How AI Can Mitigate B2B Collections Risks

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Predictive AI capabilities in many modern B2B collections software now let businesses do exactly this while solving many other challenges in the B2B collections process. The Challenges of Traditional B2B Collections Unlike B2C collections, B2B collections involve steps related to credit, financing and legal agreements.

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Balancing Credit Sales with Profits

Your Virtual Credit Manager

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?