Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Cash flow is the biggest cause of customers defaults, but often cash flow is a result of other financial problems or miscues. A customer can be paying you with no problems, but then their bank line of credit comes up for review and is drastically cut back by the bank. Click here for more information about credit applications.

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TreviPay

MARCH 20, 2023

Credit management is integral to accounts receivable management. Good credit management supports consistent cash flow, smooth payment collections, customer satisfaction, and much else. It covers multiple different smaller components involved in issuing, monitoring, and collecting credit.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Processing Delays There are several AR activities that often take longer than they should and therefore cause delays: processing credit applications, approving orders, generating invoices, and posting payments. Poor Credit Management' We’ve already talked about how poor credit decisions can impact sales and collections.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Share Read on to learn six actions you can begin doing today to reduce the exposure of your AR portfolio to customers that are at risk of delinquency and default, and an additional three longer term initiatives you can implement that provide the added benefit of boosting future AR performance. Here’s a primer on credit insurance.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JULY 23, 2024

This is especially true in the case of small business customers, who will do everything they can to keep paying their suppliers and vendors, including tapping out their personal credit, until the bottom falls out. Irregular payments are a clear warning sign that default may be around the corner. that’s nearly a 30% discount!

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Without effective AR management, your cash flow is subject to entropy as the AR ages, as well as to the shocks caused by customer defaults. The solution is the implementation of credit and collection best practices geared to ensure customer profitability and sufficient cash flow. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

To continue reading and learn nine areas of focus for supercharging your collection process, you must be a paid subscriber to Your Virtual Credit Manager. Do you need help assessing your customers’ credit risks? For new customers, consider requiring partial prepayment or shorter payment terms until trust is established.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 19, 2024

To continue reading and learn about eleven events or circumstances that should trigger a collection response, in addition to when a customer goes past due, you need to be a paid subscriber to Your Virtual Credit Manager. The experts at Your Virtual Credit Manager can help you bring in the cash.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 18, 2024

That’s why it is standard to ask on a credit applications the year in which the business was formed. Years in business is a critical factor in the assessment of credit risk along with number of employees, which can be a good proxy for sales volume, something private businesses are not always willing to disclose.

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MNS Credit Management Group

MAY 20, 2022

The company’s creditworthiness is assessed in the Credit Opinion Report, which includes three elements: the MNS Business Information Report Rating, the probability of insolvency, and the recommended credit limit. Payment defaults and delivery issues can be disastrous for your company. Spread credit applications out.

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The Red Spectrum

MAY 18, 2023

If you pay your credit card balance before the end of your billing cycle, it can help lower your credit utilization ratio, which is the percentage of available credit you are using. A lower credit utilization ratio indicates responsible credit management and can improve your credit score.

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Eastern Credit Management Services

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

You can do this quite effectively by having a detailed credit application, I’m so much of a proponent of this that I wrote a whole blog dedicated to creating one. A detailed credit application does two things, it informs your customer of the terms and conditions of the credit you extend.

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Emagia

JUNE 12, 2023

It involves identifying, assessing, and mitigating the potential risks associated with extending credit to customers or counterparties. Effective credit risk management enables organizations to make informed decisions, protect their assets, maintain healthy cash flows, and safeguard against default and financial losses.

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TreviPay

MARCH 17, 2023

The company can offer a line of instant credit to its business customers while leaving responsibility for risk assessment and underwriting to TreviPay. That means Staples is always paid on time, even if their business customers default on a payment.

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Eagle Business Credit

MARCH 7, 2024

Creditworthiness and Credit Score Credit Scores: Banks typically look for a robust business credit score that reflects responsible credit management. A business’s credit score is a critical factor in their evaluation process.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

There are two factors that determine the rate of decline: the cost of money for your business and the probability of default by the debtor. Historically, the probability of default for a pool of receivables tends to increase as the receivables age. Your credit application should include all this information.

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TreviPay

MARCH 17, 2023

Being able to offer line of instant credit to its business customers while leaving responsibility for risk assessment and underwriting to TreviPay means this retailer is always paid on time, even if their business customers default on a payment.

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TreviPay

MARCH 17, 2023

Being able to offer line of instant credit to its business customers while leaving responsibility for risk assessment and underwriting to TreviPay means this retailer is always paid on time, even if their business customers default on a payment.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 26, 2024

About 25 years ago, a credit manager I know saved his company from a seven-figure bad debt loss by monitoring the Internet on his biggest customers. If the European parent company defaulted, the North American subsidiary would be pulled into bankruptcy even though its operations were profitable. A Case in Point.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Your Virtual Credit Manager is a reader-supported publication. Besides driving process improvement, the experts at Your Virtual Credit Manager can apply default risk probabilities & other financial benchmarks to your AR portfolio that reveal actionable credit & collection insights.

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