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Top 10 Strategies for Reducing Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The primary way most companies measure AR performance involves looking at the Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) metric. Accelerating sales can increase DSO, but most often the cause is problems in the order-to-cash (O2C) pipeline affecting collections. Your Virtual Credit Manager is a reader-supported publication.

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Top 10 Collection Reminders Writing Tips

Gaviti

9) Include different payment options for customer convenience Offering multiple payment options available will help your clients to settle past due accounts faster and easier. For example, foreign clients that cannot make ACH payments should have additional payment options available such as credit card payments.

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Help business clients use technology to improve cash flow

Abrigo

Dashboards : Software that creates dashboards can help monitor changes in Days Sales Outstanding, identify the biggest credit risks and the receivables with balances over 75 days past due, flag increases in inventory days. Other digital payment options : Amazon Payments, PayPal, Apple Pay.

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Is Your AR Management up to the Task?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

To avoid the delays associated with checks and otherwise not providing customers with their preferred method of payment, businesses should offer multiple payment options including credit card payments over the phone, online payments via ACH or credit card, and other automatic payments.

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Reducing Debtor Days To Maximise Cashflow

Know-It Global

This is why it’s crucial that businesses get a firm grip of their cashflow, and one of the most effective ways to maximise your cashflow is by reducing your debtor days. What are debtor days? Debtor days, or as some call days sales outstanding (DSO), is a measure of how long it takes for a company to collect payment from its customers.

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Increase the Liquidity of Your Receivables Portfolio

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Here are the KPIs you will need at a minimum: Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) - This metric tells you how fast you are converting your sales into cash. Move your smallest customers onto credit cards at the time of purchase. The point is, you should be doing everything you can to reduce terms inflation.

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The B2B Payments Landscape Today

TreviPay

Credit cards and virtual cards 48% of businesses surveyed in one recent study use credit card payments for B2B transactions. They have the same reasons as consumers do.