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When do Credit Card Payments Report to Credit Bureaus?

The Red Spectrum

When it comes to managing your finances and building a healthy credit history, understanding how credit card payments affect your credit reports is essential. Credit reports serve as a snapshot of your financial behavior and are often used to determine loan approvals, interest rates, and credit limits.

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Top 10 Strategies for Reducing Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Besides driving process improvement, the experts at Your Virtual Credit Manager can apply default risk probabilities & other financial benchmarks to your AR portfolio to reveal actionable credit & collection insights. To receive new posts and support my work, please subscribe for just $5 per month ($49 yearly).

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Mitigating Commercial Credit Fraud

Your Virtual Credit Manager

When we first think about credit risk, our minds focus on the financial status of the company in question. To manage the risk that a customer might default, companies implement credit and collection policies and procedures.

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Strategies for Navigating Elevated Interest Rates

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Share Nine Tips for Safeguarding Your AR from Interest Rates In the face of persistent interest rates, there are a number of steps business credit grantors should take to protect the value of their accounts receivable. Implementing robust credit policies, including thorough credit checks and tight credit terms, minimizes default risks.

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The Ultimate List of Credit Card Processing Companies for Small Business

Fundera

With a market full of credit card processors vying for your business, these questions will be tough to answer on your own. That’s why we’ve compiled the ultimate list of credit card payment processing companies for small business. The Top Credit Card Processing Companies for Small Business.

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Is Your AR Management up to the Task?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Here’s more on Credit Checks. Poor Credit Controls: Poor credit control practices can result in providing goods or services to high-risk accounts that are likely to pay beyond terms or even default on payments.

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You Absolutely Need to Know About Secured Business Credit Cards

Fundera

On the other end of the spectrum, you have secured business credit cards. With secured business credit cards, cardholders need to put down a refundable cash deposit for collateral. That’s so, in the event that you default on your credit card payments, the credit card issuer can use the deposit you made to repay your debt.