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Top 10 Strategies for Reducing Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)

Your Virtual Credit Manager

While automating things like remittance processing, credit application processing, and portfolio monitoring and analysis will help you improve DSO, there are two types of automation solutions that are proven to significantly improve cash flow. Enhance Collections Processes Beefing up you collection efforts is a sure way to improve cash flow.

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How to Accept Credit Card Payments Over the Phone

Fundera

How to Accept Credit Card Payments Over the Phone. In order to accept credit card payments over the phone, you’ll need to work with either a merchant account provider or payment service provider. How to Accept Credit Card Payments Over the Phone: What You Need.

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Mitigating Commercial Credit Fraud

Your Virtual Credit Manager

LSEG Risk Intelligence, which also offers anti-fraud solutions, shared in a webinar presented September 19, 2024, that: Business Email Compromise (55%) is the most common fraud type followed by Changes to Supplier Information (45%) and Account Take Over (22%) attacks Checks (65%) have the highest vulnerability to fraud, with ACH transactions (57%), (..)

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Help business clients use technology to improve cash flow

Abrigo

It gives immediate credit for deposits and can be useful to process down payments on large orders. Credit card payment acceptance : Fees will be higher than for ACH debit services, but accepting a credit card payment from a past due account can be worth it simply to secure the payment.

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What is Surcharging?

Lockstep

In short, surcharging is a way for businesses to recover the costs of accepting credit card payments. As electronic payments continue to outpace traditional methods of payment, surcharging is a smart and practical way for businesses to recover the costs associated with accepting credit card payments.

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Is Your AR Management up to the Task?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

That all the above consequences can present themselves simultaneously, only makes the downside worse. NACHA, the consortium that processes ACH payments in the US, which take two or three days to clear, now also offers Real Time Payments (RTP) so you can receive funds the same day, which can be important when rush orders are involved.

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Credit Card Processing Fees: The Lowdown on Every Provider

Fundera

Before we dive into credit card processing fees, let’s review the basics of how credit card processing works. This is a complicated topic, which is why we have a whole separate guide about how to accept credit card payments. Their credit card transaction fees are slightly lower than Dharma’s.