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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The sales team learned very quickly that eliminating the friction from the billing and payment processes facilitated earlier customer payments, hence larger commissions. The bottom line was a 13 percent reduction in Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) over a 6 month period in conjunction with invoice accuracy rising above 90 percent.

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Is Your O2C Process Optimized for Superior AR Performance?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Pricing Problems: A supplier of medical devices implemented a new ERP system, but flaws in the pricing application caused it to frequently default to list price (nearly every accounts had exceptions), thereby generating hundreds of incorrect invoices. Customers refused to pay as billed, frequently demanding corrected invoices.

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Difference Between Standard DSO vs Best Possible DSO

Gaviti

Days sale outstanding is one of the most widely used criteria for judging the effectiveness of your accounts receivable strategy. Most business managers use the standard DSO when running the calculations, but it is also possible to calculate the best DSO. What Is ‘Standard’ DSO?

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Effectively Collecting Receivables Is a Time Management Challenge

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Simply defined, collections is the process of contacting customers to secure payment for your invoices. For the most part collections deals with past due invoices — those not paid within established terms. Automation of the routine emails to the majority of your customers can be achieved easily in a number of ways.

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What is an Invoice? Best Practices, Tips, and Examples

Emagia

Timesheet Invoice Businesses use timesheet invoices to record the labor costs associated with specific clients in order to facilitate the billing process for those clients. Past-due Invoice Businesses use past-due invoices if customers do not pay their balance on time.