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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

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There was a lot of gnashing of teeth on the part of the sales team at the beginning, but invoice accuracy improved in each subsequent month as sales began transmitting accurate pricing and terms to order processing, thereby reducing downstream disputes and payment deductions. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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Position Your AR to Enhance Working Capital

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If you charged shipping costs, but your agreement is to bill a “delivered” price, the customer will deduct the freight from the face amount of the invoice. Clean up your AR Ledger In a perfect world, your AR Ledger would contain only whole, current invoices. No seriously past due invoices and no “Clutter.”

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Is Your O2C Process Optimized for Superior AR Performance?

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High Deduction Volumes: Consumer goods manufacturers and distributors, and in particular those selling to chain stores, often incur high volumes of payment deductions. Investigating and resolving deductions alone is much too costly. How much time is dedicated to collections versus payment deduction/dispute resolution?

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It's Time to Give Your AR Ledger a Spring Cleaning

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Subscribe now The Problem with AR Clutter In a perfect world, your AR Ledger would contain only whole, current invoices; or at least nothing seriously past due. Invoice balances that remain unpaid 60 or 90 or more days beyond their due date are not providing any benefits.

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Be Prepared to Shoot Down Your Customer's Payment Excuses

Your Virtual Credit Manager

You want to collect any small partial balances and recently past due invoices as well as the oldeest and largest past due balances. Ensure the customer has received ALL the invoices and other documentation requested, and that there are no unresolved disputes or open deductions.

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AR Data Management, AR Automation, & Accelerating Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

What’s Involved in “Cleaning” an AR Portfolio In a perfect world, your AR Ledger would contain only whole, current invoices; or at least nothing seriously past due. Share How to Clean Up Your AR Ledger Launch a collection program to collect all past due invoices at least 15 days late.

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An Inconvenient Truth about the Cash Conversion Cycle

Your Virtual Credit Manager

There was a lot of gnashing of teeth on the part of the sales team at the beginning, but invoice accuracy improved in each subsequent month as the sales began transmitting accurate pricing and terms to order processing, thereby reducing downstream disputes and payment deductions.