Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 16, 2024

Lack of Primary Documents Most of the time it won’t matter if don’t have a signed credit agreement or contract, but it will if you are forced to place an account with a collection agency, and even more so if you have to go to court to recover your receivables. Your terms and conditions should always be crystal clear.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Using a report generator, it should not be difficult to create a report in CSV or XLS format that both lists and totals past due invoices by account. Once you create the past due report and the templates for your notices, it is a simple matter to generate the notices, personalize them and email them.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Orders should be assessed promptly to ensure they comply with credit approval parameters, such as sufficient credit limits and the absence of past due invoices beyond the grace period. Orders on credit hold must be addressed quickly, and unresolved issues should involve communication with sales and customer contacts.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JUNE 4, 2024

Successful collections require the coordination of a variety of activities: timely and accurate invoices and payment posting, monthly statements, email reminders and other dunning notices as well as telephone calls. Of all these items, making the necessary phone calls generates the greatest value in respect to recovering past due invoices.

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Emagia

JUNE 19, 2023

Invoice is an important factor in financing in many industries. Invoices serve as a record of transactions between businesses and clients. An invoice is a document that provides information of products and services provided to a client. Invoicing is important for managing cash flow. What is an Invoice?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

These customers will require more intense follow up of past due invoices (e.g., at 4-7 days past due versus the two weeks or more that is typical). As electronic storage of documents and EZ Pass type toll collection proliferated, the demand for this paper declined substantially.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 31, 2023

Paperwork issues will make it harder for your customer to match your invoice to their purchase order and receiving documents. If a customer is constantly loosing your invoices, you should send them duplicates as part of your follow-up process. In the final analysis, this is all about situational awareness.

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The Esker Blog

JANUARY 10, 2023

This often leaves customers without noticeably high balances or long past-due invoices receiving limited collections touches, forcing collectors to be more reactive than proactive.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Consequently, most businesses need to designate somebody to handle the collection of past due invoices. You should insist they immediately provide documentation to prove that the debt should be invalidated. It behooves that person to put some thought into what they are trying to accomplish.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 3, 2023

Share How to Clean Up Your AR Ledger Launch a collection program to collect all past due invoices at least 15 days late. Match as many unapplied payments and unapplied credit memos to open invoices, deductions, and debit memos as possible. Clear from your AR ledger as many of the clutter transactions as possible.

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Lendio

MARCH 31, 2023

On every invoice you send , you should remind customers of these terms, including the payment due date and any penalties or fees associated with late payments. Having these payment terms clearly documented is important if you run into payment issues.

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Credit & Management Systems, Inc.

JULY 26, 2017

We’d love to chat about how your system can aid in streamlining your new account approval, current customer risk assessment, and/or collections monitoring processes so you are receiving maximum benefit. Are you taking advantage of these features?:

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Fundera

AUGUST 29, 2017

When working with a factoring company , the lender actually purchases your outstanding invoices outright in exchange for a flat sum, as well as for a percentage of payments received. Also, invoice factoring is typically used for delinquent or past due invoices, while asset-based lenders will probably look at the sum total of your receivables.

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Fundera

DECEMBER 2, 2015

For invoice factoring, the lender actually purchases your outstanding invoices outright in exchange for a flat sum, as well as for a percentage of payments received. Also, invoice factoring is typically used for delinquent or past due invoices, while asset-based lenders will probably look at the sum total of your receivables.

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Fundera

JUNE 16, 2020

Address any invoices that have gone past due quickly and courteously. Just like your customers are more likely to pay you quickly if you invoice soon after completing work for them, they’re also likely to take care of any past-due invoices if you ask them before too much time has passed.

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Fundera

JANUARY 24, 2019

As a result, it is not at all uncommon to see invoices from vendors that include a 10% or even 15% penalty charged on all overdue invoices. Some accounting software even offers settings that implement those penalties on past due invoices automatically.

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Fundera

APRIL 24, 2017

As a result, it is not at all uncommon to see invoices from vendors that include a 10% or even 15% penalty charged on all overdue invoices. Some accounting software even offers settings that implement those penalties on past due invoices automatically.

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