Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 14, 2023

Collectors spend most of their time asking for payments While it is true collectors are constantly requesting payment of past due balances, once that request is made they end up spending most of their time resolving disputes and invoice discrepancies.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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.” First focus on the “problem” accounts with significant past due as well as any other accounts that have aged over 60 days past due.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 31, 2023

The benefit of that is a reduction in the volume of past due invoices as well as the collection efforts necessary to secure your cash flow. By understanding the circumstances behind your customers’ late payments, you will be able to find remedies that mitigate against future late payments.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JULY 2, 2024

For debt recovery efforts to remain on track, you must promptly follow up every past due invoice within set parameters, every promise to pay, and every other collection activity that does not result in a timely payment. If you trust their promise to pay, you can release the order.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 22, 2024

When a fraud isn’t quickly detected, legal action to recover past due invoices can impact unaware customers. And, besides the financial loss, a fraud can impact your customer relationships in the form of mistrust and damaged communications.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 4, 2023

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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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. Most small companies, however, do have accounting software, and most of the time that software will have a report generator feature.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 5, 2024

If you send an email or text you can attach a copy of their account statement and/or invoice ccopies. On a phone call, you should summarize all amounts past due, such as “you owe $10,000 that is over 30 days past due” or reference one or two large past due invoices (number, amount and due date), but no more.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JULY 16, 2024

Keep these three things in mind: Identify ALL the invoices that are outstanding and past due. You want to collect any small partial balances and recently past due invoices as well as the oldeest and largest past due balances. Don’t just focus on the oldest items or largest items.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MAY 28, 2024

Quality control issues that slip through production and or arise during distribution are not usually discovered until after the invoice is billed — most likely by the collector.

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Enterprise Recovery: Accounts Receivable

JULY 17, 2023

It's crucial to provide a detailed process for escalating past-due invoices beyond accounts receivable to collections. Your A/R department, however, can only do so much to ensure that your business receives the payment it deserves and maintains a healthy cash flow.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 25, 2023

There are a number of benefits from using the Sales Team to collect from their customers: A substantial reduction in the out-of-pocket cost of Collections Increased attention by Sales on creditworthy customers at the expense of the marginal accounts Increased involvement of Sales to leverage their relationship with the customer to collect past due (..)

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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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Eastern Credit Management Services

JULY 15, 2019

Fret no longer, as this entry in our blog is going to explore how to deal with customers who keep breaking promises to pay on their past due invoice and how a collection agency can help. They will obtain a promise to pay a past due invoice from their customer and wait for the money to arrive.

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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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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 16, 2024

More About Purchasing Credit Reports In Summary… Businesses leave significant amounts of money on the table by not employing collection best practices and rigorously pursing all past due invoices. Effective debt collection requires a delicate balance between credit analysis and strategic collection efforts.

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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). However, substantial additional Collection activity may be required. every few days versus weekly), and collection follow up (e.g.,

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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. In many cases, your new customer credit evaluation will identify those accounts you can expect to pay late, but that is a risk businesses are often willing to take, and reasonably so.

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Fundera

MAY 24, 2018

Take control of your invoices. Collecting past due invoices can be difficult. The greater the amount on an invoice, the more difficult it will be for your client to pay. While this won’t help you collect past due invoices, it will provide you with cash flow during your off season.

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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

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. Please share this newsletter with your small business customers.

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Lendio

JANUARY 11, 2023

I’m not talking a week or two: I’m talking about invoices that are a month late or more. When that happens, I take the following steps to getting seriously past-due invoices paid. Step 1 — Identify Overdue Invoices. 30 days after invoice due date if still unpaid. No searching necessary.

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Gaviti

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The main difference between these two calculations is that best days sales outstanding does not take into consideration past due invoices. DSO Formula (Ending Total Receivables ÷ Total Credit Sales) x Number of Days What Is the ‘Best Possible’ DSO? This creates an ideal to aspire to, but it’s important to remain realistic.

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Emagia

JUNE 19, 2023

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.

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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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Credit & Management Systems, Inc.

JULY 26, 2017

: Our electronic credit file stores customer data – even scanned documents – allowing you fingertip access to customer files and the ability to report on important data elements across your database; Our user-defined modeling for scoring, credit limits and terms allows you to streamline your account approval and evaluation process, ensuring (..)

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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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Lendio

MARCH 31, 2023

When late payments reach three to four weeks (or longer) past the due date, it may be necessary to take certain steps to get your payment. Identifying past-due invoices is the first step in the process, and can be a daunting task if you keep your records manually.

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Fundera

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

If you assess interest, late fees, or penalties on past due invoices, you need to spell this out on your invoice terms and conditions and also follow through on collecting these additional payments. Interest, Late Fees, and Penalties.

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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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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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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 21, 2025

the credit limit is sufficient and any past due invoices are within your grace period) must necessarily be executed in a timely manner. If the expectation is to ship orders within 24 hours or less of receipt, your process for making sure the order is within credit approval parameters (e.g.,

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