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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

It is important to keep in mind that trade credit — selling on terms in a B2B environment — is greatly affected by the transactional process. it just might help them pay you sooner! When changing the commission structure represents a major change for the Salesforce, a graduated approach over one or two quarters is recommended.

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How to collect past due invoices in 5 steps (with templates)

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Past due carries significant implications in the realm of financial transactions. It signifies unpaid invoices or payments that have exceeded their designated due date, leading to a disruption in the smooth flow of cash within a business.

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Mitigating Commercial Credit Fraud

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Those policies and procedures, however, also need to include practices designed to mitigate the risk of fraudulent transactions. (Jp When a fraud isn’t quickly detected, legal action to recover past due invoices can impact unaware customers.

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Position Your AR to Enhance Working Capital

Your Virtual Credit Manager

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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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. Be decisive and action-oriented.

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An Inconvenient Truth about the Cash Conversion Cycle

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Share The Importance of Aligning Sales and Credit It is important to keep in mind that trade credit — transactions between companies — is very different from commercial lending. With trade credit, the transaction involves the purchase of goods and services, not money. The money advanced is the credit being granted.

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Is Your O2C Process Optimized for Superior AR Performance?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

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.