In industries, such as wholesale and distribution, credit is seen as a necessity when doing business. Credit offers you a way to sell more to your customers and grow faster. However, sending out goods before receiving payment has its risks. It leaves you open to late payments, and in some ...
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will be rolling out Director Identification Numbers (DINs) in 2021. The introduction of DINs is to help address illegal phoenix activity and help protect businesses from being affected by the damage it causes.  The Australian Business Registry Servic...
If your overdue invoices are building up, no doubt you have looked at ways of automating the process using some type of reminder process. This most likely has been out of your accounting software; however, you may not have turned them on as they don’t provide the right solution for you a...
Does the following sound like you? Your credit agreements have evolved over time from a word doc to a PDF that needs to be printed off, filled in, signed and scanned back. Your customers are still printing, filling-in, signing, scanning and sending back incomplete credit apps. Missing info...
For business owners who are looking to obtain a loan for their small businesses, checking your business credit score is a critical step in this process. Here is why. When you apply for a business loan, the lenders take a number of different factors into consideration, this most likely will...
Collecting payment on a job/project you have worked on can be a difficult task at times. However, most of the time these delays happen because of simple misunderstandings and poor communication. A quick phone call can clear these things up. Although sometimes a phone call isn’t enough. H...
Dealing with late payments and unpaid invoices is one of the most common problems business owners face day-to-day. Late payments to small businesses negatively affect their operations. They have staff to pay, equipment costs to cover, and various other bills. If paid late, the demand for t...
Businesses are slowly getting better at paying on time, but sadly for wholesale distributors, this is far from the truth. Wholesalers are still suffering from the late-paying habits of their retail customers. According to Xero’s recent study, the retail sector remains the slowest payment...
No matter what trade you’re in, we all face a common issue… Not being paid on time. Or sometimes, not even getting paid at all! When you’re busy finishing up on a job and booking new ones, there is nothing worse than having to worry about chasing up customers for their late invoices ...
