82% of businesses fail due to poor cash flow. Most of these businesses are wholesale/suppliers who offer their goods on trade credit. Why do they fail? Late payments. You probably already knew this. You’re in the game yourself and face these problems on a regular basis. Late payments are...
Getting paid on time should be simple, but sadly, a lot of businesses that release stock on credit are left out in the cold waiting for their payment to come in for weeks. In a recent study on 150,000 small Australian businesses, 53% of all invoices sent were paid late by an average of 23 ...
A powerful addition to your collections toolkit is having a demand letter. This comes into play when you have tried everything to receive a payment from your customer/s. A letter of demand, also known as a dunning letter or debt collection letter, helps your B2B customers know that there a...
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...
