Category: Recover Your Debts

  • 3 steps to determining a customer’s creditworthiness

    If you supply customers with a product or service, then offering a credit facility is a great selling point, but it doesn’t come without its risks. Whilst it is impossible to completely safeguard yourself from non-paying customers, it pays to have a system in place for checking a company’s credentials before you commit to working…

  • CCJs Issued Against Businesses on The Rise Again

    After a long period when the number of CCJs issued against businesses was in decline, the third quarter saw a sharp increase. This suggests that companies are currently far more willing to take their claims as far as a CCJ than they have been for quite some time. 32,629 business CCJs were issued in the…

  • 3 Things You May Not Know About the Enforcement Process

    If you have taken someone who owes you money to court and you win the case, then the debtor has only a limited time to pay you what they owe or face the prospect of bailiffs coming to their premises. This part of the enforcement process is governed by the following actions you may not…

  • Recovering Debt from Outside Within the EU

    Recovering debt from companies outside the UK is no easy task for the average business owner but despite the popular myth that it is impossible to recover money from foreign companies, the EU does offer similar protections to those in the UK. All this of course may change if the UK fails to reach a…

  • Lack of Awareness Of Late Payment Law Could Be Costing You Money

    Late paying customers are not only a nuisance, they can also cost your business more than the sums they owe. Fortunately there are laws to protect your business from late paying customers and it is worth reading up on them if you ever need to take advantage. So the first thing to do if you…

  • Should You Be Prepared To Do A Deal With A Late Paying Client?

    There are a multitude of reasons why a client doesn’t pay an invoice from simply being an oversight to an attempt to cheat you out of money that is rightfully yours. So in what circumstances should you be prepared to make a deal over an unpaid invoice? This decision is a difficult one to make…

  • Don’t Want To Go To Court Over Debt? Issue A Winding Up Order Instead

    If one of your business customers owes you money and you don’t want to go through all the hassle and expense of taking them to county court and through a long litigation process, then a winding up order could be a better alternative. Winding up orders can be used when a company owes a debt…

  • 3 Occasions When You Might Need Help From A Debt Recovery Agency

    Occasionally in business you will have the misfortune of dealing with clients who regularly pay late or worse still don’t pay at all. Attempting to get rogue clients or customers to pay up can sap the energy out of your business and an increase in stress levels. You also have the added dilemma of not…