If you are a business owner with experience, you will know that there are always those clients who pay on time and those that try to buy some extra time. If you are a small business owner, the latter can end up killing your business if you are not careful so when should you use a debt collection agency to recover the money owing?
Of course a lot depends on the amount of money you are owing. Hiring a debt collection agency to recover your debt should be a worthwhile investment that is more than covered. It is also important to try all reasonable avenues to recover the debt yourself first if you don’t wish to ruin the relationship you have with them permanently. Taking proceedings of any kind against a client or supplier will almost certainly result in a permanent end to the relationship with that client.
If you have exhausted all avenues yourself and it is worth your time using a debt recovery agent, then this can bring about a speedy resolution. Even the prospect of dealing with a professional debt recovery firm is enough to make most business owners pay up.
If your client is in some kind of financial difficulty, a debt recovery firm can at least look into their financial status and find out if there is any prospect of recovering what is owed. If a business is about to go bankrupt then debts will be written off, therefore you can save money paying legal fees and chasing money that may never be recovered.