Category: Chasing Payments

  • How to improve your business’ cashflow at Christmas

    Use the tips and advice in this blog to help your business to maintain a healthy cashflow this Christmas. Most businesses will experience some level of seasonality over the Christmas period. For many retail and catering businesses it is their busiest time of year, but for businesses in other industries, sales can come to a…

  • It will soon be compulsory for bailiffs to wear body-worn cameras

    The Ministry of Justice have announced that it is to be compulsory for bailiffs recovering debts from private homes to wear body cameras. The decision, which was announced on July 22nd2019, was made in response to complaints about threatening behaviour from unscrupulous enforcement agents. Here at Churchill Recovery we believe that debt collection should always…

  • How to charge interest on late payments

    Charging interest on late payments is an effective way of protecting your business’ cashflow. UK businesses of all shapes and sizes are suffering due to the country’s late payment culture. 80% of small businesses are paid late, and on average, SMEs are owed £6,142in late payments at any one time. Being paid late can have…

  • How do late payments affect small businesses?

    Chasing late payments wastes time and money for small businesses, as well as posing a serious threat to their survival. Late paying customers are a frustrating and worrying problem that most small business owners are all too familiar with. In fact, research shows that on average small UK businesses are owed £24,841in late payments, and…

  • Tips for encouraging customers to pay on time

    Late payments can have a dangerous knock-on effect to your business’ cashflow, as well as costing you time and money to chase them up. The safest way to do business is always to take money upfront. Failing this, it’s important to take whatever measures you can to encourage customers to pay you on time, every…

  • 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…