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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…
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Advice On Calculating Late Payment Costs
Most business owners have experienced a late paying client at one point or another. Trying to recover the money can be a frustrating, time consuming and sometimes even a costly process. The latter can often put people off pursuing debts for fear of losing more money than the amount they are trying to recover. Fortunately,…
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New Research Highlights the Importance of Getting Paid on Time
The impact of late payments on cashflow is well-known, however a recent survey shows that late payments come with additional consequences for those businesses affected. The survey of 1,233 British businesses commissioned by employee spend management firm, Concur, found that 4 in 10 of those businesses were feeling the impact of late payments. The way…
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3 Top Tips To Help You Recover Debts
Being owed money is an unfortunate side effect of doing business for many company owners and recovering them can cause further pain when the process becomes a long, drawn out affair, which is often the case with bad customers. So help you recover you debts as quickly as possible here are 3 top tips to…
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3 Questions To Ask A Customer That Hasn’t Paid On Time
Sometimes customers decide not to pay, sometimes even if they have always paid on time before. When this happens it can be frustrating and time consuming trying to find out what might have gone wrong to cause them not to pay and then more time chasing the payment. Sometimes it could be all due to…
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Why You Should Keep Your Customer Up To Date On Late Payment Policy
If you have owned a business for a period of time, there is a good chance you have come across clients who either decide not to pay for the goods or services you provided or try to delay payments. This can sometimes set in motion a long the long and difficult process of debt recovery…