- Set out clear credit terms and a credit limit to ensure creditors pay you promptly.
- Check any new customers' credit score using a reference checking agency.
- Set out your terms and conditions - as well as late-payment interest in writing. To secure your cash flow, you need to collect payments effectively.
- Specify various payment options to make it as easy as possible for customers to pay you.
- Offer discounts for early payment, or other incentives such as money off a customer's next order to avoid late payment.
- Keep track of or recording when payments are due and send reminders if necessary including late payment interest charge if the delay exceeds your agreed payment period.
- If a debt remains unpaid, call and email alert to customer you are serious about it by employing a debt collection agency.
- Send a formal letter to inform that you will take legal execution to demand for payment if the customer still refuses to pay.
- Buy trade credit insurance to protect yourself against customer insolvency. Insurers typically cover between 75 and 95 per cent of the risk, while you cover the remaining.
Account Receivables Management refers to the set of policies, procedures, and practices employed by a company with respect to managing sales offered on credit. It encompasses the evaluation of client credit worthiness and risk, establishing sales terms and credit policies, and designing an appropriate receivables collection process.