Keeping debt low through proactive credit control

Aged debt can stack up, adding to your liabilities and reducing the health of your overall balance sheet – so it is important to tackle late payment head on.

Being proactive with your credit control procedures and debt management helps you speed up payment, reduce your debtor days and rein in your overall debt as a business

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To improve the efficiency of your credit control:

• Make your payment terms clear – state your payment terms on all invoices and create a credit control policy that’s part of the terms & conditions that customers sign up to.
• Run regular debtor reports – check your list of late invoices to see which customers are the late payers, and where the big debts are that need to be collected.
• Be proactive in chasing late payment – don’t be shy about asking a customer to pay their bill. Set up notifications and schedules to remind yourself to chase late-payers.
• Automate your credit control tasks – cloud accounting platforms have built-in tools or automated credit control integrations that can automatically chase your late-paying customers as soon as an invoice is     overdue.

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Talk to us about enhancing your credit control

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If late payment and aged debt is weighing heavily on your balance sheet, we’ll help you set up the debtor reports and credit control processes needed to reduce this debt.