All businesses face cash flow issues during challenging economic climates, making it especially difficult to collect customer payments within the agreed-upon terms. To optimize your collection efforts and cash flow, it is essential to reevaluate the priorities of your collection department, including the utilization of third-party collection agencies. Making timely referrals to these agencies for… Read more »
Machine Learning in Credit & Collection Scoring
Managing receivables is a crucial aspect of B2B financial management. Late or unpaid invoices and bad debts can significantly impact cash flow, causing businesses to struggle to meet their financial obligations. Companies rely on various tools, including payment and credit scoring, to prioritize their B2B collection activities to stay on top of outstanding payments. Payment… Read more »
12 Step Program to Collect A/R Faster
The Debtor’s Psychology A debtor figures that if their account is 180-360 days old, they’ll never have to pay it, and certainly not the full amount. Chronic slow-paying customers can be re-trained to be profitable, long-term relationships, but they require constant attention so they do not age out to become bad debts. With a little… Read more »
9 Best Collection and Accounts Receivable Metrics
Understanding DSO, DDO, and Other Accounts Receivable KPIs A/R turnover – the credit-to-cash cycle – and working capital are critical to your business, so it is essential to monitor the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other metrics that track your company’s credit, collections, and deduction management health. In addition, businesses have become more complex, so receivable performance… Read more »
Leib Receives Coveted A.M. Best “Expert” Award for the 15th Year
We are proud to announce that A.M. Best has, for the 15th straight year, selected Leib Solutions as one of a handful of companies in the world receiving the coveted “Expert Service Provider” designation awarded for business debt collection and accounts receivable services. Leib Solutions has been in the commercial collection industry for over 35… Read more »
Credit and Collection Scoring Best Practices
There are numerous reasons to use automated credit scoring in your credit (and collection) operations, including faster and better quality decisions, enhanced customer service, more effective compliance and controls, and significantly reduced overhead. Employing credit scoring in a B2B environment is credit management “Best Practice,” especially if you have many customers. Using Smyyth’s Carixa cloud… Read more »
Commercial Vs Consumer Collection Agencies
If you are in business, there will come a time when you need to enlist the services of a collection agency to help recover your past-due receivables and bad debts. So how do you find the right one? Commercial debt usually involves significant amounts and often complex circumstances that can lead to financial issues for… Read more »
Accounts Receivable Automation Tools, AI and RPA
Advanced technologies, including robotic process automation (RPA), will forever change accounts receivable, collections, and deduction management. Like most other back-office functions, receivables management was a manual affair as recently as twenty or thirty years ago, working off printed agings, typing reconciliations and letters and mailing or faxing. It’s hard to believe that tools MS Excel,… Read more »
Statute of Limitations
Statute of Limitations by State For Commercial Collections The Statute of Limitations for lawsuits varies by state, and runs anywhere from 3 to 15 years, after which the debt is “time-barred,” and you cannot sue. You should use every legal means at your disposal, of course, but if you wait too long and rely on… Read more »
Collection Gridlock Causes Bad Debts
Eliminate Collection Gridlock to Reduce Bad Debts Frauds are rare. If you perform an easy credit check, you will have very few out-and-out scams, which we’ll define as businesses that order your products, knowing that they will never pay you. The odds of getting your money in these cases is nil. Chronic Slow Pays. The… Read more »
