‘Our Favourites’
We all love our customers who pay to terms, we don’t need to remind them, payment comes through before or on the due date and we all want more of these customers, these are our favourites.
‘The Busy Guys’
We’ve all learnt to manage the customers who ‘thought they’d paid’, ‘meant to pay’ or ‘forgot to pay’, these guys are busy people, and we know they’ll pay. We schedule our phone calls every month, following the same process and the arrangement works, we know the routine.
‘The Delayers’
Yes, they’re the ones, they say they didn’t receive an invoice or they want a copy of a delivery docket, but they only tell you when chased for payment. We manage these guys like the busy guys, we know the routine!
‘The Jugglers’
Then we’ve got our customers who can have cash flow issues. These guys intend to pay and they take some chasing, the timing of payment varies but generally speaking we get there in the end. But sometimes these guys are too embarrassed to let you know the issues they have. Let’s face it, juggling cash flow happens to the best of us, but sometimes these guys can go silent, and when payments get too far overdue, the situation becomes awkward, for everyone. This is when we wish someone else would deal with the matter, right?
‘The Avoiders’
Another character we wish someone else would take off our hands is the ‘I avoid paying’ or ‘I won’t pay in full’ type of character. These are the guys you reflect upon and wish you had asked for payment up front or not been so keen to accept their urgent request. It may have been the first time you supplied to them and you were keen to take on a new customer. The excitement of a new account has now turned to regret at giving them credit terms.
We’re here to help
Don’t forget, we’re here to make it easier to reopen lines of communication with cash flow juggling customers, even if sometimes it means entering into a payment arrangement on your behalf.
For customers who are refusing to pay, we can have the difficult conversations so you don’t have to. We are used to managing these types of characters and we can have success where you may not have.
Debts aren’t just bad for business, they’re stressful.