Keeping A Company Going While In A Recession.
A recession can affect companies in different ways, for some it can put them out of business, some can continue virtually as normal, such as the financial institutions including those that were saves by the government, whilst maybe the majority can keep open but discover that they have lower sales, increased stock prices and perhaps late payers and/or bad debts.
For this last group, managing the cash flow is vital and the skill to take care of Debt collection efficiently may be the difference between survival and failure. There seem to be three main choices for Debt collection: solicitor, Debt collection company and do it yourself.
When considering how to handle late payers, the companies that are feeling the effects of the recession must think hard if they want to stay on good relations with the customer for their products or services concerned or can they afford to have no more work from them. The latter option should be taken not emotionally because it could happen that the creditor organisation gets their reputation ruined in the process. This question is crucial as it can alter the path that is chosen in Debt collection, because, if the Debt collection company path is chosen then they must be sure that the company is registered with the Credit Services Association (CSA) as this shows that they are licensed by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to practice. This is not often clear from some web sites, but it can be checked out at the OFT and if there is an issuew then that Debt collection company should be avoided. They may have been refused a licence or had it withdrawn for using unethical practices when attempting to collect debts, which would most probably have a damaging effect on the creditor’s reputation.
Where a company has late payers but wants to retain their employees then they ought to use an economical option for Debt collection and this is where the DIY choice comes into the frame, as with this choice they are in in the driving seat of what is done in the composition of Debt collection letters to make sure that not only ethical wording is used, but also courteous and unemotional wording. The best choice would be to try and buy a package of Debt collection software along with a book on the subject from the same supplier, so that the software should compliment the book and vice versa. A good Debt collection software system should include templates for the Debt collection letters that are customised for each of the component parts in the Debt collection process, which should be fully explained in the book. Likewise the Debt collection software should be able to record what actions a user has carried out so that it can provide a record for use by a solicitor if the debtor has failed to respond to the DIY Debt collection process and they need to be taken to court.
If the creditor does have to use the services of a solicitor then that person will need to be sure that the creditor has done enough attempts to get the debtor to settle, even if it is just a part payment to be going on with, before they would take it further. As noted earlier, a good package of Debt collection software should be built around this legal route being opted for at some point in the Debt collection process and so it should be able to accept inputs for all key actions and then give an acceptable output.
It is hoped that most debtors would settle during the DIY Debt collection process and the legal step would only be needed for those who were still in business but stubborn.
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