Monday, July 20, 2015

Why Outsourcing Accounts Receivables is a Good Thing

When you own a small business, there are all kinds of demands on your time and energy. The most important things you can be doing with your time include:

l  Product development                  

l  Marketing
l  Raising capital

All of these are things that are going to make your business more successful and more profitable and to enable it to keep right on growing and thriving.

Unfortunately, though, these all-important things aren’t the only things you have to get done on a day-to-day basis. You also, if you are going to survive, have to think about collections, which garner money you otherwise miss out on.

One of the best things you can do for your business and for yourself is to outsource your accounts receivables. This will save you so much time- time you can devote to improving your business as a whole.

When you outsource your accounts receivable, all of the following are things you no longer have to take care of in-house:

l  Creating and mailing statements
l  Following up on unpaid statements
l  Sending unpaid statements to collections
l  Seeing the collections process through

Furthermore, outsourcing enables you to gather statistics related to your clients, their payments, and more...all of which can help you to make smart decisions about how to proceed in the future. You could do that yourself, but it would take up even more of your valuable time.

Perhaps most importantly, outsourcing can also give you access to the money that you are owed much sooner! This can lead to you having more capital, which you can use to expand or just to get back in the black, depending on how things are going right now.

You can even have your outsourcing companies perform extensive credit checks on all potential clients, protecting you from doing business with those who are more likely to cost you money than to make you money.


If you’re convinced of the benefits of outsourcing (and you really should be!), the next step is simply to find a good, reliable AR outsourcing company to work with. The sooner you do that, the sooner you can start enjoying these awesome benefits.

1 comment:

  1. I agree and your bullet points are making it more comprehensible. Choosing to outsource your accounts receivables free you up time and the time freed could be used on more important matters.

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