Better late than never

With the announcement yesterday in the Enterprise Bill that the Small Business Commissioner will be given a budget of £1.3m a year to help resolve disputes over poor payment practises by large companies, My Credit Controllers has warned that small businesses don't just struggle to get payments from large businesses. Other small or medium sized businesses can be just as much trouble writes My Credit Controllers Ltd.

 

Overdue Invoice Collected – Nearly Three Years Late

My Credit Controllers today announced that it has successfully collected a debt for a client that was more than 926 days overdue. 

The invoice was over 30 months late when it was submitted to the company’s web-based debt collection service by a small IT Consultancy that had done subcontract work for an SME Telecommunications company.

“People don’t realise that you can chase an unpaid invoice any time up to the sixth anniversary of its due date, so it’s always worth a try.” said Sam White, CEO of My Credit Controllers.   “Getting help from a professional debt recovery business can be just what’s needed to get your invoice to the top of your customer’s to-do list.  In this case we got full payment of the outstanding £40,000 debt within 10 working days of being instructed via our online service – CreditXS.”

The treatment of suppliers by big names such as Tesco, Diageo and Imbev has also been under the spotlight.

Sam White added: “This case demonstrates that late payment is not exclusively a problem of large household names trampling all over their small suppliers.  A late payment is just as likely to come from a small or medium sized business.”

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Contact – Samantha White, [email protected], 0845 2251145



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