Payment workflows (like sending customer invoices with payment requests) are an integral part of your business sales cycle and customer experience. Many companies that accept B2B payments – or provide their goods and services before collecting payments – need to think about the full customer journey, including billing workflows.What are Workflows?A workflow is any repeatable process your business uses to …
7 Small Business Payment Options to Keep Customers Happy
Is your small business wasting employee time on things like follow up calls on unpaid bills? If you want to expand, you need to accomplish more with a small staff and small business payment options that let your team do more with less.Small Business Payments: Reasons for Late/Unpaid BillsSmall businesses need to collect every dollar possible. That’s why late payments …
Business Team Structure for Digital Billing and Payments
New software opens the door to easier workflow processes and simpler daily tasks. This can impact team structures and job titles or even create new responsibilities – like making sure tools are working right and providing a good return on investment. Right now, the most impactful way people are using tech in business is with digital communication. Channels like email …
The Payment Ecosystem Explained: How Your Business Gets Paid
All companies take payments but many don’t understand how the payment industry works behind-the-scenes. The digital payments landscape is complex, and with new technologies emerging, the greater payment ecosystem continues to evolve. It’s true you don’t need to be a payment expert to run a business, manage an office or head up an accounts receivable team. However, being familiar with …
Email Deliverability and Your Payment Communication Strategy
How confident are you that payment reminders, invoices and other business communications are making it to the inbox? Email deliverability is how your emails consistently end up in the right place. Do you know what steps vendors take to ensure customer communications work the way they need to?Email as a Digital Payment StrategyEmail is an essential channel for customer engagement. …
Use Pay by Text (and More!) to Engage and Delight Customers
Consumer preferences have changed. Most people want the fastest, easiest way to interact with your company – that means paper statements and telephone calls shouldn’t be your only way to engage with customers. Allowing consumers to pay by text is an excellent tool to reach consumers, boost engagement numbers and ultimately collect more payments on time.Use Cases For Text Messaging …
3 Payment Software Adoption Goals for Small to Midsize Businesses
If you are evaluating your company’s payment software and communication workflows, you need to look not only at existing processes, but at the tools you’re using to engage customers. Many managers have inherited payment software solutions they never would have chosen or don’t fully understand how to use. This causes problems in an organization from expensive or inefficient processes to …
8 Digital Methods of Payment to Upgrade Customer Experience
There’s nothing more frustrating than customers failing to pay you on time for goods or services you’ve already provided. Fortunately, emerging technology options and methods of payment can shorten the average number of days it takes to collect a bill. Adopting omnichannel payment methods makes it easy for everyone to pay the way they prefer, from younger digital natives who …
10 Ways Payment Reminders Accelerate Your Billing Cycle (Plus Templates!)
Updated September 2022 Payment reminders are the simplest, most flexible solution to reduce late (or delinquent) payments. So why aren’t businesses taking full advantage of this simple, easy, effective tactic? Some business owners are nervous about new software that requires extensive training to launch. Others are still operating on manual or paper reminders that don’t reach customers before their payment …
Strategies for Successful Payment Request Emails: Timing, Cadence, and Content Best Practices
For decades, paper bills and telephone calls have been the standard tactic for collecting payments. Now, payment request email options are available (and expected) by consumers. Using email to request payments and software that can capture customer payment information via email is popular, simple to implement, and creates a quicker way for people to pay their bills.Why Use Payment Request …
Payment Management Software Features: Organizational Hierarchy
Nobody’s perfect. Human error should be an expected occurrence in any organization. Sometimes, though, that error can cost your company money, time and resources to correct. That’s why managers and business owners are turning to payment management software to help keep things organized. PDCflow’s organizational hierarchy keeps consumer payment details in order and allows company administration to control staff access …
Simplified Workflow Management for AR Billing
Every popular technology introduced tends to follow a well-known principle called the adoption curve. This curve shows the segments of the population that follow a technology trend – from innovators and early adopters to the last segment, laggards.Email and text messages have now been around for decades. Even the laggards of the technology curve use digital tools for work, personal …
