For a wholesale business, reconciling payments can become one of the most time-consuming parts of managing accounts receivable. When you’re dealing with hundreds of customers and potentially hundreds or thousands of invoices, manually matching payments to invoices can take hours ever...
For wholesale businesses, getting a new customer approved for trade credit can be surprisingly time-consuming. A customer submits a credit application, your team checks their details, someone reviews their information, references may need to be contacted, credit checks are performed, and t...
Across industries, finance teams are under increasing pressure. Economic conditions are tightening budgets, hiring is slowing, and yet the workload inside finance departments continues to grow. The result is a familiar challenge for many businesses: finance teams are being asked to do more...
Cash flow problems rarely appear overnight. For many businesses, they develop gradually. A few customers start paying slightly later than usual. Follow-up calls get pushed back. Overdue invoices become more common. Before long, debtor days have increased and cash flow begins to feel tighte...
Global economic uncertainty doesn’t just affect prices and supply chains. It can also have a major impact on something many businesses rely on every day: getting paid on time. From rising tariffs and shipping costs to inflation and ongoing market uncertainty, businesses across Austra...
Australia’s interest rates are climbing again. The Reserve Bank has lifted the cash rate to 4.35%, marking the third increase this year as inflation remains stubbornly high. For most people, this gets framed as a mortgage story. But for suppliers, wholesalers, and B2B sellers, the impact...
Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) has already transformed the way consumers shop. Now, it’s doing the same in B2B. Across Australia, more suppliers are exploring B2B BNPL as a way to offer flexible payment terms without taking on the risk that traditionally comes with trade credit. It’s fast b...
Offering trade credit has always been part of doing business in wholesale, manufacturing, and distribution. But in today’s environment, it’s no longer just a convenience it’s becoming the norm. Recent data shows that around 60% of B2B transactions in Australia are now conducted on cr...
