Analyse historical payment behaviour to understand which customers routinely stretch payments and identify trends – such as seasonal.
Create a library of customers’ payment run frequency and methods to determine expected payment dates for every open invoice. When this is combined with the insight into any stretching of payment terms, an accurate weekly or even daily receipt forecast becomes possible.
Future debtor balances can be predicted precisely to understand if invoice factoring facilities limits will be breached, or if customer credit balances will be exceeded.
This enables management to engage with financing providers to address any problems ahead of time. VAT and PAYE balances falling due in the future can be calculated to increase the accuracy of the forecast.