Help With Bad Debt Management
There are ways for your company to get help with bad debt management. Do not think you have to be the bad guy and do all the phone calls yourself to customers who are behind on their payments. Although you may not want to keep their business if they are not going to pay, many people are just in a bind right now. They will pay when they are not struggling to make ends meet. This may not help you right now, when you need your money to pay your bills, but in the future, when things settle down, you may want this customer to do business with you again.
When you need help, contact a California collection agency, and let them make your phone calls. They have no standing with the customer and therefore have nothing to lose. They do not know the customer, so they cannot be made to feel sorry for them about their predicament. An added bonus is these people make this type of phone call all day long and are used to being told off, hung up on and given a sob story. They just keep dialing and smiling.
It can be very hard to contact people you know and try to get money from them. Let a collection agency do it for you. You will not be stressed or feel bad when it is not you doing the talking. Even though you will have to pay them part of what they bring in, you will still end up with more than nothing.