[blacksheep]

hi all ,do any of you thats in business to credit checks on a client before you take them on,or is this automatic ,or can you sus them out by talking to them before hand, which may give you an incling wheather their bad payers or not

[Tim Downer]

Hi

Yes we do credit checks on all our clients. They have to fill in an account application form, which they would list all their company details, bank accounts etc. On the form too is a place to list two major companies with whom they have trading facilities with, including details of how long the account has been open and how large the account is. We then contact the parties involved and get them to tell us how good their accounts are and that they are good payers etc etc.

Once an account has been opened, however, we set a level for that company and as long as they keep paying and the invoices are under that set level, we can do their work. Once they go over that credit level.....no more work until they pay!!

That is basically how we run our credit accounts and checks.

Regards

Tim

[blacksheep]

thanks for this info timbob, i have been to the printers today, & every time i THINK i have turned a conour theres something else .lol  i thought i had only disciplinery procdures left to put in place ,well well  i did not think a company would give this info freely, so hope you dont mind if i adopt this and draw up some sort of application account form myself seems to make good business sence regards marie