Should you offer a 90 day payment plan to help your small business

| Sunday, September 11, 2011
By Wymetto Barnard


Let's watch the trend building for the small company. This trend is offering a 90 day payment plan for your patrons because credit is so difficult to receive in the current day's commercial times. People are in a finance stress and are on the lookout for options to buy a service. People making decisions based on options concerning how to pay for the service to do minimal damage to their credit and wallet.

Folks are attempting to hang on to funds. We can not know what tomorrow brings and the phobia of the Visa being tapped out and we understand that applying for another card isn't smart or wise. Most people can not even get approved for another Visa and the phobia of another standard payment for the following two and a half years is scary. This is one reason I like the 90 day payment plan because we will be able to purchase a service specially in a critical situation but have it paid off without effecting your credit score.

Credit cards are meant to be paid off in the 30 days. Do folks basically do that? No - the average card debts per individual is fifteen thousand seven hundred. I wouldn't accept that if I didn't go look at my very own. Folks are realizing this now and are paying them down while they are hording cash.

The way these companies work is offering the merchant the ability to let the client pay for the service and stretch the payments into 4 prepared payments. Most ask for 33 % down and the leftover balance divided equally for 30, 60, then the 90th day. This takes the pressure off the client while the merchant is paid in full in forty eight to seventy 2 hours with no recourse to the business. They do not have to chase people writing bad checks because they have been paid in full already.

The firms that offer that kind of service are in the danger management business. They have recently calculated the p.c. of people who wouldn't pay them back and have an entire department to handle these hoi polloi. They do keep a watch on the merchant to be certain they aren't doling out funds to all types of people knowing they haven't any desire to pay off the loan. Also lending to family members who also already know they're not paid back the funds.

This 90 day program is excellent for the merchant because it will raise sales by 15 to 25 percent. People who would walk out the door and who doesn't have the money and are in a money position to choose an option company or come up with the famous plan B which is funds lost for the merchant. This plan also let's the merchant keep it's customer base happy by providing this great service. You commitment brings your customer back and and purchaser service is a lost art. Competition are watching and also have to accommodate to today's economic times and are looking for payment solutions.




About the Author:



0 comments:

Post a Comment