Debt collection · Manufacturing & wholesale
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Manufacturers and wholesalers are the economy's unofficial banks: goods shipped on 30-to-90-day terms, credit limits stretched by good customers and abused by bad ones. When an account stops paying, you're usually owed across a ledger of invoices — and possibly still holding purchase orders they expect you to fulfil.
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Sound familiar?
- A trade account sliding from 30 days to 90-plus while orders keep coming
- Credit limit quietly blown across a dozen invoices
- Goods delivered, signed for, and disputed only when payment is due
- Rumours the customer is in trouble — and you're unsecured
What good recovery looks like in your sector
Two levers matter disproportionately in this sector. First, retention of title: if your terms include a properly drafted ROT clause, the goods may still be yours until paid for — which can mean recovering stock from a failing customer's warehouse while unsecured creditors wait for the administrator. Acting on ROT is time-critical and evidence-driven (identifiable goods, terms incorporated into the deal), so a recovery partner who knows it moves in days, not months. Second, ledger-level collection: pursuing the account as a whole — with a stop on further credit — converts a drifting relationship into a managed exit or a disciplined, paying customer. Statutory interest per invoice makes the drift expensive for them either way.
Common questions
My terms have a retention of title clause. What does that actually get me?
Potentially the goods back — if the clause was incorporated into the contract, the goods are identifiable as yours, and you act before they're sold on or consumed. In an insolvency it can be the difference between recovering stock and joining the unsecured queue. Speed and evidence decide it.
Should I keep supplying an account that's behind?
Not on credit. A stop-supply combined with formal recovery is the standard play: it caps your exposure and creates the pressure that gets the ledger addressed. Genuine customers negotiate a plan; the others were never going to pay for the next delivery either.
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