It may be February but it’s not too late to make some new year’s resolutions! In fact, February can be the ideal time to kickstart positive habits and make the changes you’ve been thinking about for the past few months. The holiday season is now well and truly over, and clients, suppliers and employees have […]
The final quarter of 2018 for small businesses didn’t exactly present the best outcome. Court actions and judgments across Australia (except WA) have increased significantly in the 4th quarter of 2018 in comparison to the previous year. In addition, the average payment default value and cancelled unincorporated entities have increased. Download the infographic New South […]
Do you review your customers on an annual basis? ApplyEasy makes this easy with the Credit Limit Reassessment feature. This new feature acts as a reminder tool to notify you when a customer is coming up to the anniversary of their initial approval. You are then provided with the ability to re-evaluate the customer’s credit […]
The PPSA was introduced to ‘level the playing field’ between unsecured and secured creditors on the insolvency of a customer. By far the greatest benefit of the PPSA is its ability to create security in the goods you sell. The PPSA now allows you to truly retain the title in your goods until they are […]
Welcome to January 2019, the anniversary of the 7-year PPSR registrations. Have you got your renewals sorted? If you need some further information to inspire you to get your registrations sorted or just want to scope out the statistics, AFSA has released the quarterly December 2018 PPSR stats. Highlights of the report As of December […]
Well, that’s it! Here we are at the end of another year. 2018 has been an amazing year, full of growth and new members of our team. We’ve worked hard to bring you new features and products. From Bankruptcy Plus to PPSR Logic, it’s been a year of listening to our customers’ feedback and fulfilling […]
The holiday season can be a stressful time for small business owners. While many Aussies around the country are happily switching on their ‘out of office’ and heading straight to the beach, this time of year is a little different for those who run their own business. According to new research commissioned by Prospa, almost […]
The Personal Property Securities Register recently announced that they have hit 10 million registrations! Along with that news, the seven-year anniversary of PPSR is fast approaching in January, which means that there is going to be an influx in expirations and renewals. To give you a further idea of just how big the PPSR and […]
After 12 years working in lending, I’ve had many experiences of a customer needing to urgently increase their overdraft. The cause was nearly always a purchase that left the company unable to make payroll. In serious cases, we had to restructure their loans because they lost control of their stock, leading to penalty interest and higher […]
What is an Unfair Preference? Essentially, an unfair preference is when a creditor, within the six months before a company goes into administration or liquidation, receives payment(s) from that company that is more than they would receive if the payment(s) hadn’t occurred and they proved for their full debt in the liquidation. The “unfair preference” […]