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A simple guide to help you get started with your new business.

We surveyed 4,990 businesses across 9 markets to determine which payment methods businesses prefer for different use cases.

Planning on making an international payment in Europe? You might need an IBAN.

How to take ACH payments from customers in the US.

A breakdown of everything you need to know when calculating ARR...

GoCardless now supports ACH payments in the US

How GoCardless helps your business save money.

Complete with foreign exchange, powered by Wise for Business.

A guide on making payments in the UK: everything you need to know about Direct Debit, Bacs Direct Credit, CHAPS and Faster Payments.

Invoice discounting is a way to get money flowing into your business faster – here's how it works.

Invoice factoring can boost cash flow and simplify business planning – could it work for you?

There are a number of variants to this accounting process, useful for ensuring correct balances are recorded within accounts. This guide explains what they are, why reconciliation is important, and how to conduct reconciliation.

Cloud-based solutions abound in the digital age, with many of us using online software to manage our emails, our banking or our photo storage. So why not move your business’ accounting and bookkeeping needs to the cloud too?

12,785 consumers across 10 different markets share their payment preferences in 2019.

Getting paid on time is an ongoing challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this guide, we walk you through three automated payment options, and explain the key advantages (and disadvantages) of each as a cash collection method.

Are you using Direct Debit as a fast, efficient, low-cost method to collect regular fees, subscriptions or one-off payments from your customers? Or considering adding Direct Debit to your payments mix?

68% of people abandon a checkout at payment. Here's how to boost conversion.

Every month, SaaS businesses are losing 1-4% of their customers through involuntary churn.

We've collected together advice on churn from some of the world’s most successful and outspoken investors and SaaS C-suite executives.

Churn definitions and benchmarks from the likes of ChartMogul, Profitwell and Recurly, as well as action steps to help you tackle voluntary and involuntary churn.

Learn all about collecting payments from Australia in this handy guide

A guide to standing order payments, including how they work, pros, cons and alternatives.

Practical tips from window cleaner business owners on how to encourage your customers to pay by Direct Debit.

Great businesses know that how customers pay is as important as when they pay.