Payments

Many businesses choose to automate payment collection through Direct Debit: but what exactly is the benefit?

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?

3 surprisingly straightforward ways everyone can gain access Direct Debit.

Direct Debit isn't just for regular, fixed-amount payments.

Your at-a-glance view of all the available 2019 Bacs processing dates.

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How can Direct Debit impact the numbers you care about most? Find out as we explain the relationship between Direct Debit and three key subscription success metrics.

The in-depth guide for optimising your subscription payment page.

Poor cash flow is responsible for almost half of small business insolvencies in Australia. In this guide, we ask small business leaders to tell us how they took control of cash flow, and what lessons they learned along the way.

They may seem similar, but here are the key differences.

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The small business perspective on Direct Debit – how Direct Debit can help your business, the advantages and disadvantages and how to get started.

Processing, chasing and reconciling payments doesn't have be time consuming. In this guide, we compare three automated payment methods, and identify the pros and cons of each, to help you choose the right one for your business.

Sending out invoices, collecting payments and reconciling cash are time consuming tasks – costing SMBs 120 hours a year. In this guide, we’ve highlighted 5 hacks to help your cash collection process run more efficiently.

The average small business is owed over 63k in outstanding payments, which means spending extra time, money and resource chasing payments. In this guide, we look at 5 ways Direct Debit can help solve these problems.

A guide to the key payment options for Australian businesses who take recurring payments – and the pros and cons of each.


Direct Debit payments are automated, but they're not always integrated. Here's the difference – and why it matters.