A generic payment settlement cycle can be time taking but having a payment partner that can help you settle your customer payments quickly is a boon. Priority Settlements from PayU offers a comprehensive solution, transparency & flexibility for your business. It enables you to run your business 24×7 and keeps you from facing a cash crunch. Let’s understand what makes it better than normal settlements.

How is PayU Priority Settlement Different Than Normal Settlements?

Maintaining a healthy cash flow is very important in running any business. Often you can feel bogged down by delayed settlements on bank holidays and weekends. These features of priority settlements will help you maintain a healthy cash flow: 

Amazing right? Having a product that enables you to save time and ensures you don’t get into a cash crunch is always a good choice. Click here to know more benefits of using PayU Priority Settlements. 

Frequently Asked Questions

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Let’s understand the importance of maintaining healthy cash flow first!

Importance of Cash Flow

Cash flow is the amount of money your business has at any given period of time. Maintaining a healthy cash flow: 

• Enables you to meet your financial commitments 
• Helps you plan for the future 
• Ensures smooth day-to-day business operations 
• Supports through ups and downs in sales, and unexpected expenses 
• Powers growth in your business 

Now that we understand the importance of cash flow, let’s find out ways to have a healthy cash flow.  

How to Maintain a Healthy Cash Flow?

There are several ways of maintaining a healthy cash flow & here are three of them:

Receive Your Payments Early

Reducing account receivable time is one of the ways of maintaining cash flow in your business. Here’s how you can reduce the time in which you receive payments in your account: 

• Shorten payment terms 
• Build a strong relationship with your customer 
• Reconcile payments frequently 
• Provide early payment discounts 
• Settle payments faster using Priority Settlements for PayU Payment Gateway 

Increase the Time to Make Vendor Payments

Here’s how you can increase the time in which you can make vendor payments without letting it affect your cashflow:

• Evaluate the relationship with your vendors
• Build a cash reserve
• Set up payment reminders
• Budget aptly
• Look for discounts
• Streamline your workflow

Reduce Unnecessary Spending

Here’s how you can reduce your unnecessary spending and maintain a cash flow that will go a long way:

• Track your expenses
• Manage your variable costs
• Identify processes that don’t add value
• Use expense management tools

Now that you know different ways of keeping a healthy cash flow, find the one that suits you the best. Click here to know more about how to get your Payment Gateway settlements faster.

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What is Settlement?

Settlement is a simple process by which any business can collect payments via a payment gateway. The settlement process is completed when the payment made by a customer reaches your bank account.

Payment Gateway Settlement Cycle

Here’s how the money movement happens.
There are three main stakeholders in a payment gateway settlement cycle:

1. Issuing bank is the customer’s bank
2. Payment gateway
3. Acquiring bank is your bank

Once a customer pays you, the money is deducted from their account instantly. Money moves from your customer’s bank to your bank via the payment gateway. This money movement takes T + 2 days. After deducting payment gateway charges, the remaining amount is then transferred to your account after T+3 days. This is what a generic payment gateway settlement cycle looks like:

In the case of card payments, the card networks connect the issuing bank & acquiring bank to enable online payment. The entire payment gateway settlement cycle remains the same.  

This table will help you understand how much time each payment mode needs to settle: 

As you can see, the money movement is not immediate and depends on bank processes. So now you know why you don’t receive your online collections instantly. 

Can We Fast-Track These Settlements?

Yes, there’s a way fast-track these settlements!

With PayU Priority Settlements, you can get your customer payments any time of the day in just 15 minutes. It works 24×7, supports all payment modes, and lets you choose your settlement cycle.

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