Five checks that show whether a courier is short-paying you
Short payment is usually drift rather than theft. Five checks, in the order that finds the most money for the least effort, each one provable from your own records.
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Subscribe to the feedShort payment is usually drift rather than theft. Five checks, in the order that finds the most money for the least effort, each one provable from your own records.
Every line is a delivered parcel, a charge, a payout or an adjustment. Here is where each figure comes from, what is deliberately absent, and the two places sellers most often misread it.
Most COD returns are decided at checkout and at packing, not at the door. Five real reasons, what each one costs, and the order to fix them in.
COD converts better with first-time buyers. Prepaid settles faster, ties up less capital and comes back far less often. Six criteria, an honest score on each, and where the line between them usually falls.
Your balance is credited the moment a parcel is delivered, in the same transaction that posts the ledger. The payout is a separate step against a funded account with evidence attached.
Between the notes a customer hands over and the transfer that reaches your bank there are seven handovers. Here is each one, the control that sits on it, and the three questions worth asking any courier.