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title: Payment Practices Barometer Australia
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# 2025 Payment Practice Barometer Australia

How companies manage B2B payment risks

and impact on cashflow.

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Many businesses across various industries relaxed their B2B trade credit policies, offering more credit and payment flexibility to customers in order to remain competitive and sustain revenue.

## **Top Challenges When Offering B2B Credit**

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39% Maintaining customer relationships

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37% Preventing credit fraud

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34% Balancing customer terms & financial stability

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33% Assessing customer creditworthiness

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Despite an increasingly unpredictable trading environment, many businesses across various industries have actually relaxed their credit policies, offering more credit and greater payment flexibility to try and remain competitive. In doing so, this has often led to a significant cash flow imbalance, resulting in an increased reliance on external sources of funding which although providing short-term relief, often dials up the financial strain on a business.

The end result? A decrease in on-time payment of invoices, an increase in overdue invoices, and ultimately an increase in bad debt write-offs.

[Download the report](https://insights.atradius.com.au/payment-practices-barometer-australia-2025#banner)

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