The world of debt collection and credit management is full of technical terms, acronyms and sometimes complex concepts.
To help CFOs, credit managers, SME managers and finance teams, Aston AI has created this comprehensive glossary of essential definitions relating to receivables, collections and e-invoicing 2026.
This glossary is a practical tool for :
Quickly understand the key concepts of collections and credit management.
Familiarize yourself with performance indicators (DSO, aged trial balance, overdue receivables).
Master the regulatory concepts associated with electronic invoicing (PDP, PPF, Factur-X, e-invoicing, e-reporting).
Discover best practices for reducing overdue payments and securing cash flow.
A glossary designed for professionals
Each term is defined in a clear and concise way, using language suitable for practitioners and decision-makers alike.
Whether you’re a CFO looking to optimize working capital, a credit manager looking for operational methods, or an executive looking to secure your financial flows, this glossary provides a common basis for understanding.
In addition, this glossary also covers concepts related to the digitalization of debt collection:
Intelligent tracking of disputes.
Artificial intelligence applied to credit management.
How to use this glossary
Navigation is simple: browse the alphabetical list to go directly to the term you’re looking for.
Each definition is written to be actionable and placed in its business context, with links to our other resources (fact sheets, tutorials, videos & webinars).
You can also use this glossary as an internal training tool for your finance and collections teams.
Lexicon
- Accounting equity
- Actual outstandings
- Aged scale
- AR24
- Assignment of receivables
- Automatic climbing
- Automatic scoring
- Behavioral scoring
- Claim
- Collaborative follow-up
- Contractual payment terms
- Credit insurance
- Credit limit
- Customer accounting
- Customer claim
- Customer credit
- Customer DSO
- Customer equity
- Customer outstandings
- Customer receipt
- Customer reminder
- Customer risk
- Customer scoring (Z-Score, behavioral, financial, etc.)
- Customer station
- Customized scenario
- Debtor cat
- Deconsolidated factoring
- Dispute
- Dispute management
- Doubtful customer
- DSO (Days Sales Outstanding)
- Dynamic balance
- ERE (Electronic Registered Email)
- Factor
- Factoring
- Financial scoring
- Flat-rate allowance
- Formal notice
- Interactive customer portal
- Interest on arrears
- Invoice correction
- Lettering
- Litigation
- Litigation block
- Low customer score
- Multi-channel relaunch
- Outstanding amounts
- Outstanding loans
- Payment link
- Processing workflow
- Provision for doubtful debts
- Recovery timeline
- Registered mail
- Retention of title clause
- Scoring Aston AI
- Suspension of dunning
- Target DSO
- Timetable
- Unpaid bill
- Validation workflow
- Z-Score
Aston AI special collection software glossary
The Aston AI lexicon is more than just a theoretical glossary: it’s an educational and strategic tool designed to support the digital transformation of finance departments.
It will help you inform your decisions, raise your teams’ awareness and better prepare for today’s major challenges:
Dispute management
E-invoicing compliance 2026
Digitalization and artificial intelligence
Take a look at our glossary to learn more about the concepts that are driving developments in collections and credit management.
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