Blacklists

Hello Gordon
Thank you for your question. As much as everyone would like to see a name and shame blacklist of poor payers, it could be a bit of a litigation nightmare. It is something that has been discussed though by many organisations. The Forum of Private Business has a name and shame but that is mainly large businesses. Payontime used to host the PLC league tables which was compiled by Professor Nick Wilson at the Credit Management Research Center and that is something we are hoping to re-introduce.

For our supporters we are looking into an option to add a star rating (1 to 5) and the ability for suppliers can to add comments.

As you can imagine, that could lead to a lot of hassle if a business gets a negative review from a competitor etc. Lots of work to look into complaints about bad reviews.

So it is on the list of things to do but we have to think about how to make it fair and honest for all to benefit.

David