Equifax Commercial Credit Services

Microsoft and Equifax are collaborating to offer Office Accounting users, easy-to-use integrated commercial credit reporting services. Equifax Commercial Credit Services empowers you to easily monitor the credit worthiness of your portfolio of customers, vendors, as well as your own business, directly from within Microsoft Office Accounting.
Benefits
  • Know how others view your business: Purchase comprehensive business credit report on your own business.
  • Improved Insight: Monitor the credit worthiness of your customers and vendors and receive e-mail alerts.
  • Minimized risk of late or non-payments: View which customers or vendors pose a high financial risk.
  • Easy Set up and Use: Fully integrated with Office Accounting, making the service easy to set up and use.

 

   How to Get Started:

  • Launch Office Accounting.
  • Go to the Credit Profile menu on the top navigation bar.
  • Click “Sign Up for Credit Profile”
  • Follow the instructions on the web page that follows


To see which service is right for you select from one of the following options:
  • Pay per use - is designed for users who have an occasional need for a credit report.
  • Subscription - is designed for businesses that want to cost effectively Monitor monitor the business credit of their customers and vendors on an ongoing basis.

Pay per Use:

Equifax Commercial Credit Services Single entry Credit Summary and Monitoring Equifax Business Credit Report with Score
Monitor the business credit of your customers and vendors 30 days
View business credit reporting data directly with Office Accounting PDF format only
Number of business records monitored 1 Your business only
PDF business credit report on your business 1
Pricing( from $4.95 per report) From $4.95 and up $39.95

Subscription:

Equifax Commercial Credit Services Trial Basic Standard Professional
Monitor the business credit of profile of your business
Monitor the business credit of your customers and vendors
View business credit reporting data directly within Office Accounting
Number of Business records monitored Monitor up to 3 Monitor up to 30 Monitor up to 100 Monitor up to 300
PDF business credit report on your own business None 1 1 1 per month
Business Credit Alerts 30 days only Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing
Pricing (per month) Free $29.95 $49.95 $99.95


Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What are the types of data in an Equifax Commercial Credit Report?

Based upon the availability of data, the report will contain a small business's financial obligations, including bank loans, leases, credit cards and trade credit history as well as public records and firmographics data.

Q. Where does the information in an Equifax Commercial Credit Services report come from?

Financial obligation information is reported by the financial institutions that provide credit to the small business. Non financial information, such as trade credit, is reported by the companies providing goods and services to the small business.

Q. What does it cost to search the database?

A variety of plans are available to suit your needs. Please refer to the Equifax services sign up page within the Microsoft Office Accounting application.

Q. How do I save my business reports?


Your Equifax Commercial Credit Report is delivered via an Adobe PDF document. In order to save the document, you must click the "save" icon with the Adobe PDF document or select "save" from the menu options. Then, save it to your local computer.

Q. I need a hard copy of my report. What do I do?

Click the "print" icon or select "print" from the menu options to print a hard copy of the report.

Q. Can I check my own company's Equifax Commercial Credit Report?

Yes. Within Microsoft Accounting, select the "Equifax" menu option. Select "Get Your Company's Credit Report" to download a copy of your Equifax Commercial Credit Report.

Q. What is my company's credit score?

Your Equifax Commercial Credit Report will contain a numeric credit score between 101 - 816. The lower the score, the higher the risk for delinquency. In addition, the score will contain the top factors that impacted the score.

Q. I believe that my Equifax Commercial Credit Report may have incorrect data on it. What should I do?

If you believe that information on your Equifax Commercial Credit Report is inaccurate, Equifax will investigate the data with the data provider. Refer to the frequently asked questions at the end of your commercial credit report for further information and instructions.

Q. How can I find out about other Equifax Commercial Credit Services

In your Office Accounting program click Credit Profile on the top menu bar & Select Sign Up for Credit Profile. Follow on-screen instructions.

Q. Who do I contact for technical support?

You may contact our technical support group at 1-866-827-1619.