Virtual Account

Virtual Account

The smarter solution to manage your receivables.

Benefits

Simplify your receivables management

Simplify your receivables management

Streamline receivables through customisable payer identification.

Enhance working capital

Enhance working capital

Improve cash flows by reducing Days Sales Outstanding.

Faster process, minimal effort

Faster process, minimal effort

Greater operational efficiencies with the automation of reconciliation processes.

Improve relationship with your clients

Improve relationship with your clients

Better sales cycles with the timely release of customer credit lines.

How it works

Step 1
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With UOB Virtual Account Services, unique virtual account numbers (VANs) are assigned to each of your customers or payers, allowing them to make payments directly to their designated VANs. A range of VANs will be assigned by the bank for your application. Alternatively, you can decide the range of VANs to be assigned to your customers, which are then set up by the bank (e.g., using customer number as part of the virtual account number).

Your customers can then indicate their assigned VAN as the crediting account number when making payments either through manual or electronic payment channels.

Upon receiving these payments, the bank will credit the funds directly to your UOB bank account linked to the VAN. The respective VANs corresponding to each of your customers will also be shown in your bank statement, enabling you to identify the payers with greater ease during your AR reconciliation.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I use the Virtual Account?
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  • Assign unique virtual account numbers to each of your customers (you can customise the numbers or use the ones issued by UOB).
  • Customers can then use their assigned virtual account numbers as the crediting account number when making payments.
  • UOB will credit the payments received to the specific UOB account linked to the virtual account numbers.
  • The respective virtual account numbers corresponding to your customers will be reflected in the bank statement, enabling you to identify the receivables easily.

1. Streamline receivables and reconcile with greater accuracy
Company M owns various F&B outlets. To facilitate their reconciliation at individual branch outlet level, the company opened separate current accounts for each F&B outlet, resulting in the need to manage 22 separate accounts. With UOB Virtual Account, Company M only needs to open a single account, and assign a different virtual account number to each outlet. Leveraging the unique virtual account number assigned to each outlet, all collections credited to that single account can then be easily reconciled back to the respective individual outlets.

 

2. Identify payers more easily for easy reconciliation
Company N has started to push for the digitalisation of their collections. However, as most customers do not indicate a specific transaction reference when making payments, reconciliation has become a challenging task, which resulted in the manual matching of payments received to the corresponding payer. UOB Virtual Account provides Company N with the flexibility of defining account numbers unique to each of their customers, such as using its customer ID as part of the virtual account number. This allows Company N to enjoy greater ease and process efficiencies when reconciling their collections.

Additional information

Terms & Conditions
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Terms and Conditions for UOB Virtual Account.

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