Collections

Get paid sooner without chasing invoices by hand

Arclite finds every overdue invoice, drafts the reminder, and tells you which ones actually matter this week. You read it, you click send.

The problem

Nobody's job is to ask for the money.

The invoice went out. It is past due. Asking again means opening the aging report, finding the contact, remembering what you said last time, and writing a note you do not enjoy writing. So it waits until the week you are short.

Arclite does the part you keep putting off.

Every overdue invoice gets a draft. The draft knows the amount, the age, whether you have asked before, and how that customer has paid you in the past. It is written in your voice, and it sits in a queue until you say go.

  • Every one, foundPulled from QuickBooks Online, so the list is the same list your books have.
  • Written for that customerA first ask at three days past due does not read like a fourth ask at sixty.
  • Waiting on youNothing reaches a customer until you click send, unless you set up a workflow that says otherwise.
What you get

A queue you can clear in ten minutes.

  • Finds every overdue invoiceArclite reads your receivables straight from QuickBooks Online. Nothing falls behind the desk.
  • Drafted in your voiceWritten the way you write, not the way a template writes. Edit any of it before it goes.
  • Knows the customerAmount, age, prior asks, and how that customer has actually paid you before.
  • Ranked by your forecastThe queue is ordered by which invoice moves your tightest week, not by which one is oldest.
  • You approve every sendA draft waits until you click send, unless you have built a workflow that says otherwise.
  • Escalation you controlYou set the sequence: how many follow-ups, how far apart, and where it stops.
How it works

Read, approve, send.

  1. 1. Arclite reads your receivables

    Open invoices, amounts, ages, contacts, and your payment history with each customer.

  2. 2. Drafts land in your queue

    One per overdue invoice, written in your voice, ordered by what each one does to your forecast.

  3. 3. You approve or edit

    Send it, rewrite it, push it a week, or skip the customer entirely. Drafting is free, sending costs a credit.

  4. 4. The forecast moves

    When the money lands, the week it lands in changes, and next week's queue is built from the new picture.

Drafting is free. Sending an email costs one credit, and your plan includes a hundred of them. See $50 a month, 100 credits.

Ranking

Old is not the same as urgent.

The reason to chase an invoice is not that it is old.

It is that it moves your low week. A $2,000 invoice landing in week five can matter more than a $40,000 invoice landing in week eleven, because week five is the one where payroll is tight. Arclite ranks the queue against your forecast, so the first three drafts you approve are the three that change the number.

  • Tied to the forecastEvery draft shows the week that invoice lands in and what it does to that week.
  • Escalation on your termsYou decide how many follow-ups, how far apart, and the point where it stops and you pick up the phone.
  • Some are not worth itIf chasing an invoice changes nothing you need changed, Arclite says so and you spend the ten minutes elsewhere.

Collections only works if you know which week is short, which is what the 13-week cash flow forecast is for. If you want to know what normal looks like before you start chasing, read how late your industry pays.

FAQ

Questions about collections.

It starts from your own writing. Arclite reads how you have worded invoices and follow-ups, and drafts in that voice rather than a stock template. Each draft also carries that customer's history: what they owe, how long this one has been sitting, whether you have already asked once, and how they have paid you in the past. A customer who is three days past on their first invoice does not get the same letter as one who is sixty days past for the fourth time. Every draft is editable before it goes anywhere.

No. A draft sits in your queue until you click send. That is the default and it stays the default. The one exception is a workflow you set up yourself, where you decide in advance which reminders go out without a second look. You build that rule, you can turn it off, and until you do, nothing reaches a customer without your approval.

Arclite already knows. That customer's payment history is in the forecast, so a net-30 invoice from a habitual net-50 payer is modeled at fifty days, not thirty. The reminder reflects it too. You are not chasing them to make them normal, you are chasing them because moving that one check from week seven to week five is what covers week five. If the invoice does not move a week that matters, Arclite says so and you can leave it alone.

The people who damage relationships are the ones who go quiet for two months and then send a lawyer. A short, correct, on-time note that references the right invoice number and the right amount reads as a business that keeps its books. You control the tone, the timing and the escalation sequence, you read every draft, and you can exclude any customer entirely. Nothing goes out in your name that you have not looked at.

Yes. One credit per email sent. Your $50 a month includes 100 credits, and drafting costs nothing, so you can review a full queue and send only the ones worth sending. If you go over, extra credits are 50 cents each on your next invoice. There are no top-up packs to buy.

Clear the aging report this week.

Connect QuickBooks Online and Arclite drafts a reminder for every overdue invoice. You decide which ones go out.

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