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You did the work. Chasing the money for it should not be a second job you never get paid for.
Steady, polite follow-up on every open invoice for Chesterfield businesses, so you get paid for work already done.
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Kolping Park and Chapel, Chesterfield Township, Michigan
Chesterfield
It is the last day of the quarter in Chesterfield, and you finally run the aging report. The list of open invoices is longer than you thought, a few customers you liked have gone quiet, and one keeps telling you the check is on the way.
With AR follow-up in place, every invoice gets a reminder before it is due and a polite, steady sequence after. Someone works the list each week by email, text and phone, logs every promise to pay and sends you only the accounts that need your call.
Money comes in closer to when you earned it. The aging report shrinks, you stop dodging certain customers at the grocery store, and the accounts that truly need a licensed collection agency or an attorney get handed off early with every note attached.
Tap the ones that sound like your week.
5 businesses operate in Chesterfield. Clean numbers and steady systems are what let one of them pull ahead.
Businesses here (dark bars) and across the six counties (light bars).
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We review every open invoice and sort them by age and size.
We agree on reminder timing, tone and when you want to be pulled in.
Each week we follow up, log responses and post payments.
Accounts that will not pay go to a licensed partner with full notes, only with your OK.
What we report every month: Open receivables by age, Days to collect, Payments recovered from past due accounts, and Accounts escalated.
Accounts receivable follow-up is the steady work of reminding, asking and recording until each invoice is paid. It starts before the due date, keeps going on a set schedule and stays friendly, because most late payers are busy, not bad. It is not debt collection, and accounts that reach that point go to licensed partners.
Be clear, early and consistent. A reminder before the due date, a friendly note right after and a phone call once it is clearly late recover most invoices without hard feelings. Making it easy to pay with a link or a payment plan fixes more late invoices than tough language ever will.
Practices and firms that bill insurers, and contractors who bill warranty companies or property managers, carry receivables that follow someone else's schedule. Denials, missing information and resubmissions need someone tracking each claim until it is paid or closed. We work the status and paperwork side alongside your billing setup.
Cost depends on how many open invoices you carry, how old they are and how much phone work they need. Ongoing weekly follow-up is a fixed monthly fee, and a one-time cleanup of an old aging report is quoted as a project. We quote after looking at your aging report.
Clear terms on the estimate, contract or intake form prevent most AR problems before they start. Spell out deposits, due dates and late fees where they are allowed, and keep a card on file where it fits your industry. The fewer surprises on the invoice, the fewer reminders you need.
You know the customers best, but it lands at the bottom of the list every single week.
Sometimes needed for the worst accounts, and far too heavy for invoices that just need a reminder.
Friendly, steady follow-up on every invoice each week, with licensed partners only for the accounts that need them.
Who you are dealing with
Before Rebuild Detroit, Tevin Jackson helped scale more than 100 home service brands with marketing, sales and operations. Business Services is that playbook, run for Chesterfield businesses with the local numbers on this page, by the team behind the Rebuild Detroit directory.
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