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Notes on getting paid.

Playbooks and honest perspective on collections, cash flow, and running accounts receivable as a growing B2B business.

AR numbersOct 2, 2026

Net 30, net 60, net 90: what payment terms actually mean for your cash flow

The terms on your invoice are a loan you are making to your client. Here is how to read them, what they cost you, and how to set terms you can actually enforce.

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Getting paidSep 29, 2026

What to do when a client disputes an invoice

A dispute is not a refusal. It is the invoice finally getting attention. Here is how to handle the five common kinds without losing the money or the client.

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Getting paidSep 29, 2026

Collections agency vs. doing it yourself: the real math on an overdue invoice

An agency keeps a quarter to half of what it recovers and ends the client relationship. Doing it yourself costs time you do not have. There is a third option most businesses skip, and the numbers favor it.

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Getting paidSep 22, 2026

How to write a past-due invoice email that gets a reply

Most past-due emails get ignored because they are written to be ignorable. Six changes that make yours the one the client answers, with before-and-after examples.

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ToolsSep 18, 2026

Best tools for automating accounts receivable (2026)

An honest review of the AR automation tools B2B service businesses on QuickBooks actually consider, what each one is good at, what it costs, and who should pick which.

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AR numbersSep 18, 2026

AR aging report explained (and what each bucket is telling you)

The aging report is the most-opened and least-read report in QuickBooks. Here is how to read it in five minutes, what each column actually means, and the three patterns that should change what you do this week.

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Getting paidSep 18, 2026

How to follow up on an overdue invoice (with 5 email templates you can copy)

A timing plan that works, what to put in each email, and five templates that escalate from friendly to final without burning the relationship.

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DataSep 18, 2026

We looked at 4,024 invoice follow-ups. Here is when clients actually pay.

Aggregate data from every follow-up Reeve has sent for real businesses: how fast payment lands after the first nudge, which stage gets it paid, and what a reply is worth.

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AR numbersSep 17, 2026

What is DSO, and how do you calculate it in QuickBooks?

Days sales outstanding is the one AR number that tells you how your terms are really working. QuickBooks does not report it. Here is the formula, a worked example, and exactly which two reports to pull.

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ToolsSep 17, 2026

QuickBooks automatic invoice reminders: what they do, and where they stop

QuickBooks Online will send up to three reminder emails per invoice for free. That is genuinely useful. It is also exactly where most businesses discover what a reminder scheduler cannot do.

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Getting paidSep 16, 2026

Why staffing agencies run 60-day DSO (and what actually fixes it)

You pay contractors weekly and get paid by clients in 45 to 75 days. The gap is structural, but most of it is fixable, and the fix is not factoring.

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PerspectiveJun 25, 2026

AI is finally reaching the back office. Receivables is where it pays off first.

AI has moved from pilots to the accounting back office. Here's where it's actually landing in 2026, and why collections is the highest-ROI place to start.

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PlaybookJun 18, 2026

Doing your AR by hand vs. letting a tool do it: an honest comparison

Manual collections works fine, right up until it doesn't. Here's an honest look at both sides, and the revenue point where doing it yourself quietly starts costing you.

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