Fees lived in one spreadsheet, invoices in another, and the truth in the office manager's head. Raising a month's invoices took days; chasing late payers happened when someone remembered; nobody could say what was actually owed at any given moment.
The brief: one system shaped around how the firm already works — not an off-the-shelf package it would have to bend around — connected to the accounts software they weren't willing to leave.
Every job, fee and stage in one place — a month's invoices raised in an afternoon, not a week.
Polite reminders on a schedule, escalation when overdue — the system never forgets, and never sounds rude.
Two-way sync with the firm's existing accounts package — no migration, no double entry.
Invoiced, collected and overdue — live, by client and by month, for the partners' Monday meeting.
We stopped chasing invoices — the system does it politely, every time. Month-end went from dreaded to done.
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