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AI collections agent for staffing agencies

Stop funding payroll for your clients.

You pay your workers every week. Clients pay in 45 days, after the timesheets are approved and the PO is found. The AR Agent chases every overdue client invoice and clears what is holding it up, so your account managers don’t have to.

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Overdue invoices5
  • Granite Logistics

    INV-5521 · 34 days overdue

    $12,480

    overdue

    TimesheetClient says timesheets weren’t approved

    Agent asked your office for them

  • Summit Health Partners

    INV-5498 · 27 days overdue

    $8,920

    overdue

    PromisePayment promised on the 30th

    Next action: Check payment the 31st

  • Riverside Manufacturing

    INV-5476 · 45 days overdue

    $6,210

    overdue

    Needs youDisputes 12 hours for one worker

    Agent has asked you to confirm

Agent is working · last action 2 min ago

Watch it work

From approved hours to paid invoice.

You keep placing people. The AR Agent follows up the client invoices that haven’t been paid.

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14 hours a week

spent chasing overdue payments, on average at SMBs

Wakefield Research for QuickBooks

How much is chasing clients costing you?

Answer a few quick questions about your client invoices and see how much time and money The AR Agent could save your agency.

Calculate my savings
Illustrative example

8 hours a week chasing, at $40 an hour

Costs now
$1,387/mo
Time freed at 50%
17.3 hours/mo

An example, not a promise. Your report uses your own answers.

Real staffing problems

What we hear from agency owners.

The shifts were worked and the workers were paid. The client invoice is still open.

  • A business owner in glasses, smiling

    Agency Owner

    Payroll goes out every Friday. Clients pay when they feel like it.

    “We pay our workers weekly and wait 45 days to be paid ourselves. Every late invoice comes out of our cash.”

  • An operations manager in a white shirt, smiling

    Branch / Account Manager

    I don’t want to be the one chasing my client.

    “I’ve spent months building the relationship. Asking them for money is the last conversation I want to have.”

  • An office administrator with glasses working through paperwork at a laptop

    Payroll / Finance

    The invoice is stuck until someone approves a timesheet.

    “The hours were worked, the workers are paid, and the invoice sits there because a site manager hasn’t clicked approve.”

What clients write back

The reply is where the money gets stuck.

A reminder gets an answer, and the answer needs doing something about. This is what the agent does with the ones staffing clients send most.

  • Accounts payable, Granite Logistics

    “We can’t pay until the timesheets are approved.”

    What the agent does

    1. Asks your office for the signed timesheets
    2. Sends them to the approver, copying AP
    3. Follows up until it’s approved and paid
  • Hiring manager, Oakmont Events

    “This placement needs a new PO number.”

    What the agent does

    1. Asks the hiring manager for the PO
    2. Adds it to the invoice in your books
    3. Re-sends the invoice to accounts payable
  • Site supervisor, Riverside Manufacturing

    “We only had him for 28 hours that week, not 40.”

    What the agent does

    1. Stops chasing that invoice
    2. Asks you to check the timesheet
    3. Writes the reply you choose, for you to approve
  • Finance, Summit Health Partners

    “We pay suppliers on the 30th.”

    What the agent does

    1. Records the promise and the date
    2. Checks the books on the 31st
    3. If it hasn’t landed, follows up the next day, in the same thread

Invented companies. Every email the agent writes waits for your approval unless you switch on Autopilot.

How it works

Get set up in minutes.

  1. 1

    Connect your systems

    Connect QuickBooks Online or Xero, and your business email. The AR Agent reads your client invoices and sees which are overdue.

  2. Granite LogisticsINV-5521
    1. Invoice 34 days unpaidMon
    2. Follow-up sentMon
    3. Reply: “Paying on the 30th”Tue
    4. Promise tracked, check on the 1stTue
    2

    The agent gets to work

    It follows up overdue invoices, reads the replies, tracks payment promises and sorts out approvals and POs.

  3. Needs youINV-5476

    Riverside Manufacturing says one worker did 28 hours that week, not 40. How should I respond?

    Chasing paused until you decide

    Check the timesheetKeep chasing
    3

    You step in when needed

    Disputed hours and anything that needs a decision come to you. Your account managers stay out of the money conversation.

Want us to chase your client invoices?

The AR Agent does the chasing and brings you in only when a decision is needed. Tell us about your invoices and we will show you how it would work for you.

FAQ

A few things you might want to know.

Will this work with QuickBooks?

Yes. The AR Agent connects to QuickBooks Online or Xero, and to your business email, and works the overdue invoices it finds there.

Will it upset our clients?

It writes like a polite person in your accounts team, in your own email thread, and every message waits for your approval unless you switch on Autopilot. Disputes come to you, not to the client.

Do I have to let it email customers automatically?

No. Every email waits for your approval until you choose to switch on Autopilot, customer by customer.

Can it keep our account managers out of it?

Yes. It emails the client’s accounts payable and approvers directly, and only brings in your team when a decision is needed.

Let us chase your overdue invoices

Connect QuickBooks or Xero and your finance inbox. We’ll help you set it up. No card or contract.

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