Paid on time.
The buyers who pay late rarely start late. They slip, a few days at a time, while the orders keep coming. We put the signs on one page, early, so the right conversation happens in the first week.
You know this buyer.
Days paid late, month by month, for one good buyer. Every bar was in your systems. Nobody saw them side by side.
A good buyer. Pays on time, orders every week. Everyone likes them.
Payments start to slip. Four days, then seven. Nobody notices: the invoices are in one system, the orders in another.
They place their biggest order yet. Sales is happy. The truck leaves.
The invoice is forty days late. Now everyone notices. Now it is a phone call nobody wants to make.
- 0Jan
- 0Feb
- 0Mar
- 1Apr
- 2May
- makebetter flags it here4Jun
- 7Jul
- 9Aug
- 12Sep
- 19Oct
- 40Nov
- Dec
The signs were there. They were just in different places.
€890,000
sitting with your buyers, earned and not yet yours.
That is a business selling €1.5 million a month, paid 18 days late on average. Your numbers will be different, so work out your own below.
- One unpaid truck can cost more than the margin on twenty that are paid.
- The awkward call, made too late. By the time someone chases, the buyer has had weeks to wonder whether you will.
Your numbers, not ours.
Move the three sliders to match your business. The result is a rough guide, not a promise: in the first weeks we look at your real invoices and who pays them when.
We assume makebetter cuts the late days by about 40% and the unpaid share by half. Money costs 8% a year.
Cash back in your bank
€355,068
paid to you sooner, once, and it stays
Worth a year
€73,405
in interest saved, and in invoices that do get paid
Currency
The right conversation, in the first week.
Sales keeps the relationship and finance keeps the decision. They just see the same picture, early.
- Every buyer on one pageBeforeInvoices in finance, orders in sales.AfterOrders, open invoices and how each buyer has paid lately, side by side.
- Warning signs, earlyBeforeNoticed at forty days late.AfterA buyer who pays a little later each month is flagged in the first month.
- Credit checked before the truckBeforeChecked after it has left.AfterEvery new order checked against cover and open invoices before anyone confirms it.
- Polite reminders, on timeBeforeA tense phone call, weeks late.AfterA friendly reminder in the buyer’s language, the day an invoice falls due.
- Cash in the bankBeforeEarned, but out with buyers.AfterPaid sooner, and fewer invoices that are never paid.
You decide who gets credit.
You set every credit limit, and every exception.
Sales still owns the relationship.
Reminders go out only the way you set them.
Nothing is sent in your name until you say so.
On our own desk, a late payment is a conversation in the first week, not a problem in the second month.
One list of open invoices is enough.
No project plan, no new system to learn. Your accounts, your credit insurer and your ERP stay where they are.
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Send us your open invoices
An export from your accounts and a list of your buyers. Thirty minutes on a call.
- 02
We show you the patterns
Who pays late, who is slipping, and how much cash is waiting. In days, not months.
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It goes live
In weeks, beside the systems you use. Then we show you how much came in sooner.
Send us your open invoices.
Thirty minutes on a call. We will show you which buyers are slipping, and how much cash is waiting with them.