Adding accounts receivable follow-up to your bookkeeping service
Scope a useful receivables service with clear responsibilities, a repeatable review routine, and measurable work. Includes an example client-service outline.
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Build an accounts receivable follow-up service for bookkeeping clients, with clear responsibilities, a repeatable review routine, and useful client reporting.
A PRACTICAL STARTING POINT
Define the service before expanding the portfolio.
Find capacity for your client portfolioReceivables follow-up adds an ongoing conversation to the work of keeping the books. Before offering it to more clients, agree on what your practice will review, which messages your team can approve, and when the client needs to make a decision. A clear scope helps both sides understand the work and the information needed to keep it moving.
- Set responsibilities with the client. Agree who handles invoice corrections, disputes, payment arrangements, and questions your team cannot answer.
- Choose a repeatable review schedule and a shared place to record actions. Test the routine with a small set of clients before increasing capacity.
- Report activity and outcomes separately. Show follow-up completed, open questions, and balances recorded in the books without treating every balance reduction as cash collected.