Invoice Avenue Features Overview
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1. Adding and Sending invoices
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2. What Your Customer Sees
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3. What You See
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4. Other Features and Benefits
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5. Dramatic Results
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Adding and Sending Invoices
- Helps solve the issue of sending out invoices that get ignored and you don't realize it until they are past due.
- Make follow-up phone calls at 3-5 days after invoices are sent rather than 30-45 days.
- Reduce Invoice aging by 30-60 days in some cases
- Catch communication problems before they become cash-flow problems.
- Prevent the situation where you have to have uncomfortable conversations with your clients about getting paid.
- Keep your AR small, your bank account full and your staff focused on running your company, not running after over-due payments.
What your customer sees
- Your customer gets a simple email with a unique, secure link to his or her invoice.
- In this example, when Reyna clicks on the link, she is directed to a user-friendly webpage that shows
- a summary of the invoice
- links to view or download the invoice
- a button to confirm receipt of the invoice and a link to email questions back to the AR department.
- All contacts at your customer can see who else has viewed or confirmed your invoice. Since Reyna's boss, Pablo, has already confirmed this invoice she knows she can pay this bill without having to talk Pablo directly.
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What You See
- Use the Invoice List to see the status of your invoices.
- Use the filters and columns to focus your attention on Unpaid or Overdue invoices first.
Other Features and Benefits
- Managing your collections
- Centralize your invoice follow-up notes using both the automated statuses and the electronic notes features.
- Marking invoices as paid with a single click. (Paid invoices are still available by changing your filter on the invoice list.)
- Reports coming soon:
- Aging Summary
- Aging Details (includes notes)
- Client Payment History
Dramatic Results
Metric Media started using Invoice Avenue in June of 2009 to address a growing accounts receivable problem. In 6 months their average collection days dropped from a high of 115 days to 32 days on their Net 30 invoices.