What it does
Most small businesses are not short on work. They are short on the money they have already earned. The invoice went out, the job is done, and now someone has to remember to ask. That someone is usually the owner, and it is usually the thing that slips.
The Invoice Chaser watches your receivables every morning. It knows which invoices are approaching due, which are past due, and which have been promised and not paid. It sends reminders in your voice, on a schedule you set, and it stops the moment a payment lands. When an invoice stalls past your threshold, it does not keep nagging. It hands the account to you with the full history in one place so the phone call takes two minutes instead of twenty.
Every Monday you get one brief: who owes what, what has moved, what needs you.
A real sample of its output
This is the Monday brief, exactly as it arrives. Names are illustrative.
MONDAY RECEIVABLES BRIEF — week of Sep 7
Outstanding: $42,180 across 11 invoices (last week: $51,920 / 14)
PAID SINCE LAST BRIEF
#1187 Harborview Property Mgmt $6,400 paid Thu, 3 days after reminder 2
#1191 Calder Dental Group $2,340 paid Fri, no reminder needed
#1176 M. Alvarez (residential) $1,000 paid Mon, after reminder 3
REMINDERS SENT THIS WEEK (4)
#1194 Northfork Storage $8,750 due in 3 days → friendly heads-up
#1182 Brightline Fitness $3,100 7 days late → reminder 1
#1179 Sound Ave Auto $4,900 14 days late → reminder 2 (copied their AP)
#1168 Bayview Construction $9,200 30 days late → reminder 3, final before escalation
NEEDS YOU (1)
#1163 Greenport Marina $6,480 44 days late
History: 3 reminders, 1 reply ("processing next cycle") on Aug 28, nothing since.
Suggested: call Dana at the marina office. Everything is in the thread link.
SKIPPED BY YOUR RULES (2)
#1190 Ridgeway Farms — 60-day terms, not due
#1188 St. Agnes Parish — never chase; on your do-not-remind list
What it will not do
It will not threaten anyone. It will not send a reminder to a customer you have flagged. It will not touch your accounting data; it reads, it never writes. And it will not pretend a customer paid when they have not.
What it needs from you
Read access to wherever your invoices live, three sentences on your tone, and your escalation rule. The Map session covers all three. Then it runs, and you get your Fridays back.