CONSTRUCTION ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, MANAGED.
Healthy AR aging for a subcontractor is around 45 days, with 90+ days signaling weak collection discipline and 30 days representing a strong position. SPM records and tracks AR aging with a defined follow-up cadence at 30, 60, and 90 days, and flags collection issues early, but doesn't execute collections or payments on the client's behalf.
AR aging left alone gets longer. An invoice that should collect in 30 days stretches to 45, then 60, because nobody owns the follow up on a set schedule. That stretch is rarely a payer problem, it's a process problem, and it compounds across every open invoice at once. SPM tracks AR aging against a defined benchmark and cadence, and records AR activity accurately in the books. Collection execution itself, the calls and the follow up with the GC, stays with you, because the person who holds the relationship gets paid faster than a third party ever will.
WHAT IT MEANS.
Accounts receivable management for a subcontractor is the work of recording AR accurately, tracking aging against a benchmark, and flagging follow up at defined thresholds before invoices drift.
Days Sales Outstanding, DSO, is the standard measure of AR health. It rolls the whole aging report into one number: on average, how many days it takes to collect an invoice after you bill it. The aging report gives you the detail behind that number, and the two get read together every month rather than one instead of the other.
WHAT IS TRUE INSTEAD.
"Our clients are just slow payers"
Some of them are, but most AR slowdown is a collection cadence problem rather than a payer problem. A defined follow up schedule at 30, 60, and 90 days catches the slowdown before it becomes the way your business operates. The GC who pays in 60 days when nobody calls will often pay in 40 when somebody does, and that difference is process, not relationship.
"We'll get to collections when we have time"
Without a defined cadence and clear trigger points, collection follow up competes with every other priority in the business and it loses every time. That's how invoices drift past 90 days. Follow up has to be scheduled work owned by a person, not something that happens when the week is calm, because the week is never calm.
"You keep our books, so you must chase collections too"
SPM records and tracks AR aging accurately and flags the follow up triggers, but collection execution, the outreach to the GC, stays with the client. That scope boundary is deliberate and it's the same on every SPM engagement. We will tell you who to call and when, and we won't make the call for you.
THE OUTPUTS, NAMED.
FLAT MONTHLY FEE. NO SURPRISES.
Three tiers, priced by your trailing twelve month revenue. Which one you're in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk. No hourly billing. No payroll. The one-time onboarding fee is right here in the table.
| Last 12 months revenue | Monthly fee | One-time onboarding |
|---|---|---|
| Under $1M | $1,900 to $3,300 | $1,000 |
| $1M to $3.5M | $2,600 to $5,300 | $1,500 |
| $3.5M to $6.5M | $3,800 to $8,300 | $3,000 |
| $6.5M to $9.5M | $5,100 to $11,800 | $4,500 |
| $9.5M to $12.5M | $6,100 to $14,900 | $6,000 |
| $12.5M to $15.5M | $7,400 to $17,650 | $7,500 |
| $15.5M to $18.5M | $9,400 to $22,400 | $9,000 |
| $18.5M+ | Quoted individually | Quoted individually |
The onboarding fee covers migrating your books back to the start of your last taxable year and getting you fully operational in 60 days. It's billed once, with your first invoice. It's the same for all three tiers. Your first month is prorated, and your monthly engagement starts on the first of the first full month.
Range reflects the three tiers below. Which one you're in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk. No payroll. No hidden line items. The onboarding fee is right here in the table.
You stop guessing.
You get the CFO work. Job costing built against the way you estimate, a 13 week cash forecast, monthly WIP, and a meeting every month that ends in decisions and never in a report.
Your bookkeeper still does the books.
Every job shows its margin while it is still open.
Everything in Core, plus the bookkeeping and bank reconciliations done for you, and the job costing and WIP software set up, loaded with your cost codes, and managed every month. Use your own online software, or move to ours and we cover it.
A bookkeeper we choose does the books and reconciliations. No payroll.
You approve, and the money side gets handled.
Everything in Strategic, plus a controller we choose who handles your bills and receivables for you the way an in-house controller would. They call vendors, pay the bills and keep the accounting current. We plan the cash flow first, and you approve every payment because it is your money.
A controller we choose does the payables and receivables. No payroll, no pay applications, no collections.
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