You’re owed seven figures in stuck retainage and forgotten change orders right now. We chase every one until it pays.
30-day deployment · DSO drop guaranteed in writing · No annual lock-in
Read-only integration. We sit on top of your ERP, not in place of it.
- [Healthcare GC]$84,20067 days outstandingEscalated to AP Director
- [Industrial owner]$51,30073 days outstandingLien deadline in 9 days · prelim filedLien risk
- [Project A — Phase 2 complete]$128,500Substantial completion 14 mo agoRelease packet sent
- [Project B — Punch list closed]$96,800Closeout docs verifiedFinal waiver in queue
- CO #14$42,600Submitted 38 days agoFollowing up with PM today
- CO #22$18,900GC verbal approval receivedWritten approval pending
Two ways to do AR in commercial construction.
Your AR team today
30% touched on cadence
70% aging quietly
Most mid-market AR teams cover 25–35% of open balances. The rest age.
Your AR with Receve
95%+ touched on cadence
Including retainage, change orders, and pre-due nudges
Every open balance gets a follow-up the day it’s created. Nothing ages quietly.
Coverage is the lever. Everything else stacks on top of it.
30 days to live. No data migration. No re-org.
We do the integration, the voice match, and the soft launch. Your team keeps doing what they do — with coverage on the 70% they couldn’t get to before.
Connect your ERP
One working session with your controller. Read-only sync with Sage, Foundation, Viewpoint, Procore, or your construction-grade ERP of choice. Receve reads your aging, project list, contract values, retainage schedule, change order log, and contact list. No data leaves your system. No write-back.
Map your projects and contacts
Receve learns the GC contact map per project, AP director per GC, retainage release schedule per contract, lien deadline by state, and your team's collection voice from past emails. The voice match is per-tenant and never shared.
Watch the coverage gap close
Every past-due invoice, every open change order, every retainage balance gets touched on cadence. Daily AR workspace shows what moved, what's stuck, and which GCs are slipping. Weekly DSO and cash forecast lands in your inbox without anyone running it.
Coverage is the mechanism. These are the moving parts.
Receve ships in three tiers. Each builds on the one before. Start where the pain is, expand as you go.
AR Agent
The voice-matched AR agent that chases every past-due invoice on the right cadence until it pays.
- Voice-matched email follow-up trained on your team's past emails
- Weekly cadence on every past-due invoice across all active projects
- Escalation rules from PM to AP Director to GC executive
- Daily AR workspace showing what moved, what's stuck
- Weekly DSO and cash forecast report
- Pay-when-paid pattern detection per GC
- DSO drop guaranteed in writing within 90 days
Retainage Recovery
Everything in Tier 01, plus retainage release workflow and aged retainage audit.
- Retainage release workflow triggered at substantial completion
- Aged retainage audit on projects sitting on your books for 6+ months
- State-aware final lien waiver templates
- Closeout packet checklist per project
- Pre-due nudges before progress billings hit
Full AR Coverage
Everything in Tier 02, plus change order tracking and lien deadline management by state.
- Change order follow-up cadence from submission to payment
- PM-level and executive-level escalation on stalled change orders
- Lien deadline tracking by state and project
- Preliminary notice deadline alerts
- Bond claim deadline alerts
- Disputed change order documentation routing
Roadmap dates reflect current development targets. Tier 01 customers receive Tier 02 and Tier 03 features at no additional setup as they ship.
What’s stuck in your AR right now?
Move the sliders. The numbers update in real time. DSO recovery is one-time working capital. Retainage and change order recovery repeat every year.
// working capital freed = (annual revenue ÷ 365) × tiered DSO reduction (8–20 days by starting DSO) · retainage recovery = aged retainage balance × 30% coverage gap closed · factoring savings = annual revenue × current factoring rate · numbers shown are illustrative until verified against your ERP data on the discovery call
Compared to what you’re using right now.
Your ERP runs the books. Your AR person works the loudest invoices. A factoring or SCF product covers the gap with a discount. Receve sits between them and removes the gap entirely.
| Capability | Receve (Tier 01) | Sage / Foundation / Viewpoint AR module | Factoring / SCF |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generate invoices and statements | |||
| Automated voice-matched follow-up on every past-due invoice | |||
| Escalation rules from PM to AP Director to GC executive | |||
| GC pay-pattern early warning | |||
| Daily AR workspace | |||
| You keep 100% of invoice value | Discount taken on every invoice | ||
| Setup in 30 days | Months | Days |
The AR problem isn't software. It's coverage.
The construction AR problem isn’t that Sage or Foundation is broken. It’s that your AR person is one human covering hundreds of open invoices, change orders, and retainage balances across thirty active projects, and they can physically only touch 25 to 35% of the list in a given week.
The GCs paying you slowly aren’t usually disputing the work. They’re sitting in their own AP queue, waiting on the owner, missing a lien waiver, or holding retainage that nobody on either side has time to release. A well-timed follow-up from the right contact in the right tone moves the invoice. Nobody sends those at scale because they don’t scale — until they do.
Receve doesn’t replace your AR person. It gives them coverage on the 70% they can’t get to, so they can focus on the 30% that actually need a human voice on the line.
Median DSO in construction is 83 days— longer than any other industry tracked by PwC. The next-worst industries land in the 50–60 range.
PwC via CFMA →56% of subcontractors wait more than 60 days to collect retainage. Nearly 1 in 4commercial subs wait longer than 90 days. Retainage typically runs 5–10% of contract value.
Levelset Construction Cash Flow Report →Subs wait an average of 56 days after submitting a pay app, while GCs believe the cycle takes 30. The 26-day gap is where Receve operates.
Billd 2025 via DocJoist →If your DSO doesn’t drop, you don’t pay.
Your DSO must drop 12 days or more within 90 days of go-live. If it doesn’t, your full subscription is refunded. Written into the contract. Not a marketing line, not a footnote, not a maybe.
The straight answers.
No. Receve handles the volume work: follow-up cadence on past-due invoices, retainage release queues, change order tracking, lien deadline alerts, statement generation. Your AR person and controller handle the relationships, the disputes, and the judgment calls. If you don't have a dedicated AR person today, Receve can run with the controller reviewing the workspace once a day.
Stop writing off retainage you’ve already earned.
Book a discovery call. We’ll pull a no-cost AR audit of your last 12 months, surface what’s stuck in retainage and unresolved change orders, and quote a recovery target before you decide anything.
// free AR audit · 30-day deployment · DSO guarantee in writing