Chaos with a spreadsheet, then a factoring company taking a tax on every invoice.
- One person doing AR — usually also doing payroll, onboarding, and answering the office phone.
- A spreadsheet refreshed weekly, if you're lucky. Most aging buckets are running on memory.
- Only the loudest invoices get chased. The quiet ones sit at 65 days while you fund payroll out of the line of credit.
- By day 60 the factoring company is the only option, and you're paying 2.5% to use your own money.






