The manual AR problem

Still taking payments over the phone? There’s a better way.

Manual AR works until you want to grow — when slow paying customers pile up and the back office becomes the bottleneck on scaling. The guide shows how to fix that without adding headcount.

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Trusted by leading finance teams in the physical economy

  • Dartmouth Building Supply
  • Fairbank
  • R.F. Fager Co.
  • Reichert Woodworks
  • Chaney Enterprises
  • Dunn Lumber
  • Hardman Lumber
  • Davis-Hawn Lumber
  • Capital Forest Products
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The problem

Manual AR has a ceiling. And growth finds it.

Phone payments, spreadsheet tracking, and a credit team working flat out can carry a business a long way. Then volume climbs, slow paying customers pile up, and manual accounts receivable starts dropping accounts it used to catch.

The back office becomes the constraint on growth, and hiring your way out gets expensive fast.

A credit manager working through paper invoices at a busy distributor branch counter
What changes

Capacity without headcount.

Suppli works every account every day, matches 90%+ of payments automatically, and lets customers pay from a text link, so the credit team’s capacity stops being the ceiling. The guide walks through the shift from manual AR to an automated lifecycle, and why AR is the right place to start.

Agent Activity

Actions today

1,847

Collected

$412,905

Escalations

1

Midwest Building SupplyCompleteSent a payment reminder by text · #48201 · $8,420.00
Valley Electrical ContractorsCompleteRead a check and matched it to 3 invoices · $12,905.00
Summit IndustrialCompletePulled 3 trade references · recommends Net 30, $50,000
Northern Pipe & SteelEscalatedEscalated to Dana — freight disputed on $4,180.00

Finance teams are seeing the working-capital impact in month one.

R.F. Fager Co.
“Suppli lets me do the job I was hired to do. It's taken our credit process from reactive to proactive.”
Lisa FaketeCredit Manager
Big Creek Lumber
“Suppli has helped us so, so much. It's really unbelievable how the adoption has gone. Our customers love it.”
Mary AllenCFO

See the path off manual AR.

The guide walks through the shift from manual AR to an automated lifecycle — and why AR is the right place to start.