Collecting Green for the Green Industry:

We serve a number of industries here at American Profit Recovery and we like to think we have a pretty good handle on the ins and outs of each particular industry. We know the challenges involved in being an oil dealer and repair company and collecting on late invoices and we serve many in the medical and dental field, helping recover their outstanding fees. Another industry we have a firm understanding of is the lawn care and landscaping industries. This Collection Agency helps many in this industry and we have even been accepted as a partner with the Professional Landcare Network -PLANET.

In many parts of the country, the warm season is coming to an end and many businesses are looking at receivables that continue to lag. Many of these businesses don’t have the manpower to chase these down during the busy season so when it slows down they begin to go after the invoices that have not been paid. Depending on how far out these late invoices are can determine if these businesses will ever get paid. That’s a problem and one we can correct. We can correct it by helping a business with internal procedures or we can help even more by helping to recover these payments for them.

We understand that when it’s busy, a landscaper or lawn care professional needs to take care of the customer and that’s all that’s on their mind. Often, office work and other duties take a back seat. We’ve put together a number of tips and we have a video which you can see here about the success we’ve had in this industry. Two things you need to do when trying to recover past due payments;

• Act early: When your invoice reaches customers before other invoices, it is more likely to be perceived as urgent and likely to get paid first. Lawn care companies who begin invoicing as early as 30-days past due on an account, have a better chance their invoices being placed on the top of the heap and settled in a more expedient manner.  
• Treat customers with diplomacy and respect: It is easy for even your most diligent customers to occasionally struggle paying their bills, especially when times are tough. Treating customers with respect produces a more successful response when trying to recover overdue accounts.