Know the morning a client payment goes late
Contractors carry the cost of a job before they're paid for it: materials, labor, subcontractors. When a client invoice goes past due and nobody notices for three weeks, that gap gets expensive.
Why this matters more on jobs
- Invoices are often large. A single overdue invoice on a remodel or build can be a bigger amount than most businesses see in a whole late-paying relationship.
- Draws and progress billing add invoices up fast. A job with monthly draws means several invoices in flight at once, easy to lose track of.
- You're financing the next job with this one's payment. A late payment isn't just annoying, it can delay material orders or payroll for the next job.
- Retainage adds a second, invisible clock. The 5–10% held back until completion doesn't show as overdue on a normal aging report — and neither does a closing mechanic's lien deadline. See retainage and lien deadlines.
What CashWatchdog does
Every morning it checks your QuickBooks Online company for invoices that are past their due date and still unpaid. If it finds any, you get one email listing the customer, the invoice number, the amount and how many days overdue it is. Each invoice is flagged once when it goes overdue, and once more at 30 days if it's still open.
- Reads, never writes: it never creates, changes or sends anything in QuickBooks.
- One minute to set up: connect through Intuit's sign-in, done.
- $29/month (or $290/year), with a 14-day free trial.
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