Stop Leaving Money on the Table: A Smarter Way to Get Paid

Chasing invoices client by client, checking a bank account for a deposit, hoping the check in the mail is the right one. Nic Rogers, COO of LedgerWay, joins Baxter Lanius, CEO of Alternative Payments, for a live look at what changes when accounts receivable stops being reactive.

About a third of B2B invoices are still paid by check, and each one costs roughly $14 to process manually, on top of credit card fees that eat 3% off the top. Nic and Baxter walk through what automating AR actually looks like: auto-pay with customizable limits, customer-level credit card surcharging, an embedded collections workflow, and a branded self-serve client portal that connects with QuickBooks, NetSuite, and Xero.

Customers using this approach have cut days sales outstanding by 70–80%, bringing average collection time down to about 5 days. LedgerWay clients who join Alternative Payments get 10% off, and the session closes with live Q&A on migration and onboarding timelines.

Join Nic and Baxter for a conversation about what it actually takes to get paid in days, not weeks.

Key Learnings

• How automated AR collapses a 35-to-45-day collection cycle down to about 5 days
• Why $0 ACH fees beat the $5–$25 per payment most processors charge
• How customer-level credit card surcharging can save a $1M+ revenue business tens of thousands a year
• What a 30-day acceleration in cash flow is actually worth (close to $100K on $1M in revenue)
• How an embedded collections workflow and branded client portal end manual reconciliation