The trips ran daily. The invoicing ran monthly. Nobody calls that a problem, it is just how billi...The trips ran daily. The invoicing ran monthly. Nobody calls that a problem, it is just how billi...
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The trips ran daily. The invoicing ran monthly. Nobody calls that a problem, it is just how billing works.
At The Joshua Agency it took 30+ days to get from a completed trip to a cleared invoice. They run wheelchair, stretcher and sedan trips as a non-emergency medical transport operator across Alabama and five more states, so there is a lot of finished work sitting in that queue at any moment.
Capture. Every completed trip as it closes. Nobody re-keys anything.
Check. Rates and trip detail before anything goes out. A wrong line item is not a small delay, it is a whole cycle lost.
Build. The invoice packet with the full breakdown attached.
Send. To the right payer, then track it until it clears.
Same trips, same team, same drivers. The waiting is what left.
Two things I would do the same way again:
Fix the checking step before the sending step. Everyone assumes the delay is getting invoices out the door. It usually is not. It is the back and forth afterwards, and that is caused by what was wrong when it went. Validate before you send and most of the chasing disappears on its own.
Measure the cycle, not the tasks. "Invoicing takes us two days" is the wrong number. The one that matters is days from finished work to cleared invoice, because that is the one the business actually feels. Most operators have never measured it, which is why it never gets fixed.
Figures in the image are illustrative and there is no passenger data on it, for obvious reasons.
If you run trips, jobs or site visits: do you know your number? Days from finished work to cleared invoice. Reply with it and I will tell you which step is eating it.
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