invoice escalation workflow · Exact Online
Invoice escalation for engineering firms with Exact Online.
Connect Exact Online, encode the rules your team already follows and move every open invoice toward a documented outcome.
Map this workflowOperational fit
Built around how engineering firms actually bill.
project stages, time charges and variation orders.
delivery, approval and payment are tied to long project timelines.
unapproved variations can look overdue while commercial review is active.
separate genuine delay from certification or variation-order review.
One controlled route from signal to outcome.
move unresolved invoices through proportionate internal and external routes. Every escalation requires the preceding steps and evidence to be complete.
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Verify prior actions
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Check value and relationship thresholds
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Notify the responsible owner
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Hand off with a complete audit trail
Exact Online data contract
Use the ledger as truth. Add the decision layer it lacks.
DueHello reads receivable status from the connected administration and keeps the accounting record as the source of truth. Connect the administration, select the entities in scope and map the sender identity before activating a playbook.
Evidence remains attached to the decision.
For this workflow, DueHello keeps prior contact attempts, approval or hold status, handoff package. The team can see what happened without reconstructing it from inboxes.
prior contact attempts
approval or hold status
handoff package
Questions before you put it into production.
How is invoice escalation used by a engineering firm?+
DueHello monitors project stages, time charges and variation orders, applies the configured receivables policy and records why each action was sent, paused or routed to project director and commercial finance.
What data does DueHello use from Exact Online?+
The workflow uses invoice number and customer, issue date, due date and open amount, payment and credit status, administration and reference. DueHello reads receivable status from the connected administration and keeps the accounting record as the source of truth.
What stops the invoice escalation workflow?+
The workflow stops or changes route when payment, response, internal hold or formal handoff. DueHello then separate genuine delay from certification or variation-order review.
Does DueHello replace the finance or account team?+
No. DueHello performs the permitted follow-up and brings exceptions to the accountable person with the context and evidence needed to decide.
Map this against real invoices.
Bring one month of project stages, time charges and variation orders. We will map the policy, exceptions and Exact Online data route with your team.
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