The system joins an overdue invoice with the scope of the service, the sign-off record and the client's question. An employee checks the material before contact.
Automation, paid once
from €3,000 net
Test on your process: €0
You pay 50% after acceptance
How much does payment collection automation for a service company cost, and when does it pay back?
Short answer
Payment collection automation for a service company costs from €3,000 net. In our scenario it pays back in 5.1 months. Today, explaining 150 service receivables by hand costs €698 a month. With the system, the same work costs €107. The responsible people in the company confirm the work and its billing. The system gathers the evidence before anyone calls the client. The test on your process is free.
Statistics
Late payment statistics 2025
52%
According to the EU Payment Observatory (2025), 52% of European companies faced problems with late payments in 2024.
What explaining service receivables costs you today
€698
a month for explaining 150 service receivables by hand
Today€698
With the system€107
Payback: 5.1 mo.
In your company
Small company
80 cases · €372 a month
9.5 mo. payback
Mid-sized company
150 cases · €698 a month
5.1 mo. payback
Service network
400 cases · €1,861 a month
1.9 mo. payback
The team gets back about 17 hours of work a month, or 2 working days, and the company €7,094 a year. We count after the time a person spends checking and after the model cost.
150 × 8 min = 20 h × €34.90 = €698 a month. With the system, a person checks the output in 15% of the old time (€105) and the model costs €2. That leaves €107. The saving is €591 a month, so €3,000 pays back in 5.1 months.
Assumptions: 8 minutes to explain a receivable and checking in 15% of the old time are our assumptions. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Model cost: 0.015652 USD per reminder draft with a separate tone check, measured in our receivables system, at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026. The payback counts saved time only. A reminder that goes out on time also recovers invoices that would otherwise go to an external agency or be written off, and we count that on your receivables during the review.
What changes when a client does not pay for extra work
Today
The invoice for extra work is overdue
Team
The client says they never ordered it
Client
The office looks for confirmation
Team
The technician remembers a verbal agreement
Team
The dispute drags on
Team
With the system
Collects overdue invoices
System
Joins them with the scope and the sign-off
AI
No confirmation? Asks the responsible person
AI
An employee decides on contact
Person
The explanation returns to the right person
System
What stays with people: The responsible people in the company confirm the work and its billing. The system gathers the evidence before anyone calls the client.
foap.com customer service: 95% of replies are sent automatically.
Users from several countries write to foap.com, in several languages. The system reads the entire conversation and the terms of that person, and then sends a response in that person's language. Questions about money and exceptions go to the team with a ready draft, so they have to check and send them.
the system sends the answers itself, without human typing
95%
the system sends the answers itself, without human typing
time from the arrival of the e-mail to the ready response (median)
30 s
time from the arrival of the e-mail to the ready response (median)
e-mails that require a response receive a ready-made draft
100%
e-mails that require a response receive a ready-made draft
less work for every 1000 answers (estimate)
47 h
less work for every 1000 answers (estimate)
Data from foap.com production, October 20-21, 2026. Estimate: 3 minutes for handwritten response.
It takes the age of the debt, the contact history and disputes into account, and a second check reviews the tone of each message. The system has no sending tool, so nothing goes out without a person. A draft with its check cost about €0.014 of model work. A demonstrator on test data.
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The invoice with the service scope and the sign-off
A question to the responsible person when confirmation is missing
A reminder draft with the evidence
A queue of disputed cases
What happens to your data
You choose the test cases. We anonymise them on request.
They stay in the EU and we delete them after the test.
We sign the NDA and the data processing agreement before we receive anything.
After acceptance you keep the code, the test set and the documentation. You pay for licences and model usage directly to the provider.
Questions
How much does receivables automation for a service company cost?
From €3,000 net, paid once. After the 5-day test the build takes 2 to 6 weeks. You get a fixed price before the contract: 50% on signing and 50% after acceptance on your own receivables.
Does the system send reminders on its own?
No. The system prepares a draft, and an employee approves it and sends it from their own inbox. Disputes and further steps stay with the company.
What if we have no sign-off record?
The system marks the case as unconfirmed and asks the person responsible for the job. The reminder waits until someone decides.
When does it not pay off?
Below 70 cases a month the payback takes more than a year. Then it is better to start with ChatGPT or Claude for the office, from €1,150 net.
What do we need to prepare?
A receivables report, jobs with their sign-off records from recent months and 20 to 100 cases where a client disputed the invoice.
What our OpenAI and Anthropic partnerships mean for you.
OpenAI makes ChatGPT and Anthropic makes Claude. We belong to the partnership programs of both companies, so we work with their tools every day and learn from the creators themselves.
Claude Partner Network
01We will select a tool for the task
We implement both ChatGPT and Claude. We check both on your documents, and you choose the one that makes fewer corrections and saves more time.
02Knowledge straight from the creators
We learn from official OpenAI and Anthropic courses and materials. Your team learns about the features and settings that work today.
03Licenses without our margin
You buy accounts directly from OpenAI or Anthropic and receive an invoice from them. We do not add anything to the license.
04Certified engineers
On the team, we have an AWS certification in machine learning and an Anthropic certification in systems architecture on Claude.
Participation in programs does not mean that OpenAI or Anthropic endorses our services.
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