For accountants, bookkeepers and insolvency practitioners

You see the aged debtor report. Now you have an answer for it.

Give every client a free recoverability scan, watch the money come back through a portal of your own, and earn a share of every fee we take from them. No extra work for your team, and no liability for your practice.

£0
to join. No fee, no minimum, no software to install, and no liability for your practice
Clients contract with Clearline directly
Monthly
your share of the fees we earn from the clients you introduce, paid against fees received with a statement by client
Recovery fees and subscriptions alike
60 sec
from a client's aged debtor export to a recoverability report showing what is collectable and what the law adds on top
Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent or CSV
0 hours
of your team's time. We onboard, chase, recover, report and remit. You stay copied in
No liability, no advice, no guarantee
How it works

Three steps, and the third one repeats every month.

STEP 1

Send the scan

Send a client your referral link, or run their aged debtor export through the scan from your practice portal. They get a recoverability report in 60 seconds showing the statutory interest and compensation sitting in the ledger, and the introduction is credited to you. It costs them nothing and commits them to nothing.

STEP 2

We do the work

Clients who instruct us get relationship-safe recovery on published rates: 10, 15 or 25% of what we collect by the age of the debt, or 8, 12 or 20% for subscribers. Or full credit control from £295 a month. Nothing formal goes to a customer of theirs without their written approval. You are kept informed, never involved.

STEP 3

You share the revenue

A share of every fee we earn from that client, on recovery fees and on subscriptions, at the rate set in the heads of terms for your practice. Paid monthly against fees actually received, with a statement itemised by client. Recurring subscriptions mean recurring income for your practice.

Why practices partner with us

The hardest conversation in credit control becomes the easiest one.

You already show clients their debtor days. Until now the advice ended at "chase them harder". A scan that puts a number on what is recoverable, including the interest and compensation the law already gives them, turns that conversation into a win you delivered.

£4,000 to £10,000Money they did not know they had

Typical unclaimed statutory compensation in a ledger of 100 late invoices, before a penny of principal. Every late invoice carries £40, £70 or £100 by law, plus interest at base rate plus 8%.

Six yearsPaid late still counts

The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 applies to invoices paid late in the last six years, not just the ones still open. Our late payment audit claims it and we take 18% of what comes back.

Nothing to installNo software, no minimum

No integration to set up and no volume you have to hit. Introduce one client or fifty. The advisory credit is yours; the chasing is ours.

One personA named specialist

One person at Clearline looks after every client you introduce and answers you in the portal, usually the same working day. Nothing confidential travels by email.

Their approvalThe client stays in control

Every letter is visible before and after it goes. Nothing formal is sent without written approval, and the client sets the settlement floor and instalment limit we may agree without asking.

Kept apartTheir customers stay theirs

You see the numbers for every client you introduce. You see the case detail, and a debtor's name, only where that client has ticked to share it with you. They can untick it at any time.

Your practice portal

Every client you introduce, and what we have done for them.

The practice portal is where the partnership lives. Introduce a client by email and they get an activation code with your practice named on it. Run a scan on their ledger yourself, or send them the link. Message your specialist about any client without leaving the page.

The numbers view shows the month in full: cases instructed, letters sent, money recovered, the statutory sums claimed on it, the recovery rate on cases old enough to judge, and your commission by month. The same figures go on your monthly statement.

Open a specimen scan report (PDF)

  • Overview. Clients introduced, sharing status, money recovered and commission earned, this month and to date.
  • Your clients. Numbers for all of them; case detail where a client has shared it.
  • Introduce a client. One email address. We send the invitation, the activation code and the onboarding link, with your practice named.
  • Run a scan. Upload a client's aged debtor export and hand them the report yourself.
  • Appointments. For insolvency practices: each appointment, its realisation report and its settlement authority.
  • Messages. Your specialist, in the portal, usually the same working day.
For insolvency practitioners

Book debts on an appointment, collected on your say-so.

For an insolvency practice the same portal carries each appointment: the realisation report in two phases, the settlement authority you set per company, and instruction against the signed appointment schedule. We write as the office holder's agent, with the permitted wording for the procedure, and nothing goes to a debtor of the company until you have approved it.

Phase one: the realisation report

Every book debt on the schedule, its age, its counterparty's status at Companies House, and what we expect to realise. Before anything is sent.

Phase two: collection under your authority

You set the floor and the instalment limit per company. Anything below it comes back to you as a proposal, with the figures, and waits for your approval.

Fees agreed per practice

The fee schedule for appointment work is set in the heads of terms for your practice, not on a public rate card. Ask for the heads of terms and it comes back with your practice filled in.

The terms, in plain words

Two pages, signed by both sides before the first client is introduced.

Your share

A share of every fee Clearline earns from a client you introduce, on recovery fees and on credit control subscriptions. The rate and the period are set in the heads of terms for your practice.

When it is paid

Monthly, against fees actually received, with a statement that itemises it by client. Nothing is paid on fees that have not been received.

Your liability

None. Clients contract with Clearline directly on Clearline's published terms. You introduce; you do not advise on or guarantee the recovery.

Your clients' data

A client's customers are never shown to you unless the client chooses to share them. Clearline is the data controller for the recovery work and is ICO registered; a data processing agreement for the scan is part of the heads of terms.

Ending it

Either side on thirty days' written notice. The share on clients already introduced runs to the end of its agreed period.

What you get sent

A specimen scan report on an invented ledger, so you can see what lands in a client's inbox, and the heads of terms with your fee schedule filled in. Both are in the partner pack →

Partner enquiries.

We take on a limited number of accountancy, bookkeeping and insolvency partners each quarter so every practice gets a named specialist and proper support. Tell us about your practice and we will send the heads of terms by name.