What you get, what your clients get, what it costs them, what you earn, and the terms in plain words. Nothing here needs a meeting to understand, and nothing commits you until you sign the heads of terms.
A referral link, clearline.co.uk/yourpractice, and a recoverability report headed with your name for any client or prospect. You can run it yourself from the practice portal, or send them the link. It costs them nothing and commits them to nothing.
Every client you introduce, with cases instructed, letters sent, money recovered, the statutory sums on it, the recovery rate on cases old enough to judge, and your commission by month. You see a client's individual cases only where they have ticked to share them with you.
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.
No recovery, no fee: 10, 15 or 25% of what we collect by the age of the debt, or 8, 12 or 20% for subscribers. The statutory interest and compensation under the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 is calculated on every eligible invoice and claimed as part of the process, including on invoices that were paid late in the last six years.
Every case, every letter before and after it goes, every reply, every receipt. Nothing formal goes to a customer of theirs without their written approval, and they set the settlement floor and instalment limit we may agree without asking them.
| Your share | 10% of every fee Clearline earns from a client you introduce, on recovery fees and on credit control subscriptions, for twenty-four months from each introduction. |
| 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 their twenty-four months. |
| Insolvency work | 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 on your say-so against the signed appointment schedule. The fee schedule for that work is agreed per practice in the heads of terms. |
The report a client receives after a scan, on an invented ledger, so you can see what lands in their inbox with your name on it.
Open the specimen report (PDF)Two pages, sent to you by name once you have asked to partner, with the fee schedule for your practice filled in. Signed by both sides before the first client is introduced.
Ask for the heads of termsRegister as a partner in about six minutes, or run a scan on a client's ledger first and see the report before you decide.