Most freelancers lose billable hours to invoice administration every month.
Industry surveys consistently place the figure at 8 to 12 hours per month. The majority of that time is not spent creating invoices. It is spent on the work that comes after: identifying which invoices are overdue, determining the appropriate follow-up timing and tone for each customer, writing the email, and tracking whether the customer responded.
Invoicing tools handle the first half of the process well. They generate the invoice, send it, and record the payment when it arrives. What they do not do is manage the collection interval between “sent” and “paid.” That interval is where payment delays accumulate, and where freelancers spend time that could otherwise be billed.
Chasivo is built specifically for this interval. It imports invoices and customer data from any source via CSV or Excel, profiles each customer’s payment behaviour over time, scores each invoice’s risk of going late before the due date, and drafts follow-ups calibrated to the customer relationship and escalation stage. Follow-ups send from the freelancer’s own Gmail address via OAuth. The recipient sees a personal email, not a platform notification.
Manual follow-ups versus automated collection.
Without Chasivo
With Chasivo
What Chasivo adds to your AR workflow.
AI follow-up drafts
Native inbox delivery
Per-invoice risk scoring
Customer payment profiling
Unified inbox
Import from any accounting tool
Three modes of automation, configurable per customer.
Copilot drafts the follow-up and holds it for review. Nothing sends without explicit approval. Appropriate for new customers, large outstanding balances, or relationships where the tone of each communication matters.
Manual keeps risk scoring and profiling active but disables all AI-generated communication. Appropriate for customers where all correspondence is handled directly by a specific person.
Set a default at the account level. Override per customer as needed. Individual invoices can be paused independently — the customer’s remaining invoices continue under their assigned mode. When a paused invoice resumes, the follow-up sequence picks up at the correct escalation stage based on prior activity, rather than restarting from the beginning.