Debt collector: overdue invoices can be recovered without court
A professional invoice chaser argues the escalation that gets a startup paid happens in letters and deadlines, long before a courtroom. The detail of that ladder has not been made available.
A debt collector who chases unpaid invoices for a living says most overdue bills can be recovered without suing the client.
The claim was made in an article published by Sifted, written from the collector's own working experience. The argument, as stated there, is that court is the last resort rather than the lever.
That is the whole of the position on record. The sequence of letters, the deadlines attached to each, and the points at which a supplier gains leverage over a late payer have not been set out in a form that can be reported.
For a founder with money outstanding, the useful part of the claim is narrow but real: the person whose job is recovery treats litigation as the expensive option, not the default one. Anything more specific than that would be guesswork.