Solution
Get paid faster and stop chasing checks.
Collect by card the moment the work is done, take deposits up front, and keep a card on file for recurring customers — so the money lands while you're still in the driveway. Part of Cardo CRM, and you get flat monthly pricing with unlimited users.
Book a DemoThe work is done. So why is the money still weeks away?
For a lot of service businesses, the gap between finishing a job and actually getting paid is the quietest cash-flow killer there is. You mail an invoice, it sits in someone's pile, you send a reminder, you finally get a check three weeks later — and meanwhile you've floated payroll and materials out of your own pocket. The fix is to shrink the distance between the work and the ask. When the crew can tap a card on-site the second the job wraps, when a deposit is collected at booking, and when recurring customers have a card on file that bills automatically, payment stops being a chase. Because all of it runs through the same Cardo CRM as your jobs and customers, every payment posts to the right record automatically — no separate reconciliation.
Collect on-site
Crews tap a card on their phone the moment the job’s done — tips included — before they pull away.
Deposits up front
Require a deposit at booking to protect against no-shows and start the job already partly paid.
Card on file
Recurring customers bill automatically each visit, turning collections into something that just happens.
Flat monthly, unlimited users
Invoicing and card payments are in the $99 Starter plan, settling to your own Stripe account with no Cardo surcharge on top. Crew collecting on-site comes with Pro and the crew app.
Powered by invoicing & payments. Related: recurring scheduling, lead follow-up. See it by trade: moving, junk removal.
Faster payment is a cash-flow strategy, not a collections tactic.
When you shrink the time between finishing work and getting paid, you change how the whole business feels. Instead of floating payroll and materials on your own cash while you wait on checks, the money is in your account when the job is done — which means you can take the next job, buy the next load of materials, and make payroll without watching the bank balance. Speed of payment is really a measure of how much of your own money you're forced to lend your customers between the work and the deposit.
The tools that get you paid faster — on-site card payment, deposits, card on file, easy pay-by-link, automatic invoice follow-up — each remove a delay you probably built in by accident. None of them are about being aggressive with customers; they're about removing friction so paying you is the easy, obvious thing to do the moment the work is finished. Add them up and the gap between “done” and “paid” goes from weeks to minutes.
Getting paid faster — FAQs
How does Cardo CRM help me get paid faster?
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It lets you collect payment at the moment the work is done — a card tapped on the crew’s phone before they leave the driveway — instead of mailing an invoice and waiting. You can also take deposits at booking and keep a card on file for recurring customers so the charge happens automatically. The faster the ask follows the work, the faster the money lands.
Can the crew collect payment in the field?
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Yes. Through the Stripe connection, crews can take a card on-site from their phone the second the job wraps — including tips — and the payment posts to the customer’s record. No “the office will send an invoice,” which is where so much money stalls.
What about deposits and recurring billing?
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You can require a deposit when a job is booked to protect against no-shows, and keep a card on file for recurring customers so each visit bills itself. That turns collections from a chase into something that just happens on schedule.
Which plan includes this?
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Every plan. Invoicing and card payments is in the $99 Starter plan along with scheduling, dispatch, quoting, invoicing and card payments — the office side is never the thing you upgrade for. Every plan is flat monthly with unlimited users, so growing the team doesn’t grow the bill.
Close the gap to payday.
Book a 30-minute demo and we'll run an on-site payment and a card-on-file charge.
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