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Order-to-cash consulting

Faster cash, fewer disputes and a clearer view of receivables. We transform order-to-cash end to end, from order management and credit to collections and reconciliation.

Our order-to-cash consulting services can take you from strategy and process design through to vendor selection, data architecture, system implementation and adoption.

 

Revenue isn't real until it hits the bank, making a seamless order-to-cash (O2C) process the backbone of business growth. Many organisations, however, struggle with fragmented data handovers between CRM, contract management, billing, payments, tax, and ERP platforms. Invoices are checked manually before they are sent. Credit notes become the fix for failures upstream. Cash lands unapplied because remittance data does not match the invoice. Disputes sit unresolved and quietly turn into days sales outstanding (DSO).

Over time, these siloed workflows cause unbilled usage and revenue leakage: money your business earned, recorded, and lost before it could reach your accounts. 

However, most of these are not billing problems. They begin earlier; in how orders are captured, how contracts and price changes are recorded, how entitlement is triggered, and how data moves between systems and teams. Fix those handovers, and most of the downstream noise disappears.

Clarasys helps finance and operations leaders eliminate these friction points, transforming complex order to cash workflows into scalable, automated engines. As an independent consultancy, we help finance and operations leaders transform their order to cash operations into scalable, automated engines. Our pragmatic, outcome-led approach combines process redesign with practical change management to fix critical handovers across your teams and tech stack. We deliver measurable results and, as a tech-agnostic firm, work closely with all the industry leaders, including Salesforce, Zuora, NetSuite, Stripe, BillingPlatform, Chargebee, and SAP. 

Our deep expertise in O2C consulting and revenue architecture allows us to pinpoint where margin is lost, quantify exceptions, and embed robust operational controls. By bringing strategy, platform integration, and team adoption together, we empower your billing, receivables, and revenue teams to operate with complete clarity and confidence.

The benefits of getting your order-to-cash process right

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More accurate invoicing

Invoices that are consolidated, accurate, and on time, mean customers can easily review against their purchase orders and pay. Resulting in fewer queries, fewer credit notes, and a billing experience nobody has to manage.

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Reduce days sales outstanding

Accelerate order-to-cash processes at every stage. Gain faster order acceptance, send invoices out on time, prioritise collections, and have cash applied automatically rather than matched by hand.

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Reduce revenue leakage

When usage is captured, mid-term changes are priced, entitlements match what was sold, then what you billed reconciles to what you contracted and recognised.

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Lower your cost to serve

Automate the routine matching, dunning, and reconciliation work so finance and revenue operations can handle more customers, more pricing models, and more transactions without adding headcount.

order to cash how we can help

Most billing errors occur before billing starts. To eliminate these we can review and redesign order capture, credit checks, approvals, and entitlement so that customer purchases are recorded correctly. Building the billing logic of rating and pricing, proration, co-terming, overage and true-up, tax, consolidation, and the billing close prevents revenue leaks before billing cycles even start. Organisations will achieve first-time invoice accuracy, streamlined mid-term contract modifications, and reporting confidence during monthly close periods.

We segment receivables by value, risk, and behaviour, then design collections and dunning that match: automated for low-touch accounts, relationship-led where the balance justifies it. Disputes get a proper intake, ownership, and resolution path, and we feed the reasons back upstream so the same dispute stops recurring. Finance leaders gain predictable cash flow, lower Days Sales Outstanding, and a reduction in recurring invoice disputes.

We improve remittance capture and matching rules, reduce unapplied and on-account cash, and design the reconciliation between billing, payments, the receivables sub-ledger, and the general ledger.  Finance teams obtain a fully transparent, defensible audit trail across all transaction streams, supporting strict compliance and revenue recognition standards. Unlocked finance team capacity shifts away from tedious operational reconciliation toward strategic business growth.

When the process needs new tooling, we run vendor-agnostic evaluations across configure-price-quote, subscription management, billing, payments, and ERP systems to clarify total cost of ownership and integration complexity. Together, we’ll define the target architecture and integration pattern, and support implementation, data migration, and cutover, giving business leaders a future-proof tech stack that matches your unique commercial ambitions. We also prepare the people: training, new ways of working, and the internal capability to keep improving order to cash after we leave. 

Our order-to-cash consulting services

Order-to-cash process optimisation

Redesign order management, billing, invoicing, receivables, and collections flows. Cut manual steps, reconciliations, and workarounds, and give teams a process that scales.

Billing and revenue management

Independent design and implementation of billing, invoicing, payments, collections, and revenue recognition across the leading platforms. 

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Subscriptions management

Design, launch, and scale subscription, consumption, overage, and hybrid offerings, from pricing architecture through operating model to technology.

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Receivables, collections, and dispute management

Build a collections operation that prioritises by risk and value, resolves disputes at source, and makes payment easy for customers.

Revenue assurance and leakage review

Trace what was sold, provisioned, billed, collected, and recognised, quantify where value is lost, and close the gaps with controls that hold.

Technology evaluation, architecture, and selection

Run vendor-agnostic evaluations across billing, CPQ, ERP, payments, and collections tools, and define the architecture that supports your target process.

System integration and data migration

Connect order, billing, payments, tax, revenue and ERP systems, and migrate contracts, balances, and open receivables effectively so reporting and controls are in place from day one.

Compliance, controls, and revenue recognition

Embed the accounting policies, revenue recognition rules, and financial controls that efficient, compliant billing demands, across territories, currencies, and product lines.

Change management and training

Prepare finance, revenue operations, and service teams for new O2C processes and tools, and embed the skills to keep improving them internally.

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    Meet the experts

    Ben Lover

    Ben has over 11 years of cross-industry consulting experience having joined Clarasys from Accenture in 2015. Ben has a broad range of project and CRM experience across the lifecycle including project/delivery management, business analysis and implementation. He is comfortable managing onshore and offshore teams through complex releases with strong stakeholder management skills and is able to translate functional and technical issues into a clear direction. Ben applies agile principles and innovation/expertise to projects. Ben spends lots of his time away from work participating in and watching an array of sports.

    Matt Brooks

    Matt is an experienced business consultant with expertise in the implementation and improvement of CRM and subscription billing technologies and processes. His specialisms include supporting clients in the adoption of subscription business models and supporting technologies, with a focus on improving their customer experience. Most recently, he has worked on the agile delivery of a subscription billing platform for a global education publishing and assessment company, who were looking to transition their legacy business model to a subscription-based offering.

    Ruairi Sparkes

    Ruairi is a business consultant experienced in business analysis and system delivery across L2C, with expertise in Zuora and Salesforce. Ruairi joined Clarasys in 2018 and has predominantly worked across the Information Services and N4P industries. Most recently Ruairi led the solution design and implementation of Zuora at a sports technology retailer. Away from work, Ruairi enjoys watching and playing sports, as well as cooking and travelling.

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