Counted from the due date, not the day the invoice was
written. A thirty-day invoice issued thirty-one days ago is one day late,
not thirty-one — an ageing that says otherwise makes every good payer look
delinquent. Every figure here is a button and lands on the invoices behind it.
Merchant
Their terms
Owed
Not yet due
1–30
31–60
61–90
Over 90
Oldest
Last paid
Who to ring first
An order, never a score. A number beside a merchant's name
reads as a credit rating; this is a morning's work. A broken promise goes
to the top whatever its age — somebody named a date, the date has gone and the
money has not — then the oldest, because a small invoice at ninety days says
something a large one at five does not.
Merchant
Overdue
Oldest
Where they are on the ladder
Last chased
A promise needs a date. "They said they
would sort it" is a note, and there is a field for notes.
When
How
What happened
Promised
Note
Invoice
Merchant
Due
Outstanding
Days late
State
The ladder
These six figures are proposals, not measurements. They come
from ordinary trade-credit practice, not from Osoro's own history — Osoro has no
history, because no invoice has ever been issued to a real merchant. Every row
says where its number came from, and the intended use of this table is that you
read it, disagree with three rows, and change those three.