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Hire an accounts receivable specialist

Hiring an accounts receivable specialist? Three things to know.

What it costs, how long it takes, and what changes when you fill the seat with us. The numbers come from the 17 AP, AR and payroll postings we read.

The cost
$76,800
a year, for an accounts receivable specialist, at the $57,494 median of the 13 AP, AR and payroll postings that listed pay, once you add payroll taxes and benefits.
With usA named accounts receivable specialist plus software agents. As the agents take more of the work, you pay for fewer hours. Quoted on the call.
The wait
About 90 days
is the median time to fill an accounting role. Until then the work lands on someone who already has a job.
With usNamed candidates for your posting, free to interview, and your pick working within the month.
What changes
Every weekday
payments matched to the right invoice as they land, and overdue invoices followed up.
With usAgents send invoices, match payments and send the reminders you approved. Your AR specialist checks every match and makes the calls.
Get candidates for this seat
  • Free to interview
  • First month money-back
  • Six-month replacement
  • Month to month
What the posting asks for

What an accounts receivable specialist posting usually asks for, line by line.

We read 17 US AP, AR and payroll postings in full. These are the duties they named most, and who takes each one when we fill the seat.

17 AP, AR and payroll postings read2 years: median experience asked, where stated16 of 17 were full time
What the posting asks forPostings that askWho takes it with us
Invoicing and billing
8 of 17
agents
Agents send invoices on schedule and match payments to them.
Bank and card reconciliation
8 of 17
agents
Agents match deposits and payouts. Your person clears what is left.
Collections follow-up
7 of 17
agentsperson
Agents send the reminders you approved. Your person makes the calls.
Journal entries and general ledger
7 of 17
agentsperson
Agents draft the routine ones. Your person reviews and posts them.
Month-end close
6 of 17
agentsperson
Agents bring the receivables up to date. Your person signs off that side.
Audit prep
6 of 17
agentsperson
Agents gather the invoices and receipts. Your person answers the questions.

A posting counts if it names the duty anywhere in its text. From our September 2026 read of real US postings (AP, AR and payroll postings counted together). Your own posting is sorted the same way on the first call.

Who does what

Agents do the routine. Your AR specialist checks it.

The accounts receivable specialist seat's month, as one checklist. The agents tick their lines first. Your AR specialist checks every one of them, then does the work that needs a person.

Square: done by software agents Round: done or checked by your AR specialist
5 of 5lines done by agents
10 of 10checked or done by your AR specialist
The receivables month · accounts receivable specialist seatin your own software
TaskAgentsYour AR specialist
Done by agents, checked by your AR specialist
Invoices sent on scheduledonechecked
Payments matched to invoicesdonechecked
Reminders on overdue invoicesdonechecked
Aging report kept currentdonechecked
Stripe and Shopify payouts matcheddonechecked
Done by your AR specialist
Customer disputes·done
Credit and payment-plan decisions·done
Calls on large or late accounts·done
Write-off recommendations·done
Cash forecast with you·done
Every payment matched to its invoiceevery line checked by a person

What you get, every month

The same list every month, checked by your person before it reaches you. The hours report shows the routine share moving to the agents over time.

On your schedule
Invoices out on the dates you set, in the format your customers expect.
Every weekday
Payments matched to the right invoice as they land.
Every week
Reminders on overdue invoices, in the tone you set, and an aging report that is current.
Every month
A list of the accounts that need a call, with your person's recommendation on each.
Every month
An hours report: what the agents did and what your AR specialist did, task by task.
What the seat costs

What an accounts receivable specialist really costs you.

$57,494 is the median pay in the 13 AP, AR and payroll postings we read that listed pay. Posted pay is where the cost starts. Every employer pays two more lines on top: payroll taxes and benefits, at the federal average for companies under 50 staff.

That is $19,300 a year the posting never shows.

An illustration from public averages, not a quote. Each line is rounded to the nearest $100. Same method as our seat cost calculator, where you can put in the pay you posted. What loaded cost means

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE SEATone year, loaded
Base paymedian of 13 postings with pay, rounded$57,500
Payroll taxes10.7%+ $6,100
Benefits and insurance23.0%+ $13,200
A YEAR$76,800
$6,400a month
$36.92an hour
+34%over pay
Before you meet them

Four checks, every candidate.

Every accounts receivable specialist we put forward has been through all four before their resume reaches you.

Qualified

Years in the systems your post names, plus the degree or certificate it asks for.

Skilled

A timed test on sample books: a bank reconciliation and a month-end close.

Clear

A recorded call and a written answer, in plain English, that you can watch before the interview.

Checked

References and identity, done before the resume reaches you.

How hiring works

From your posting to an accounts receivable specialist at work, inside the month.

Step 1

Send us the posting

The link, or paste the task list. We sort every duty on it, line by line like the list above: what software does from day one, what needs a person, and whether anything really needs the building.

Step 2

Meet named candidates

Named accounts receivable specialists with real resumes, each already working alongside our agents and through the four checks. Interviewing is free.

Step 3

Pick one, and pick a way

Hire them onto your payroll, or take them as a dedicated person we employ. Either way the agents come set up for the software your posting names.

Step 4

First close by the 10th

Week 1 is access and procedures, week 2 is guided work against your current process, week 3 onward is full production. The first 30 days, in detail

If it goes wrong

Nothing here is hard to walk back.

A wrong hire costs you a quarter and a severance conversation. Every route below is reversible on purpose.

First month · both ways

The person is wrong for us

Try them with the agents for a month. If it does not feel right, we buy back every hour they and the agents worked.

Six months · hire

They leave or do not work out

A placement is guaranteed for six months: a replacement from our network, or the fee back as credit. Your pick.

You keep the person · hire

The software is not worth it

Then we leave and you keep the person. The hire is yours, on your payroll, directed by you.

Month to month · both ways

We want out

Your books live in your own software the whole time, so leaving is a handover, not a rescue.

Software

In your software, as it is today.

The agents connect to your accounting system with a user or key you create and can switch off. No switch required.

QuickBooks OnlineXeroOracle NetSuiteSage IntacctMicrosoft Dynamics 365Odoo
Where an accounts receivable specialist's work often starts, also connected
StripeStripePayouts matched back to the invoices, fees and refunds behind them.
ShopifyShopifyStore sales, payouts and refunds brought into the books.
ClioClioLegal bills and client trust balances brought into the books.
BuildiumBuildiumRent charged and collected, matched by unit and owner.

Your person also works in anything else you give them a login to, like your CRM and your customer portals. The agents do not connect to those; they work on what those systems export. All 15 systems the agents connect to

Accounts receivable questions

Will the reminders annoy our customers?

You set the tone and the schedule. The agents send what your person approved; anything unusual goes to the person, not to the customer.

Who decides on a payment plan or a write-off?

Your person recommends it and you decide. The agents never change what a customer owes.

Can they work in our CRM?

Your person can work in any system you give them a login to. The agents work in the accounting and payment software listed on our software page.

Can one person cover AP and AR?

Often, yes. We sort your posting first. If the agents take enough of the routine on both sides, one person can own both, and we tell you that on the first call.

What if the person is wrong for us?

Try them with the agents for a month. If it does not feel right, we buy back every hour they and the agents worked, and your other applicants are still there. After that, a placement is guaranteed for six months: a replacement from our network, or the fee back as credit against the agents fee. Your choice.

How fast can you start?

Within the month. Week 1 is access and procedures, week 2 is guided work against your current process, week 3 onward is full production. We never promise a start inside a week, because a careful handover takes longer than that.

Who is doing the work?

The person you pick, plus the people who check their work. Each one signs in with a second code on top of a password and works only inside your own software, and your data is encrypted when it moves and when it is stored.

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Candidates, in writing.

  1. Candidates for your seatNamed people with real resumes, already trained on our AI.
  2. What each would cost youFor your seat, against what the posting costs you today.
  3. What the agents takeFrom your own posting, task by task.