Where receivables go to die
Between the day a buyer sends a purchase order and the day the money actually lands, a receivable passes through several hands and several documents. Purchase order, dispatch, invoice, acknowledgement, due date, payment. Each handoff is a place the trail can go cold.
The bills that get paid late are rarely the ones anyone decided to ignore. They are the ones that fell into a gap — invoiced but never chased, delivered but never invoiced, agreed but never written down. Nobody chose to lose the money; the process simply had nowhere to keep looking.
Following the chain
Lekha follows a receivable down the purchase-order-to-payment chain rather than treating it as a single line that is either paid or not. The bill has a history — where it started, where it is now, how long it has been sitting — and that history is what lets you act before it ages past help.
This is the difference between a list and a chain. A list tells you a buyer owes you money. A chain tells you where in the journey the money got stuck, which is the only thing that tells you what to do next — send the invoice, confirm the acknowledgement, or make the call.
The clock that runs alongside
As each receivable moves, Lekha ages it against a 45-day MSME clock, flagging the ones that have gone overdue. The chain tells you where the bill is; the clock tells you how urgent it has become. Together they turn a vague sense that some buyers are slow into a specific, chaseable list.
None of this replaces the judgement of running the business — which buyer to press, which to give room. Lekha records and tracks; the decisions stay yours. What it removes is the excuse that you did not know a bill was slipping, because now something is watching the whole chain.