How long does a finished job wait to bill?
Three inputs from your own operation. A working-capital figure for the ticket-to-invoice gap. No email required.
What you get
4 things that decide this
- 01A monthly figure for the cash sitting between completed work and issued invoices.
- 02A days-saved view: what each day cut from ticket-to-invoice frees up.
- 03It will not fix your DSO. It shows what the paper leg of it is worth.
- 04If tickets already flow same-day, the number will be small. Then billing is not your bottleneck.
How it works
The Ticket-to-Cash Calculator takes three inputs: jobs per month, average days from field ticket to invoice, and your typical invoice value band. All three are yours to enter. Enverus documents the pattern behind the lag: paper tickets ride in trucks, wait for approval, and sometimes never arrive.
The output is one sentence built from your numbers: roughly how much working capital each day of ticket lag holds, and what cutting that lag frees per month. No industry benchmark is invented on your behalf.
The lag also hides disputes. A ticket that surfaces late is harder to defend when the operator questions it. The calculator counts the cash. The audit counts the rest.
- Job doneTicket written in the field
- In the truckDays pass before it lands
- ApprovalSigned, corrected, re-sent
- InvoiceBilling finally starts
DSO clocks start at the invoice. The days before it are the part you control.
Trace one job from ticket to cash
An engineer maps each handoff and names the slow one. The call is free and the map is yours.
Questions, answered
01We use an operator portal for invoicing. Does this still apply?+
Often, yes. The portal starts working when your data reaches it. The lag usually lives upstream, between the field ticket and the person who keys the invoice.
02Why no default for ticket lag?+
Because the honest range is wide and yours is knowable. Pull five recent jobs, count the days from ticket to invoice, and enter the average.
03Is anything stored?+
No. No email, no saved data. The number is for you.
