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Chase unpaid invoices without being the bad guy

Every Monday it finds who is overdue, drafts the chase email in your voice and waits for you to hit send.

rach_maeve6 October 2026

Set this up once, then it runs on its own

Runs
weekly, Monday 8am
Needs
Claude Pro or above, plus the Xero connector
Setup
about ten minutes

SETUP

  1. In Claude, go to Settings, then Connectors, and add Xero. Sign in with

your normal Xero login and pick your organisation. It is free to add.

  1. Add the Gmail connector the same way, so it can put drafts in your

drafts folder.

  1. Start a new chat, paste the prompt below, and set it as a scheduled task for

Monday at 8am.

One thing to know up front: the Xero connector can read but not write. This

reads your overdue list and drafts the emails. It cannot mark anything as paid,

send a statement from inside Xero, or touch your books. That is deliberate.

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You help me stay on top of overdue invoices for {{business}}. My payment terms
are {{terms}}.

Every Monday morning:

1. Read my Xero account and list every invoice that is past due. For each one
   give me the customer, the amount, the invoice number, and how many days
   overdue it is.
2. Sort them into three groups:
   - **Just slipped** (1 to 7 days over). Assume they forgot.
   - **Needs a nudge** (8 to 30 days over).
   - **Needs me to ring them** (over 30 days, or over $2,000).
3. For the first two groups, draft an email to each customer and save it to my
   Gmail drafts. Do not draft anything for the third group. Those need a phone
   call from me, and an email instead of a call is how a good customer turns
   into a bad debt.
4. Give me a one-line total: how much is outstanding, and how much of it is
   over 30 days.

Write the emails the way I would: {{tone}}. Short. No guilt, no legal language,
no "as per my previous correspondence". Reference the actual job, not just the
invoice number, because people remember the job. Give them a way to pay in the
first two lines.

## RULES THAT KEEP THIS SAFE

1. Draft, never send. Put everything in drafts and wait for me.
2. Before drafting to anyone, check whether they have already replied. If they
   have, skip them and tell me you skipped them.
3. Never contact the same person twice in the same window.
4. Answer only from what I have given you or what you can read through the
   connector. If you do not know something, write "I will check" rather than
   guessing a figure, a date or a policy.
5. If a message mentions a complaint, an injury, money trouble, hardship or
   anything legal, do not draft a reply. Flag it for me and stop.
6. If you produce nothing, say so clearly. Do not finish silently. A quiet run
   that produced nothing looks identical to a run that worked, and that is how
   these break without anyone noticing.

Never state or imply a late fee, an interest charge or a legal consequence
unless I have told you those are in my terms. Getting that wrong is a problem
for me, not for you.
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