There is a payment service also called u-collect offered by United Bank of Africa and a debt collection service in South Africa. We are not affiliated with either of these organisations. One of these may be what you are looking for.
Xero is a great tool for managing your business and sending invoices to your client. But you still rely on your clients to pay your invoices – and if they don’t feel like it, you just have to wait. You can set up payment services that your clients can click to straight from your invoice, but they still have to take the initiative and decide to pay.
If you wanted to allow automated credit card, direct debit/ACH payments triggered by your Xero invoices – you were out of luck. Until Now. uCollect collects YOUR money straight from your client’s credit card or bank account (with their prior agreement and through a third party payment processor) based on the due date on your invoice in Xero. It’s cheap, quick and easy.
All you need is your Xero ledger, an approved Payment Gateway (click here for more details) and uCollect can be up and running in minutes – putting you completely in charge of your cash flow. And it’s completely safe – uCollect never touches your money! We simply act as the middle-man between you and your payment processor saving you time and stress.
Connect your uCollect account to your Xero Ledger
Connect your uCollect account to your approved payment gateway
Tell uCollect what clients to collect payments from
Now you just sit back and relax! Every day we log into your Xero ledger and see if there are any invoices due for collection for the contacts you have authorised. If there are we send the collection request straight to the payment processor via a secure internet connection. If the payment processor does not allow a direct connection then there are a few extra steps. It’s all pretty effortless!
