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# Collections & Chargebacks for Pest & Wildlife Control

> Track every customer who still owes you money, from unpaid invoices to lost card chargebacks. Record calls, promises, payment plans, and settlements in one case.

## Overview
Track every customer who still owes you money, from unpaid invoices to lost card chargebacks. Record calls, promises, payment plans, and settlements in one case.

## Key outcome
Get paid for the work you already did.

## What you can do
- Work unpaid bills as collection cases
- Match card chargebacks to the right customer
- Set up promises, payment plans, and settlements

## Explore the capabilities
### Collection cases
- Open a case for an overdue invoice or a lost card chargeback.
- Keep a contact log of every call, text, email, and letter on the case.
- See what is outstanding, recovered, and written off at a glance.

### Promises, plans & settlements
- Record a customer’s promise to pay by a date.
- Set up a payment plan with a schedule that adds up to the exact balance.
- Offer a settlement and record the forgiven difference as written off, not as money collected.

### Chargeback ledger
- Import or sync card disputes from your payment processor.
- Match a dispute to a payment only by the processor’s exact payment ID, with suggestions for a person to confirm.
- Flag a likely double charge so you do not chase money the customer never owed.

## Settings and choices
- Open cases yourself, or let the daily check open them for invoices that are well past due.
- Decide whether a lost chargeback opens a case, and when to escalate to an agency or legal.

## From start to finish
1. A bill goes unpaid or a card dispute is lost.
2. Work the case: log contact, record a promise, or set up a plan.
3. Close it as recovered, settled, or written off with the history kept.

## More ways to use it
- A customer agrees to pay $600 over three months. Set the plan and watch each installment.
- A dispute shows the customer was charged twice for one invoice. Leave it as a refund question instead of opening a debt.

## Feature questions
### Is money recovered entered by hand?
No. Recovery is counted from payments actually applied to the invoice after the case opened.

### Does WildPipe guess which payment a chargeback belongs to?
No. Automatic links need an exact processor payment ID or a strong customer match. Anything less stays a suggestion for a person to confirm.

## Here’s an example
A customer disputes a card charge months after the job. Match the chargeback to the job, see whether it was a double charge, and open a case only if money is really owed.

## Learn more
- [All capabilities](https://wildpipe.com/features)
- [Pricing](https://wildpipe.com/pricing)
- [Contact](https://wildpipe.com/contact)
