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Payment Follow-up Management
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Payment Follow-up Management

Chase overdue invoices with multi-level email, SMS and activity reminders that run on autopilot

v1.1 Abdelfatah Mohammad (AlshayebCo) Accounting & Finance

Customized fork of the enterprise account_followup app (depends account, mail, sms, account_followup; auto_install). Inherits account_followup.followup line, account followup report, ir.actions.report, journal item and contact, relying on the upstream module for the underlying fields/computations while overriding the UI and report layer. Adds a contact open_action_followup method opening a custom customer-statements form, list/search/action views for follow-up reports, a follow-up-levels configuration view, a journal-dashboard kanban xpath, and a QWeb-PDF follow-up letter report. Security ships a multi-company ir.rule on the follow-up line model and an SMS-template ir.rule for account managers (no custom ir.model.access.csv).

Overview

Late-paying customers tie up cash and force accountants into manual chasing. This module gives the accounting team a single follow-up workspace: it ranks customers by how urgently they need contact, drives them through staged reminder levels (each with its own delay, email, SMS and scheduled activity), and produces a printable follow-up letter with the pending invoices attached. Reminders can run automatically per the configured policy or be triggered manually per customer, and everything is multi-company aware.

Workflow

Res Partner

In need of action
With overdue invoices
No action needed

Key Features

  • Dedicated 'Follow-up Reports' list showing every customer with their follow-up status, responsible person, next reminder date and total due/overdue amounts.
  • Configurable multi-level follow-up steps, each with its own days-after-due delay, email template, SMS template and optional scheduled activity.
  • Per-customer follow-up form with a clickable level statusbar, unpaid invoice lines, total due/overdue summary and one-click follow-up action.
  • Color-coded follow-up status (in need of action, with overdue invoices, no action needed) with on-screen ribbons for at-a-glance triage.
  • Choice of automatic or manual reminder mode per customer, with a named follow-up responsible who owns the chasing activities.
  • Printable follow-up letter as a PDF that lists pending invoices and can bundle the original invoice PDFs into one document.
  • Stat button on the contact form showing total amount due that jumps straight to that customer's overdue-payments view.
  • Quick 'Follow-up reports' shortcut surfaced on the Accounting journal dashboard for sales journals.
  • Multi-company record rules so each company only sees its own follow-up levels, plus SMS-template management for account managers.

Technical Details

Technical Name ac_account_followup
Version 1.1
License OEEL-1
Domain ACC · Accounting & Finance

Menu Structure

Follow-up Reports
Follow-up Levels

Security

Access is gated through standard Accounting privileges: invoicing users can view and act on follow-up reports, while only accounting managers can define follow-up levels. A multi-company record rule restricts each company to its own follow-up steps, and a dedicated rule lets account managers manage the SMS templates used for partner reminders.

Billing / Invoicing user (account.group_account_invoice) — view and run customer follow-ups Accounting Manager (account.group_account_manager) — configure follow-up levels and manage partner SMS templates

Dependencies

account mail sms account_followup