AR Automation Software in India: Collections and Recovery, Off the Spreadsheet
Allocate accounts, log every visit and call with location, never miss a follow-up, approve every receipt and see the position live. Built for corporates, SMEs, banks, NBFCs and collection agencies.
- 45-day pilot with one team
- Excel or API upload, ERP-agnostic
- GPS on every field entry
What AR Automation (ARIQ) is
ARIQ is the receivables and recovery platform of Cresolv One. It takes collections out of spreadsheets and emails and puts them on one connected system: a web portal for the office, a mobile app for people in the field, and one secure cloud database behind both.
Excel stays useful as an input. Portfolios and contact details are uploaded in standard Excel formats, and ARIQ manages the work from there, from allocation through visits, follow-ups and receipts to reporting.
ARIQ is offered as a portal and as a service. It is built for organisations that manage collections through other people: banks and NBFCs that oversee collection agencies, agencies that run collectors, telecallers and legal work, and corporates with their own collection teams.
Who uses ARIQ, and how
The same platform serves three kinds of organisation. What changes is who is being watched, and by whom.
| Who you are | What you track in ARIQ |
|---|
| Bank or NBFC | Your collection agencies. You see which agency holds which accounts, the work done on them, promises to pay and receipts, and how each agency is performing, without waiting for their spreadsheets. |
| Collection agency | Your collectors, telecallers and legal work. You allocate accounts, see each person's calls, visits and follow-ups, and manage notices and hearings alongside collection. |
| Corporate | Your own collection department. Overdue customer invoices become accounts, and the department's work, work steps, collection strategy and tasks are set up around your process and operations. |
If you are comparing options, our AR and collections automation buyer's guide sets out what to ask any vendor, and three levers to cut DSO covers the process side for teams that bill on credit. To see which of these fits you, describe your team in the enquiry form.
Why collections still run on Excel
Allocation lists, visit updates, promise-to-pay dates and receipts move between staff, agencies and advocates as spreadsheets and emails. Managers see the position days late, and cash flow suffers.
- No single live view: each branch, agency and advocate keeps its own sheet, and consolidation takes days.
- No proof of field work: visits and calls are self-reported, with no location or time stamp.
- Missed follow-ups: promise-to-pay dates sit in cells nobody is reminded about.
- Late reconciliation: cash collected in the field reaches the books only after manual checking.
- Weak control: files are emailed, overwritten and shared without access control.
How an account moves through ARIQ
- Upload: accounts and contacts from Excel or API.
- Allocate: to staff, agency, telecaller or advocate.
- Act: a visit or call is logged on the app with location.
- Follow up: next step, promise-to-pay date and reminders.
- Receipt: the collection is entered and approved by operations.
- Report: live dashboards and MIS for every level.
Each step leaves a record stamped with user, date, time and location, so anyone can open an account and see exactly what happened.
Upload and allocation
Portfolios and borrower or customer contact details come in by Excel upload or by API from your ERP, core banking or loan system. Service types are configurable to your collection need, with tasks mapped to each service type.
- Allocate by state, unit, work group, agency, collector or advocate, one at a time or in bulk.
- A duplicate check flags accounts that are already allocated.
- Reassign or close allocations as a case moves between teams.
- Active and inactive assignment views for each user.
Work steps built around your process
Every recovery process is different, so the work steps are yours to define. Staff choose from your lists on every entry, which keeps updates consistent and reportable.
| Stage | Example steps |
|---|
| Collection | Tele-call, field visit, promise to pay, part payment, WhatsApp follow-up, email, paid or closed |
| Legal | Demand notice, documents, case filing, hearing follow-up, settlement |
Example configuration. Step names, order and due dates are set by each organisation.
Work groups, work types, descriptions and next steps can be set up per product and service, with frequency and due dates.
Want to see your own recovery steps configured?We set up the demo with your work types and stages.
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Managing the process and the collection strategy
Collecting well is mostly about managing how the work is done. In ARIQ the process is set up once, around your operations, and then everyone follows it.
- Service types are configured to your collection need, with tasks mapped to each service type.
- Work groups, work types, descriptions and next steps are set per product and service, with frequency and due dates.
- Accounts are allocated by state, unit, work group, agency, collector or advocate, and can be reassigned as a case moves.
- A client can be moved from one PMO to another, with the change recorded.
- Every entry needs a next follow-up date, and receipts need approval before they count.
The collection strategy is yours to define. A corporate might run a reminder-led path for key customers and a field and legal path for the rest, while a bank or NBFC sets one process for its agencies. The tasks and steps follow whichever strategy you choose, and managers see whether the work is actually being done.
Illustrative example. Strategy, steps and tasks are configured to each organisation's process and operations.
Field work in the collector's pocket
The Android app shows each user only their allocated accounts. It is built for the working day rather than for the office.
- Today's tasks: a searchable list filtered by unit, with dues and last update.
- Work entry: work type, description, next step, follow-up date and response.
- Work plan and reminders: planned visits and due follow-ups for the day.
- Customer details: contacts, invoice list and account history.
- Attendance: marked from the app, with location.
Every visit recorded with where and when
The app reads the GPS position and the street address when a visit or call is saved. With the user's permission, location can also be tracked during working hours.
Supervisors get daily work and visit reports per collector, for any date range, in list and map view, plus an attendance report for staff and agency agents. Field work stops being self-reported and becomes something a manager can check.
Follow-ups that cannot be skipped
Every call and visit is stored with its response, next step and next follow-up date. The follow-up date is mandatory, so no account goes quiet.
Promise-to-pay count and value are tracked for each collector and manager. Supervisors see a daily task entry report and today's follow-ups. Each account carries a complete timeline, so a new collector can pick up where the last one stopped.
Receipts verified before they count
Collectors enter receipts in the field. Operations approve or reject them against bank and payment type, and a collection counts only after approval. Pending, approved and rejected receipts show on the operations dashboard, so the cash position is visible the same day instead of after a month-end clean-up.
Curious how long cash takes to reach your books?A pilot shows it on your own portfolio.
Scope a Pilot
Roles and dashboards: who sees what
Every user signs in to a dashboard for their role and sees only their own slice of the data. Figures update as entries are saved, and they roll up from collector to PMO to operations to management.
| Role | Who | What they see |
|---|
| Management | Administrator, CEO or director | Portfolio position, recovery trend, top exposures and team scorecards across all clients and PMOs |
| Operations | Operations head, moderator, finance and billing | Approvals, requests, allocations, receipts and field activity |
| PMO | Project manager for a client | Their own client portfolio and their own collectors |
| Collector | Field collector, partner or vendor | Their own accounts, plan, visits and receipts |
| Telecaller | Calling team | Their own call worklist and work status |
| Client | Client or creditor, and client query support | Only their own portfolio, with queries and disputes |
Agencies, advocates and documents
Collection agencies work inside your system instead of in their own sheets. They are onboarded with their users and roles, see only the accounts allocated to them and their agents, and are measured on a scorecard of accounts placed, collected, pending and recovery percentage.
Legal teams and in-house or empanelled advocates work on the same platform. Notice, documentation, filing and hearing steps are defined for your legal process, and visits for notice service are logged with GPS. Documents and photos attach to the account file, and the account shows which are received and which are pending.
Security and control
No installation is needed for office users, and staff, agencies and advocates connect from the browser or the app.
- Role-based access, checked on the server for every page.
- Data scoped by user, so each person sees only allocated accounts.
- Company-level login before user sign-in.
- Audit trail on every entry, with user, date, time and location.
- Maker-checker approval on receipts.
- Cloud hosted, with deployment agreed per client need.
ARIQ is ERP-agnostic. Roles, users, work steps, service types and views are configured per client during scoping, and the integration method is agreed with you. You can start from Excel and add API integration as you grow. Typical implementation takes about four weeks, depending on the number of roles, work steps and the integration method.
A 45-day pilot with one team
A pilot runs for about 45 days with one team, region or portfolio. We configure roles and work steps, load your current portfolio from Excel, onboard a small group of staff, agencies or advocates, and compare the results with how you track recovery today.
Pilot results are indicative of what your own portfolio will show, and we do not quote outcome figures before testing.