DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) measures the average number of days a company takes to collect payment after making a sale. A DSO of 45 means customers pay, on average, 45 days after being invoiced. It is one of the most watched treasury KPIs, because it links directly to how much cash is tied up in receivables.
A rising DSO is an early warning: customers paying slower, collection processes slipping, or disputes piling up. Finance leaders track it monthly, because a few days of DSO across a large receivables book can mean a significant swing in available cash.
The catch is that DSO is only as honest as the data feeding it. If payments are not promptly applied to the right invoices, if credit notes are missing, or if bank receipts sit unreconciled, the reported DSO is wrong, and decisions based on it are too.
Phacet keeps that underlying data clean. The agent that reconciles bank transactions and detects unmatched flows applies incoming payments to the correct invoices, the agent that checks ERP, CRM, and billing consistency keeps the receivables base coherent, and the agent that rebuilds ARR from invoices reconstructs a reliable billing view. Every step is traceable through a native audit trail.
DSO tells you how fast you get paid. Phacet makes sure the number reflects reality, not unreconciled noise, a foundation for finance leadership steering cash.
