I run into the same problem every founder with recurring or invoice-based revenue eventually hits: Stripe will happily tell you an invoice is overdue, but it won't do anything about it. That's on you. So you end up either manually emailing people to pay up, or — more realistically — forgetting to, because you're busy building the actual product.
I got tired of being my own collections department, so I built CollectionsCopilot.
It connects to your Stripe account, watches for overdue invoices, and drafts a reminder email automatically. You review it before it sends (or once you trust the drafts, let it send on its own for the first follow-up stage). No more manually tracking who owes what and when to nudge them.
Where it's at right now:
Built and shipped solo. It's live, I'm running my own invoices through it, and I just found and fixed a checkout bug this week that was blocking paid signups — which is a very "solo dev energy" kind of launch week.
No real traction yet, which is the part nobody puts in the highlight reel, but the pipeline works end-to-end: overdue invoice → draft → review → automated send.
What I'd love from this community:
If you invoice clients through Stripe and have ever let a late payment slide because you forgot to follow up, I'd genuinely appreciate you kicking the tires and telling me what's missing. Brutal feedback welcome — that's how this gets better.
The “forgetting to follow up” problem feels more important than the email automation itself.
Curious whether early users see this as a standalone collections problem, or more as one missing piece of a broader Stripe billing workflow.
I’d be happy to share some feedback. What’s the best email to reach you on?