Paid Right NZ
Paid Right Capability Intensive
Build the Infrastructure That Gets You Paid in Full Faster.
Protect the bottom line. Reduce unnecessary commercial exposure. Strengthen the business for the future.
$827 million
The cost of late payment to New Zealand small business in 2023, up 81% from $456 million two years earlier. Xero.
What would it mean for your business if all the money sitting ‘out there’ was in your pocket instead?
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Training registered with the Regional Business Partner Network. Mel and the team have worked with over 350 New Zealand businesses.
Intentional focus on the infrastructure that impacts how money moves into and through your business, giving you greater access to your earned revenue, faster.
In business it is necessary to be heavily focused on the front end. Building the team, filling the pipeline, keeping people busy, delivering the work, making sure projects keep moving.
The Capability Intensive is the time and space to do exactly that - credit control, cash flow and commercial risk, treated as strategy rather than admin.
Risk enters a job long before an invoice does. 80% of getting paid on time happens before you start the job, in the quote, the go-ahead, the deposit and the variation nobody wrote down. Which is why it is a strategic exercise rather than a policy you download. That is the shift from reactive to intentional. Discipline beats hope. Structure protects margin.
Because the gap between where a business is now and where it could be is not a gap in capability. It is a gap in infrastructure, and infrastructure can be built.
Winning work is a skill. Getting paid for it, fully, reliably, every time, is a system.
Most blue-collar businesses have mastered the first and never built the second. And it matters more as a business grows, not less. More sales without the right payment structure can simply mean more exposure, and more growth can mean more risk if the infrastructure is not strong enough to support it.
Building capability around the whole transaction.
The capability sits in the decisions, disciplines and controls around the work - not in any single tool.
Who else needs to be in it?
That depends on how your business makes decisions.
You and your business.
A deep dive on your business, with your own people and nothing else in the room. Plenty of owners choose it for that alone: the focused time, shaped entirely around what is actually in front of them.
More than one decision-maker.
Where there is more than one director, or people holding different core decision-making roles, they all need to be in it: the strategy, the structures, the decisions themselves, and how those get implemented. A decision that needs three people in the room cannot be made by one of them and explained afterwards.
What we work through together.
We meet face to face and online, over six key learning blocks, built to draw out what is really going on in your business rather than only to deliver information.
WORK COMPLETED IS NOT THE SAME AS MONEY BACK IN THE BUSINESS.
Busy is not the same as building wealth. Revenue is not the same as cash. And that gap, between the work being done and the money coming back from it, is where a huge amount of wealth is quietly lost, delayed, diluted or simply left sitting in someone else’s account.
It is measurable, on your own numbers.
At sixty-day terms, a business turning over $500,000 has roughly $82,000 of its own earned money sitting outside it. At $1 million it is about $164,000. At $2 million, over $328,000.
Bring that money forward by thirty days and the $500,000 business releases about $41,000, the $1 million business about $82,000, and the $2 million business about $164,000.
This is not new revenue and it is not magic money. It is money the business has already earned, currently sitting in the gap between doing the work and getting paid. Infrastructure changes how soon it becomes usable.
If every invoice you are owed today was paid into your account tomorrow, what would you do with it?
Nobody answers that in the abstract. It is the next vehicle. Replacing something in the fleet. The equipment that has been on the list for two years, or the person you have been meaning to employ. The only question is when you get to use it.
What that has looked like.
This one was a business that was doing well.
A heavy diesel and mechanical workshop. The owner had stepped back from the tools to grow the business, and every invoice, every dispute and every conversation that needed his authority still ran through him. By the time we started, roughly $425,000 was sitting overdue, and it was affecting his sleep.
So we did not start with collections. We traced the money, then made weeks of deliberate, unglamorous decisions: tightening terms before work started, checks that catch risk early, deposits where the exposure was highest, and invoicing on a weekly rhythm.
$425,000 outstanding, down to under $50,000 by September 2026, with one complex account still being resolved.
Ask him what actually changed and the number is not what he talks about first. He had been “giving away agency without realising it.”
Risk is seen earlier. Expectations are clearer. Money moves with less friction.
What is different afterwards.
The infrastructure was doing the work by then, and what he recorded was that he was leading rather than reacting: able to see and direct how money moves through his own business, instead of finding out where he stood after the fact.
Decisions get clarified, documented and turned into something your team can use, so the capability stays inside your business when the work is finished. Everyone knows what to say, what to do and when, and it runs the same way every time, whoever is on the job.
And when money comes back earlier, more consistently and with less fight, something shifts beyond the bank balance.
Less reliance on the overdraft.
Less pressure on owner drawings.
Better supplier confidence and cleaner tax planning.
More ability to make a hiring decision, more confidence to invest, and equipment decisions made from strength rather than necessity.
More room to grow without it being reckless.
Because when you protect your revenue, you protect your team. Your family. Your industry.
That is what a cash-rich blue-collar business actually is: the money it has already earned inside it, working. And wealth is not only financial. It is sleeping better, deciding earlier, saying no to unsafe work, planning from strength.
Protect your profit. Fuel your growth.
Your Investment.
$9,995 + GST
Payment plans are available. Paid Right programmes are registered services within the Regional Business Partner Network, and up to 50% RBP funding support may be available if your business qualifies. Eligibility criteria apply.
Is this worth it for a business like ours?
We already have finance systems.
They are good at recording what has already happened. A finance system is not a strategy for getting paid. It will not tell you where risk entered a job, which customer to check before you quote, or which decision quietly gave away your position three weeks ago.
We have not had a big failure yet.
Plenty of good businesses have not, and it is worth knowing whether that is the systems or the run of customers. The cost of one bad debt, one liquidation or one weak structure is always greater than the cost of building it properly.
We are too busy with projects.
Everybody is, and the pressure is exactly what makes this hard to get to. It is also the argument for doing it deliberately rather than in the gaps: a few focused days saves months of firefighting, and the firefighting is already taking the time.
We trust our clients.
Good, and most of them will deserve it. Trust is great, and contracts, terms and secured credit are what protect it when something changes that neither of you chose - an ownership change, a head contractor going under, a person you dealt with for years leaving.
What it is like to work with us.
Some people want the same work alongside other owners and leaders rather than inside their own business. That is the Paid Right Accelerator, and it is a different experience rather than a smaller or larger version of this one.
When you are ready.
You have read the whole thing, which usually means most of the deciding is already done. What is left is your own numbers and your own people, and that is a conversation.
Talk to us about your business
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