French software is everywhere. Your finance team shouldn't be chasing US debtors at 2 a.m.

France is the ninth-largest digital exporter in the world—$204 billion a year. Cloud infrastructure, vertical SaaS, fintech, health tech, and an active startup and scale-up ecosystem. The US is a major buyer of all of it.

And French software companies face a collection problem that has nothing to do with their product: the language and the time zone are doing the debtor's work for them.

The 2 a.m. problem

A Paris finance team trying to reach a California customer at 3 p.m. local time is calling around midnight in Paris—if the call happens at all. The emails may be in English, but the follow-up still crosses a nine-hour time difference and a US entity structure the Paris team may not know. The debtor, meanwhile, has learned that the vendor's escalation never actually lands. The invoice ages in dollars while the two time zones never overlap.

A US debtor may not expect a French vendor to escalate locally—and until a collector shows up on their clock with the file, "we're reviewing it" costs them nothing.

What we do for French software companies

• US-hours, US-language, US-culture collection. The debtor gets calls they can answer, from a number they recognize as serious.
• Multilingual negotiators. When it helps, we negotiate in French with the debtor's European parent or their Paris office; when it helps, we work the US entity directly. The debtor never gets to hide behind a language barrier.
• The French file is a strong file. Signed orders, acceptance records, usage logs, and payment emails are the audit trail we use to build the demand.
• Same contingency worldwide. 25% under 12 months, 33% over, 40% on second placements—no recovery, no fee.

The short version

Your software crossed the Atlantic. Your collections should too—with someone on the US side who does the 2 a.m. work so your finance team doesn't have to. Our international desk runs local agents in 15+ countries with one point of contact on your side. Send the file; we'll handle the hours.