Average Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) across roughly 45,000 companies now stands at approximately 59 days, the steepest single-year increase since the 2008 financial crisis, against a healthy B2B benchmark closer to 45 days, according to figures cited by Kapittx, an AI-powered invoice-to-cash platform.
Kapittx's analysis attributes this gap to a structural limitation in how NetSuite handles accounts receivable: the platform is designed to record receivables, not to actively collect them. NetSuite's native dunning capability is capped at 15 levels and roughly 100 letters per batch, and cannot detect bounced emails. Cash application remains largely manual for complex, multi-invoice, or partial payments, and AR reporting within NetSuite is descriptive rather than predictive, showing what has already happened rather than which invoices are likely to pay late.
Separately cited research reinforces the scale of the issue: J.P. Morgan has estimated more than $700 billion in working capital trapped across the S&P 1500, with roughly two-thirds of companies reporting a longer DSO year over year, while the Hackett Group has found receivables performance deteriorating for two consecutive years.
Kapittx frames the financial impact directly: working capital trapped in receivables equals annual revenue divided by 365, multiplied by DSO. For a company with $30 million in annual revenue, a 15-day DSO reduction releases approximately $1.2 million in cash already owed to the business; at $100 million in revenue, the same reduction releases approximately $4.1 million.
Kapittx operates as an AI-native accounts receivable layer connecting to NetSuite through secure APIs, synchronizing invoice, payment, and customer data in real time without replacing the ERP. The platform applies five levers to reduce DSO: risk- and value-based prioritization of collections worklists, automated and personalized multi-channel follow-up cadences, AI-driven cash application across bank statements and lockbox files, structured dispute logging and routing, and reduced payment friction through customer self-service.
Enterprises deploying Kapittx on top of NetSuite report a 20 to 30 percent reduction in DSO, with independent research cited by Kapittx showing the most heavily automated teams approaching a 40 percent improvement and up to an 80 percent reduction in time spent chasing cash. Kapittx also reports that automating collections frees 30 to 40 percent of a finance team's capacity, with an approximately threefold improvement in collections productivity.
Kapittx's platform is backed by SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, and ISO 27001 certification.