Chaser is a capable receivables platform. It is also priced for a finance department. The entry Compact plan starts at £199/month (about $259 USD), caps you at four users, and is gated by your annual revenue; Core is £599/month and Complete £899/month, with roughly 10% off for annual billing. Its managed service, Chaser Care, is a further £324/month. All verified at chaserhq.com/pricing on 24 July 2026.
For an agency where the person chasing the invoice is also the person on the account, that is a lot of platform — and a lot of money — for a job that is mostly writing good follow-up emails on time. Here are the five alternatives worth a real look, with today's prices and what the switch actually costs you.
Short version: FetchDue if the chase has to sound like you wrote it and you want a human approving every send. Chasivo if you want the cheapest AI drafting and nothing else. Paidnice if you live in Xero or QuickBooks and want the mechanics automated. InvoiceSherpa if you want a flat, uncomplicated reminder tool. Upflow if you are past $10M ARR and buying a finance system. Details below.
Why agencies leave Chaser
Four things come up over and over, and three of them are on the pricing page:
- Revenue tiers. Your bill is set by how big your company is, not by how much of the product you use. Grow, and the same feature set costs more.
- The four-user cap on Compact. The cheapest plan is also the one that limits who can see the receivables book. For a small agency that is usually the wrong constraint.
- Credit control you will not use. Commercial credit checking, receivables forecasting, and a reporting suite are real value to a credit controller vetting new trade customers. Most agencies already know their clients.
- The reply is still the work. Scheduling a sequence is the easy part. The time sink is reading "can we split this?" and writing back well.
1. FetchDue — best for agencies specifically
Price: $29/month flat (Pro). Free tier for tracking invoices by hand. Firm console $149/month. 14-day trial, no card.
FetchDue is an agent rather than a scheduler. It drafts each chase in your voice and sends from your own mailbox, so the client reads a note from you rather than a notice from a platform. It reads every reply and acts on what the client actually said — a request to split the invoice becomes a drafted installment plan, a promise to pay is tracked against its date and followed up if it slips, anything sensitive is handed back to you. You approve every message before it leaves.
It syncs invoices from QuickBooks, Xero and Stripe and writes the chase history back, and it applies your late-fee policy clamped to the client's US state ceiling. The price is flat: $29/month does not move when your agency grows, and there are no revenue bands or per-invoice metering. The trade-off is scope — no credit checking, no receivables forecasting, and it is built for agencies rather than horizontal finance teams. Head-to-head: FetchDue vs Chaser.
Best for: agencies where the person chasing is the person on the account.
2. Chasivo — cheapest AI drafting
Price: Free (3 customers, 10 invoices). Solo $19/month ($15 annual), Pro $39/month ($31), Business $69/month ($55, up to 5 members). Verified at chasivo.com/pricing, 24 July 2026.
The newest name here and the lowest paid price. Solo is $19/month for unlimited customers and invoices, with AI follow-up drafts, customer risk scoring, sending through Gmail or Outlook, and a 30-day predictive inflow view. Pro adds 90-day forecasting and scenario modelling; Business adds per-member tone profiles and a shared inbox.
If your requirement is "write my follow-ups for me, cheaply," Chasivo is the value pick and genuinely undercuts everything else on this list. What its plans advertise is drafting, scoring and forecasting — the outbound half. Reading the reply, negotiating the plan, and tracking what was promised are still yours.
Best for: solo operators and small studios who want AI-written chases at the lowest possible price.
3. Paidnice — accounting-native, if you watch the volume ladder
Price: Essentials $69/month (150 invoices, 600 emails, 2 users). Pro is tiered by volume: $99 up to 300 invoices, $179 up to 600, $279 up to 1,000, $489 up to 2,000, $649 up to 3,000, $799 up to 4,000. Custom from $999. Add $29/month per extra entity and $0.10 per SMS. Verified at paidnice.com/pricing, 24 July 2026.
Paidnice is usually quoted as "from $69/month," which is true and misleading. The full ladder is the number that matters: an agency running 600 invoices a month is on the $179 tier, not the $69 one, and a second entity is another $29. It is worth it if you want the mechanics — automated statements, late fees, discounts, payment plans, a customer portal — running natively on top of Xero, QuickBooks Online or Stripe at volume.
Like Chaser, it is a horizontal A/R tool. It automates receivables policy; it does not try to sound like you. Head-to-head: FetchDue vs Paidnice, or the three-way read in Chaser vs Paidnice vs FetchDue.
Best for: businesses running high invoice volume through Xero or QuickBooks.
4. InvoiceSherpa — flat reminder tool with a transaction fee
Price: $49/month up to 100 open invoices, $99/month for 101–500, $199/month unlimited ($41 / $83 / $166 billed annually). Plus a 1% transaction fee on all invoices paid. Verified at invoicesherpa.com/pricing, 24 July 2026.
Straightforward and cheaper than Chaser: unlimited reminders, custom scripting and scheduling, SMS reminders, a branded customer portal, unlimited users, and accounting and payment integrations on every tier. Tiering is by open invoices rather than revenue, which is a fairer axis than Chaser's.
Read the last line of the pricing page before you compare, though: there is a 1% fee on every invoice paid. On $80,000 of monthly billing that is $800 — several times the subscription, and more than any other tool on this list charges in total.
Best for: teams that want a plain, unlimited reminder tool and whose invoice values are small enough that 1% does not bite.
5. Upflow — for finance teams past $10M ARR
Price: not published. A free "Discover" analytics tier, then Grow ($0–$10M ARR), Scale ($10M–$50M) and Strategic ($50M+), all behind "let's talk". Verified at upflow.io/pricing, 24 July 2026.
Upflow segments by your ARR and puts every paid tier behind a sales conversation, which tells you who it is for. If you are standing up a receivables function with a controller to run it, it belongs on the shortlist. If you are an agency owner who wants overdue invoices chased this week, a demo booking is the wrong first step.
Best for: venture-scale companies building a formal A/R practice.
What switching actually involves
Moving off Chaser is easier than most software migrations, because the source of truth is not in Chaser:
- Your invoices live in your accounting system, not the chasing tool. Every option here connects to QuickBooks Online, Xero or Stripe and pulls the open book, so there is no invoice export or import to manage.
- Templates and sequences are the real migration. Copy your best-performing follow-up wording out before you cancel. If you move to a tool that drafts for you, this becomes a one-time tone setup instead.
- Historical chase history stays behind. Export whatever reporting you need for the year first; it does not travel between vendors.
- Run in parallel for one billing cycle. Point the new tool at your open invoices while Chaser is still live, compare what each would send for a week, and only then turn the old sequences off.
- Reconnect the payment link. Whatever "pay now" destination your reminders point at needs re-pointing, and it is the one step that silently breaks collection if you skip it.
Budget an afternoon, not a project.
Quick comparison
- FetchDue — for agencies · $29/mo flat, no tiers · drafts in your voice from your own mailbox, reads replies, you approve every send
- Chasivo — cheapest AI drafts · from $19/mo · AI follow-ups, risk scores, Gmail/Outlook sending
- Paidnice — accounting-native at volume · $69 → $799/mo by invoice count, +$29/entity · Xero/QuickBooks late fees, statements, portal
- InvoiceSherpa — flat reminder tool · $49–$199/mo · unlimited reminders, but 1% of every invoice paid
- Upflow — venture-scale finance · pricing on request · ARR-tiered, sales-led
- Chaser (what you're leaving) — credit control · from £199/mo (~$259), revenue-gated, 4 users on entry · credit checking, phone escalation
How to choose
Work down from the constraint that actually binds you. If the follow-up has to sound like it came from the account lead, you want the tool that writes in your voice and lets you approve each send — start with FetchDue at $29/month. If price is the only variable, Chasivo at $19 is the floor. If you are pushing hundreds of invoices a month through Xero or QuickBooks, price Paidnice at your real volume — not at $69 — and compare. If you want unlimited reminders at a flat fee, InvoiceSherpa works as long as you do the 1% arithmetic first. And if you are building a finance function rather than fixing a Friday-afternoon chore, take the Upflow call.
Chasing invoices at an agency is not a credit control problem. It is a writing-and-remembering problem, and it should be priced like one.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best Chaser alternative for a small agency? FetchDue, if the chase needs to read like you wrote it — it is $29/month flat, sends from your own mailbox, and you approve every message. Chasivo is cheaper at $19/month if you only need the drafting. Both prices verified 24 July 2026.
How much does Chaser actually cost? Compact starts at £199/month (about $259 USD) for up to four users and is gated by your annual revenue; Core is £599/month and Complete £899/month, with about 10% off annual billing. The Chaser Care managed service is a further £324/month. Verified at chaserhq.com/pricing, 24 July 2026.
Is there a free Chaser alternative? Partly. Chasivo has a free plan capped at 3 customers and 10 invoices, FetchDue has a free tier for tracking invoices by hand, and Upflow's Discover tier is analytics only. Every plan that actually chases for you is paid.
Will I lose my chase history if I switch? Yes — follow-up history does not transfer between vendors, so export any reporting you need before you cancel. Your invoices themselves are safe: they live in QuickBooks, Xero or Stripe, and the new tool re-syncs them from there.
Want the wider field rather than just Chaser's replacements? Read the best invoice chasing software for agencies, or the platform-specific roundups for QuickBooks and Xero.