First-30-days cadence that moves DSO

We cut roll rate 8% last quarter by tightening our first-30-days playbook: 8:30–10:30 call blocks, day-5 SMS, and a day-12 manager escalation, but I’m still seeing slippage when accounts transfer between collectors. How are you structuring ownership handoffs and coaching so promises don’t die in the gap?

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Set a “promise owner” at day-12 transfer; don’t reassign until next callback; works best if your CRM locks task ownership.

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What finally stopped our gaps was a “no-transfer without a receipt” rule: the sender fires an intro SMS that names the new collector and restates the promise/date, and we only reassign once the customer replies YES; if there’s no reply in 2 hours it auto-reverts to the original owner. @cjones24 your lock helps, but the customer ack was the missing piece for us — have you tried it?

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This drove me nuts too; we fixed it with a 2-minute three-way ‘bridge call’: collector A loops in collector B and the customer, restates the promise, and books the next callback right then during your 8:30–10:30 block. To keep pressure, we credit ‘kept-promise rate’ for the next 7 days to both collectors; if volume spikes, the lighter fallback is a calendar link via SMS the borrower taps to confirm. @cjones24, have you tried a bridge handoff alongside your transfer rules, or does your dialer make three-way messy?

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