Business Overview
ProTec Environmental Consultants has been helping organizations navigate environmental liability since their founding over 26 years ago. Led by President Leslie Strohm, ProTec specializes in environmental assessments, remedial investigations, and hazardous materials management.
They perform the kind of due diligence work that protects clients during property transactions that range from undeveloped parcels to large commercial and industrial sites. It’s detailed, high-stakes work, and the business behind it deserves a payment process that keeps up.
The Challenge
ProTec was operating without a credit card processing solution. In a B2B environment where invoices move through layers of approval and payment timelines stretch, that gap had real consequences.
When clients have friction at the point of payment, days sales outstanding (DSO) climbs, and extended DSO means less cash on hand, less flexibility, and more time chasing receivables instead of running the business.
ProTec needed a solution that gave clients payment options without creating new administrative headaches on the back end.
What We Provided
Evolve Payment set ProTec up with a gateway and virtual terminal solution called Accept.Blue, implementing a dual pricing model that gives clients the choice between ACH processing and card payment.
Rather than absorbing credit card fees into overhead, dual pricing puts the decision in the client’s hands. They can pay by ACH at the standard rate or they can pay by card with the processing fee passed through transparently.
The setup was straightforward, the monthly cost was very reasonable, and ProTec was up and running without a complicated onboarding process.
The Impact
The results go beyond just adding a new payment method. By giving clients a clear, flexible path to pay, ProTec has reduced friction in its accounts receivable process, and that reduced friction directly shortens DSO.
Faster payment cycles mean better cash fluidity, which means money back in the business sooner. For a firm doing the kind of meticulous, project-based work ProTec does, that cash on hand matters.
It funds the next project, covers operating costs, and keeps the business moving without unnecessary gaps between billable work and received payment. For a Minnesota family business built on doing thorough, careful work, that’s the kind of ROI that doesn’t require a spreadsheet to justify.
Sound Familiar? Connect With Us
If your business runs on invoices or any B2B payment structure where getting paid on time feels harder than it should, we can help. Evolve Payment works with businesses across industries to simplify the payment process, reduce DSO, and build accounts receivable systems that work with you and not against you.
Give us a call or connect via form today.
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