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Clients: How to request corrections to case data or claim amounts

This guide explains how to correct debtor details, claim amounts, or invoice dates on a submitted case. What you can change depends on how far your case has progressed through the case lifecycle.

Goal

Update incorrect information on a submitted case, including debtor contact details, claim amounts, invoice dates, and other case data.

Before the collection partner has accepted your case

While your case is in Pending Verification status, you can edit most fields directly from the case detail page. Open your cases list, select the case, and make your changes.

Editable fields at this stage include:

  • Debtor contact information (email, phone)

  • Debtor identity fields (name, company name, registration number)

  • Debtor address (street, zip code, city, and state/region for non-US debtors)

  • Principal amount and currency

  • Invoice date and due date

If you change the principal amount, the system will recalculate the success fee and display a price confirmation before saving. You can change the debtor type and the debtor's country only early in Pending Verification, while Debitura is still checking the case and before the collection partner starts reviewing it. Such a change can move the case to another collection partner and can change the success fee: a fee change is shown for you to confirm before saving, and an agreed special rate is kept without a question.

For the full list of editable fields and step-by-step instructions, see edit debtor information and claim details.

After the collection partner has accepted your case

Once your case is Active, Paused, or in More Info Required status, the assigned collection partner is working the case, so changes go through them. You can no longer edit the debtor or the claim yourself: the debtor's name, type, email, phone and address, and the claim amounts and dates, all have to be requested from the partner. The partner can correct the debtor's name, contact details, address and debtor type - the type only while they still handle the corrected type, and the case then stays with them. The debtor's country and jurisdiction cannot be changed at this stage. The one thing you can still change yourself is the bank account used to receive recovered funds.

To request a correction:

  1. Open the case and go to the case chat (see contact your collection partner).

  2. Send a message describing what needs to change.

  3. Attach any supporting documentation if you are requesting an amount change or correcting key details.

  4. The collection partner receives a task with a 2 business day response deadline.

  5. The partner reviews your request, updates their system, and replies via the case chat.

Exception - bank account. The account used to receive recovered funds can be changed at any status except Merged, including on Active, Paused and More Info Required cases. A merged (absorbed) case is view-only on its case page, including its bank-account controls - open the surviving case for further case work. If a historical payout destination needs correction, ask support to inspect the exact case and payout. Open the case and change it from the case detail page. This requires the Creditor Admin role and only works on cases belonging to your own company or division. Every change is recorded on the case, and your collection partner receives a task asking them to verify that the debtor has the correct payment instructions. To change several cases at once, use the bulk reassignment flow on your cases list. See How to add, update, and archive bank accounts.

Corrections that require Debitura support

Some changes cannot be made by you or the collection partner. Contact [email protected] for:

  • Changing the collection partner - only possible if no payments have been received on the case.

  • Changing the debtor's jurisdiction - not possible once the collection partner has started reviewing the case. Before that, you change the debtor's country yourself on the case.

When contacting support, include your case reference number, a description of the correction needed, and any supporting documentation.

When closing and resubmitting is easier

For cases still in Pending Verification (before a partner has accepted), it is often faster to close the case and create a new one with the correct information. Early-stage closures incur no fees.

Do not use this route to fix a wrong debtor type on an Active, Paused or More Info Required case - ask the collection partner in the case chat instead, who can correct it while they still handle the corrected type. Closing an accepted case runs the closure-request route and can carry the full success fee plus the partner's collection costs.

Use the "Close case" button on the case detail page. For the full process, see close or withdraw a case.

Summary of what you can change and when

What you want to change

Debtor details

Amounts and dates

How to change

Case in Pending Verification

Yes (edit directly). Debtor type and country only before the collection partner starts reviewing the case

Yes (edit directly)

Edit on the case detail page

Case in Active / Paused / More Info Required

No (request only)

No (request only)

Request in the case chat

Bank account

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Yes (Creditor Admin) - edit from the case detail page, at any status except Merged

Partner change; jurisdiction after the collection partner starts reviewing

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Partner change: not self-service - contact [email protected]. Jurisdiction after the partner starts reviewing: not possible.

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