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Referral Partners: How to support your customers using Debitura

As a referral partner, you provide first-line support to your customers who use Debitura for debt collection. This guide covers how to use the Referral Partner Dashboard to answer customer questions about case status and more.

Goal

Help your customers by looking up their case status, assisting with onboarding, verifying attribution, and escalating to Debitura when needed.

Prerequisites

Steps

1. Log in to the Referral Partner Dashboard

  1. Enter your Partner GUID on the login page.

  2. The dashboard authenticates your partner account and opens the Cases view.

Your session persists for 14 days, even if you close the tab or restart the browser. After 14 days, or if you log out, you will need to re-authenticate with your Partner GUID. If you receive an authentication error, request updated credentials from Debitura.

2. Look up a customer's case status

When a customer asks about a collection case, use the Cases view to find it.

  1. Navigate to the Cases view (the default view after login).

  2. Use the search bar to find the case by case reference (e.g. DEB-12345), debtor name, or customer (client) company name.

  3. Optionally, filter by status tab: All, Active, Pending, Closed, or Paused.

  4. The table shows the case reference, customer name, debtor name, invoice amount, status, assigned collection partner, creation date, and last activity date.

What each status means:

  • Active - the case is currently with a collection partner who is working on recovery.

  • Pending - the case is awaiting contract signing or collection partner assignment.

  • Closed - collection is complete (successfully collected or terminated).

  • Paused - collection activity is temporarily on hold.

You can export the filtered results as a CSV file for further analysis.

3. Help a customer complete onboarding

If a customer has not yet signed the Standard Debt Collection Agreement (SDCA), their cases will remain in "Pending" status. Use the Clients view to check and resolve this.

  1. Switch to the Clients view.

  2. Filter by the Unsigned SDCA tab to see customers who have not yet signed the SDCA.

  3. Find the customer in the table. The "Onboarding Status" column shows Pending or Complete.

  4. For customers with pending onboarding, click on the row to open the onboarding modal. This displays the full onboarding URL and a copy-to-clipboard button.

  5. Share the onboarding URL with your customer. They need to visit this link to confirm their company details, add users, and sign the SDCA electronically.

Once the customer completes onboarding, their status updates to "Complete" and their cases can proceed to collection partner assignment.

If a customer reports problems completing onboarding, see Customer signup / activation issues.

If a customer has pending KYC verification: For customers whose cases are routed to a collection partner that requires KYC (currently UK partners under Oriel Collections), a Pending KYC Status badge appears in the Clients view. Clicking it opens a form where you can submit the director's full name, home address, and date of birth on the customer's behalf. This unblocks case submission without requiring the customer to fill in the form themselves. Once submitted, the badge updates to Completed.

4. Verify earnings and attribution

Use the Earnings view to check that referral fees are being generated for your customers' cases.

  1. Switch to the Earnings view.

  2. Review the summary cards at the top: Total Earned, Ready to Invoice, Awaiting Debitura Payment, and Pending.

  3. Search the transaction table by case reference or customer name to find specific earnings.

  4. Check the Revenue Stage column to see where the fee is in the lifecycle: Pending (you can invoice), Invoiced (awaiting payment), or Paid (complete).

All amounts are displayed in USD for consistency across currencies. For details on how revenue stages work and how to invoice Debitura, see Revenue sharing and financial reconciliation.

If you expect fees for a case but none appear, check whether the customer is an attributed or non-attributed client. Non-attributed clients only generate fees on cases submitted through your platform (via bearer token), not on cases the client creates directly in Debitura. For more details, see Referral program overview. If you believe attribution is incorrect, see Missing lead attribution.

5. Escalate to Debitura

Debitura handles collection partner management, case operations, and compliance. Escalate to Debitura when:

  • A customer reports a problem you cannot resolve through the dashboard (e.g. case stuck in an unexpected status).

  • A customer disputes a fee or has a billing question that requires Debitura's investigation.

  • You need technical support with your integration or dashboard access.

Contact channels:

When escalating, include the case reference, customer name, and a description of the issue so Debitura can investigate efficiently. For response-time SLAs and the full escalation path (including critical-issue contact), see Referral Partners: Support channels, SLA, and escalation.

Common questions from your customers

Use these scripted answers to handle the three questions customers ask most often. Tailor the wording to your tone of voice; the facts below come from how Debitura's collection process actually works.

"Why was my case rejected?"

When a partner declines a case, the dashboard shows the specific close code on the case row in the Cases view (small text below the status badge in the case list). The close code tells you why the partner could not work the case.

Common reasons partners decline include: insufficient supporting documents, debtor jurisdiction or claim amount falling outside the partner's coverage, debtor already known to be insolvent or untraceable, or duplicate debtor records.

If the close code does not make the situation clear, escalate to Debitura with the case reference and ask for a fuller explanation.

"How long will collection take?"

Standard cases run on a 6-month exclusive pre-legal period. During this period the assigned collection partner is the only party working the case, and the customer cannot withdraw it without paying the full success fee.

The 6-month period extends automatically by 12 months if the debtor:

  • Provides a written promise to pay, or

  • Signs a payment agreement (for example, an installment plan), or

  • Makes any actual payment.

If the 6-month period passes with no outcome, the case may close as "Pre-Legal Exhausted - No Payment", and the customer can decide whether to pursue legal escalation.

"Who is the collection partner working on my case?"

Debitura assigns a local collection partner automatically, based on the debtor's country. The assigned partner's name is visible in the case sidebar inside the dashboard.

Customers can communicate directly with the assigned partner using the in-platform case chat on the case detail page. Every collection partner in the network has been verified and onboarded by Debitura, so customers do not need to vet partners themselves.

When to escalate vs self-serve

Use this table to decide what to advise your customer.

Situation

Recommended action

Question about a specific active case (status, documents, debtor contact)

Use in-platform case chat first - the assigned collection partner is the right contact

Platform or technical issue

No response within SLA

Contact your assigned account manager

Dispute or legal concern

SLA reminder: collection partners are expected to reply in case chat within 48 business hours (weekends excluded). If you have not heard back within that window, send a follow-up in case chat before escalating.

Result

After completing these steps, you can answer your customers' questions about case progress, help them complete onboarding, verify that referral fees are being generated correctly, and escalate complex issues to Debitura with the right information.

Edge cases

  • Dashboard is read-only. The Referral Partner Dashboard does not support creating cases, modifying client details, or managing onboarding directly. Cases are created through your platform's API integration. Onboarding is completed by the customer via the onboarding URL.

  • Non-attributed clients generate limited fees. If a customer already existed in Debitura before linking to your platform, they are marked as non-attributed. Fees are generated only for cases submitted through your platform, not for cases the client creates directly in the Debitura web app.

  • Onboarding URL expiration. If a customer's onboarding link has expired, a new link must be generated through your platform's API integration by calling the client creation endpoint again.

  • CSV export limit. Dashboard CSV exports are limited to 1,000 rows. For larger datasets, use the Referral Partner API directly.

  • KYC verification blocks new cases. If a customer's assigned collection partner requires KYC (currently UK partners under Oriel Collections) and no director details are on file, new case submissions through your API integration are rejected with a MissingKycVerification error (HTTP 422). You can resolve this by submitting the director's full name, home address, and date of birth from the Clients view in the dashboard. Once submitted, subsequent case submissions for that customer proceed normally.

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