What is a good DSO for your company size? Let us compare notes
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Tess
22d ago
I have been digging into DSO benchmarks lately and the data is all over the place:
- The Hackett Group pegs the overall median at around 48 days across large enterprises
- Net 30 companies typically land at 35-40 days (about 17% over terms)
- Net 60 companies see 68-75 days
- Some mid-market SaaS teams I have talked to are running 42-55 days depending on customer mix
But here is what I keep hearing: the number alone does not tell you much. A 45-day DSO with clean aging and predictable cash flow is very different from a 38-day DSO where one whale customer is masking a long tail of overdue accounts.
Curious where this community falls:
- What is your DSO right now? (Ballpark is fine — no one is auditing you here)
- What payment terms do most of your customers sit on? Net 30? Net 60? A messy mix?
- What is the one thing that actually moved your DSO in the last year? (Automation? Staffing? Better dunning cadence? Yelling at sales?)
Not looking for best practices from a whitepaper — I want to hear what is actually happening on your team.
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CreatedMar 10, 2026
Finance Operations