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Satago tells you who is risky. It does not ring them.
Satago's real strength is information: credit reports, risk scoring and a view of who is likely to pay late before they do. That is a genuinely different product from ours and it solves a problem we do not solve at all.
We do not offer credit reports, risk scores or anything resembling their data product. If what you actually need is to know which customers to be careful of before you take the job, Satago does something we cannot and you should buy it.
The short answer
Satago is priced from £45 and it is a tool with data attached. The reminders go from your own email, which means the chasing, the judgement and the escalation all remain yours.
Side by side
Two products aimed at two different moments.
| Dimension | Satago | Hound |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | Basic £45, Premium £80, Platinum £200 a month, or ten times those figures billed annually. | £199 a month, or £1,990 a year annually, plus 8% of a qualifying recovery capped at £1,000 an invoice. |
| The thing it is best at | Credit reports and risk data: 25 reports on Basic, 100 on Premium, unlimited on Platinum. Knowing who to worry about. | Chasing the ones who already owe you. We have no risk product at all. |
| When it helps | Before you take the job, and while the invoice is merely late. | From day three past due, and all the way to a regulated firm. |
| Who sends the chase | You do. Their own wording is credit control from your own email account, with schedules you build. | We do, from your accounts address, on a ladder you approved once. |
| Reminder limits | 100 emails a month on Basic; unlimited email and 100 SMS on Premium; 1,000 SMS on Platinum. | No limit, because you are not the one sending them. |
| Statutory interest | A late payment calculator is listed on every tier. We could not confirm that interest is applied to chased invoices automatically. | Added per invoice under the 1998 Act from the first letter, and it is yours to keep. |
| Escalation | We found no published route to a letter before action or a court claim. | A documented pack to a regulated firm, at cost, on your instruction. |
| Integrations | Sage, Xero and QuickBooks. | Xero, QuickBooks, Sage and FreeAgent, read-only. |
No ticks and crosses, because these are two different jobs rather than the same job done well and badly. Figures checked 6 August 2026.
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Knowing who will pay late is not the same as being paid.
Risk data is genuinely useful and most trades have none of it. Knowing that a main contractor has a deteriorating credit profile before you price the job is worth real money, and it is the sort of thing that stops a bad debt existing rather than recovering it afterwards.
It is also, on its own, information you then have to act on. The invoice that ruins your year is usually not the one from the customer you had doubts about. It is the one from the customer you had worked for happily for three years, whose payment run quietly went from thirty days to ninety while you were busy.
For that invoice, a risk score tells you what you already know. What moves it is somebody asking, repeatedly, on a schedule, in a way that makes clear the asking will not stop.
02
Sending from your own email cuts both ways.
Satago's reminders go from your own email account, which is a deliberate design and a good one. It keeps the relationship yours and it means your customer sees a familiar address rather than a third party.
We do the same thing for the first rungs, from your accounts address, and for the same reason. The difference is who is on the hook for pressing send. When a reminder goes out under your name from your inbox, the reply comes back to you, the awkward phone call is yours, and the decision about whether to escalate lands on the same desk it always did.
That is the part we take. Not the tone, not the address, not the relationship. The part where somebody has to keep going when it stops being comfortable.
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What we could not confirm about Satago.
Their published pricing page does not state whether the figures are inclusive or exclusive of VAT, which matters because a comparison mixing the two is not like for like. We could not confirm their free trial length from a Satago page. We could not confirm whether statutory interest is applied automatically or calculated for you to apply. We could not confirm whether they chase consumer debts as well as business ones.
As with every page here, those are gaps in what is published rather than criticisms, and we will correct any of them on being told.
Where we are the wrong answer
When Satago is the better buy.
There is an obvious case for them and it is not a grudging one. If any of this is your actual problem, they solve something we do not.
- You want credit data on customers before you take the work. We do not offer that at any price and it is a genuinely valuable thing to have.
- Your problem is deciding who to extend credit to, not recovering from people you already have. That is a different job and Satago is built for it.
- You want to keep sending the chases yourself and just want them organised. Their Basic tier at £45 is considerably cheaper than we are for exactly that.
- You have somebody in the business who will reliably do the chasing and simply needs better tooling and better information.
- Your ledger is small enough that £45 a month for reminders and a handful of credit reports is proportionate and our fee is not.
We would rather you read that and go elsewhere than sign up and work it out in a month. If one of those lines is you, the honest answer is that we are not the thing to buy.
Straight answers
What people ask when comparing the two.
Can I use both?
Yes, and for a business taking on new commercial customers regularly it is a sensible pairing. Use their data to decide who to extend credit to, and let us chase what goes overdue anyway. We are not competing for the same job as closely as a comparison table implies.
Is Satago cheaper than Hound?
Their Basic tier at £45 a month is well under our £199 a month, and their Platinum tier at £200 is roughly the same. The question is not which number is smaller but whether you want a tool or the work done. If somebody in your business will reliably do the chasing, £45 buys them a better set of instruments than we do.
Do you offer credit reports?
No. We check whether a debtor company is still on the Companies House register before we escalate anything, because chasing a dissolved company is pointless, but that is a safety check rather than a risk product. If you want credit scoring, buy it from somebody who sells it.
Does Satago take debts to court?
We found no published route from Satago to a letter before action or a county court claim. Their published product is credit control and risk data. If that is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
Where did these figures come from?
Satago's own published pricing page, read on 6 August 2026 and linked above. Prices are theirs to change, so if one is out of date we would rather be told than leave it here.
Start
Hand us the worst one and see what happens.
Debt Rescue is a 60-day trial on a single stuck invoice. Nothing is charged up front, and if we have recovered nothing by day 60 we cancel it ourselves and you are charged nothing at all. That is the entire cost of finding out whether any of the above is true.