Columbia Ultimate, headquartered in Vancouver, Wash, is a provider of software and integrated solutions for collecting money. Established in 1979, its comprehensive debt collection software provides its clients greater productivity, reduces operating costs, increases cash flow and streamlines their collections and recovery processes. It serves more than 500 clients worldwide, including collection agencies, debt buyers and the banking, finance and health care industries, as well as retail and government sectors. Its collector system helps in tracking and management of collections; simplifies and automates collections tasks; and it is a comprehensive and cost-effective collections system that is customizable. The collector express is a comprehensive collection solution for small and startup agencies and its ManageMed system allows follow-up on insurance and self-pay accounts and shorten collection time.