Poll: When an invoice is overdue, when do you send the first reminder?
Francisco Rocha Brazil Local time: 18:48 English to Spanish + ...
Professional work means professional payment?
Nov 26, 2009
Not always. I don't like that my clients ask me to deliver my job, so I always send it on time. The same way, I hate to keep reminding clients to pay for work that has been done.
If the client is a bad payer, sometimes I ask a friend (or my wife if she's in the mood) to act as my accountant and harass the client, that way, I can keep calling them to get and deliver work, and leave the complaints about payments to someone else.
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Colleagues voting for "I don't send reminders": what do you?
Nov 27, 2009
I was more than surprised to see that appr. 4,6 % of all the participants in this poll voted for "I don't send reminders". Could you please explain what you are doing when your client is late with payment? Do you just wait and hope? Start praying?
We don't wait too long before reminding our clients if they haven't paid within the stipulated 14 days. As a matter of fact, a translation represents a value which the client can use for earning money. Seen from an economic perspective, we have granted a loan to the client from the day we delivered the translation.
Remember: We are their business partners, not their bank!
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