Dealing with unpaid invoices

Jon

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Only in a 'IT contracting' basis

Usually involved sending emails to those higher up making them away of the companies fuck up

oh and once they have paid up I don't tend to deal with them anymore lol
 

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I used to work in credit control but am crap at chasing my own invoices.

This is part of why I like working through sites like People Per Hour - no hassle and when things are overdue they do the chasing for you. One client I invoice myself and is a little forgetful, but a polite email saying "hi, did you get the last batch of stuff as the invoice doesn't appear to have been paid" usually does the trick.

Also I put shorter terms on my invoices - 14 days rather than 30 or 4 weeks.
 

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My main article man is frequently late paying me. I usually just send a polite email chasing him up. That tends to work.

If I have a company that makes life difficult with payment, depending on the amount, I wouldn't bother working with them again in the future as the stress of potentially not getting paid for weeks or months wouldn't work for me.
 

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Also a timely reminder of the freelancer's rule about never putting all your eggs in the one basket. If one main client goes under and doesn't pay you, you're writing off weeks of work as a bad debt, but if you spread things around a bit you're less likely to be hit hard.
 

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I think Emma has quite a few different people so definitely not all the eggs in one basket :)
 

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Hope it is ok to ask here.. Does anyone have any suggestions for free invoicing software?
 

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