Chasing invoices
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- nowherehead
Little help people: I completed some freelance work for a company over 3 months ago and I'm still awaiting payment. I've emailed several times reminding them and despite promising otherwise, I've had nothing.
I can't seem to get an answer on the phone so what I can do next?
- ********0
petrol + matches + their office
- -sputnik-0
send them a certified letter letting them know they have X amount of time (defined by you) to send payment or you will be sending their invoice to a collection agency
- emecks0
I suggest using sktCollections.
- PonyBoy0
i dunno... I say go w/both skt and sput's combined suggestions... just to cover all bases. :)
- milo0
I mate had this - he got a solicitor to draft a proper letter referencing small claims court proceedings & all that. Cost him about £50, but the company paid up straight away. I'll find out who it was.
- PonyBoy0
hahaha... this place can be so useless... :D
I feel your pain, nowherehead... and it sucks. Really the only way to go about it is small claims court... or get yourself a good collector like sput said.
... one thing I was 'taught' to do by an old job was to call the client and say that you're in the neighborhood and you will be swinging by to pick up that check...
... works almost every time... but I always found that made for an awkward situation.
- nowherehead0
Nice one guys, might try that 'swinging by' idea but there's never an answer on the phone! Maybe I could just turn up. With a hammer.
- mbr0
I am having the same problem, but it's been 7 months.
In the end, unless it is tons of money (and you can hire a lawyer, etc.), if they don't want to pay they won't.
A friend of mine won in small claims, the judge told the guy to pay x amount every whatever. He did that for a few months, then stopped.
I'll try a collection agency, it just seems so 'cheap'.
- ********0
I specify in my contracts that late payments will generate an interest and any and all legal fees that arise due to lack of payment are responsability of the client.
Some clients have rejected signing such a contract and that's fine with me, I prefer to lose a potential client than to get a huge headache later on.
- milo0
Here you go try this lot.
http://www.thomashiggins.comThey will send a letter before action for £2.