Overdue invoice – advice needed!
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this site is excellent:
http://www.payontime.co.uk/You are within your rights to charge interest on the debt, in fact, this site has a handy interest calculator.
Legal action, really is a last resort, and having been in this situation a few times, if you want to go down that route, i would start planning now.
Make sure you document your attempts to gain payment (record phone calls and emails sent). Also, try if possible to enquire why they are not paying, and get an answer from them about if there is any dispute over the work. Usually they just say "no the work was fine, and the cheques in the mail", which it isn't. But what that means is you have established that the invoice isn't disputed and that the work you delivered was satisfactory.
The first step is usually a letter from a legal firm and their own letterhead. There are a few law firms onlines that do that for a couple of quid each letter. That usually does the trick anyway and gives them a kick up the backside.