freelancers – how long to get paid???...
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- mantrakid0
If it's a new client I would ALWAYS get as much up front as I could on a quoted job. Especially for bigger shit thats going to take a while to do, bigger final invoice, longer wait for them to come up with the cash, higher chance of them saying 'actually we cant pay this'.
Been burned a few times, even with a contract in place, some clients are just deadbeat assholes that either take forever to pay (so you never do more work for them) or they skip the bill altogether and the only recourse you have is to send to collections and hope they pull something out of them.
If you are unsure of a routine with a client or how they are going to pay you, how often, how quickly, etc. I think its perfectly reasonable to get half up front.
If a client is 30 days late on an invoice, I almost always say no additional work until that last bill is paid, unless the client is awesome and you know they're good for it anyway.
Freelance shit is tricky as fuck. Cant remember the amount of times my bills 'should have' been paid, but im waiting on a few grand from various peeps at once.