Invoice past clients
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- fusionpixel
I have a client who used to be my employer... well we worked together in a new project and when the project reached 99% now the client of my "client" has been stalling... Do I just sent an invoice to My client and let My client dead with their client? What is the proper way of doing things on these cases?
I'm not in any rush for payment at all but it has been almost 4 months since this project has been 99.99999% completed.
- cosmo0
Send the invoice bro. 4 months is a long time with no pay. Get on their asses.
- tparsons0
Also put a stall clause into your contracts. For us if a project stalls over 2 months we'll bill for the greater amount.
- fusionpixel0
Also put a stall clause into your contracts. For us if a project stalls over 2 months we'll bill for the greater amount.
tparsons
(Sep 12 07, 21:03)---
Ah! That is a very good idea...
- menos0
yeah, how do you guys usually do with payment deadlines? minimum and maximum? 30 days from delivery of final whatever?
- harlequino0
Depends on the size of the company. Small firms, you can expect within 30 days. Larger ones, be prepared for 60 days, maybe more. Larger machines have slower accounting departments. And they don't care if you are one person or a 50+ person vendor. You will wait.
- fusionpixel0
yeah, how do you guys usually do with payment deadlines? minimum and maximum? 30 days from delivery of final whatever?
menos
(Sep 13 07, 07:48)
---I usually try to be "friends" with the accounting department or at least one of their members and I usually have a payment within a week of invoicing since I can email to my "friend" and things seem to move quicker, thats why this kind of got me off guard and not sure how to handle it. :(
- snowcouple0
If its web you can always threaten to cut off their site or email, though do that only if they are stalling on payment. Sounds like you haven't invoiced them. Our invoices are 30 days. After 30 days email is switched off and we find even the large companies manage to pay on time when thats in the clause.
- menos0
can you just email your 'friend' from the client you were working with and explain the situation and that you need to get paid? If i understood correctly you were working with client A to produce something for the ral client - client B. Therefore client A is a sort of agent/mediary between you and client B...so the problem (concerning you) shouldnt be client B, but client A...no? Either way 4 months is a lot of time for 'stalling'...
- letters20
Don't contact any friend at the company or even regard this issues under the "friend" heading.
Its business. Your client is your client. Their client is theirs. Bill them. One thing has nothing to do with the other for your billing purposes.
And yes, always include late payment terms, normally 2–4 percent on the total invoice, rolling every month.
- Daro0
what letters2 said.
I also have a client who used to be my employer. I charge them 50% upfront and 50 upon completion from my part of the project even if the project as a whole is not finished.