Problems getting paid from a client
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- lmno
I've been helping a client out with a project.....my client now tells me his client has cancelled the project after I've done 99.9% of the work.
Is there any way I can get my agreed fee? I do have a purchase order.......
- maikel0
( this again? )
- georgesIII0
( this again? )
- Ranger0
Have you asked for payment?
- jamble0
Why do you have so much trouble getting paid? If you've got a contract in place, enforce that fucker. It's what it's for. I appreciate sometimes it's not always that easy but generally you've got to be agressive when it comes to payment collection.
- lowimpakt0
don't take any shit from them.
if you had an agreed fee they have to pay.
- Ranger0
You're working for your client, not your client's client. You've done the work that your client has asked for, so you charge your client accordingly. It's then his problem to chase up his client for costs he is occurring.
- lmno0
Brilliant. Thanks for your advice!
- flashbender0
have you tried using profanity and threatening violence?
- pablo_280
hire a hacker
- maikel0
I think I posted this once or twice, but anyway...
1) Get a good set of T&C checked by a lawyer.
2) Use them.Then, if something goes wrong that there are no hard feeling, no cheeky emails, no nothin'. Just a contract that can be enforced.
- formed0
Good luck, people are still disappearing and going bankrupt left and right.
Send them an invoice for the work done, talk with them.
Most companies that I work with pay as they get paid (architecture/construction industries, that, imho, have horrible payment models). Now, I never accept that as a payment option, but in today's world it is a lot tougher and companies have very little cash flow.
Send them the invoice for the work done (I'd skip this "cancellation" fee, which, again imho, would mean you'd never work with them again). If they are professional, they'll work something out with you.
They should have a deposit from their client that would cover most of their overhead. If not, then you probably wouldn't want to do work with them without getting most of the money up front or in progress (you did get 50% up front, or at least something, right??)
Again, good luck, I've got a handful of companies that haven't paid, some going back over a year. The last one that we tried to sue went bankrupt, court date was set for 1.5 years from now! Not exactly fun or easy. We are in strange and stressful times.
- IF they're professional, they'll pay you when you invoice, not when they get paid!jamble
- wristtattoo0
get some metal up your ass and throw a fucking breeze block through his bmw windscreen. not holding up any hands but i feel better about myself for something similar last month.