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Do you charge late fee for delayed payments? If yes, how much. and how to mention it in invoice?
Autor wątku: Supriya Dixit
Supriya Dixit Indie Local time: 19:15 angielski > hindi + ...
Oct 9, 2022
Hi All, I am a freelancer working with English-Hindi and I have experienced some professional ghosting in the past. I researched on ways to avoid it, and one of them was to charge a late fee. So I just want to know, do you charge a late fee for delayed payments to avoid ghosting? If yes, how much? Is it to be mentioned in terms of percentage or some other way? And what is the best phrase to mention it in your invoice?
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I haven’t had a single delayed payment for a long time. Most of my customers are repeat clients and pay like clockwork. There’s just a very sporadic client who is less punctual but pays the moment I send a reminder. With a new client we have to be explicit from the start: I always say that my payment terms are 30 days after invoice date by bank transfer or through Wise or TransferMate. I’d say that late fees in general are a waste of time, they are low, hard to enforce, can become an accou... See more
I haven’t had a single delayed payment for a long time. Most of my customers are repeat clients and pay like clockwork. There’s just a very sporadic client who is less punctual but pays the moment I send a reminder. With a new client we have to be explicit from the start: I always say that my payment terms are 30 days after invoice date by bank transfer or through Wise or TransferMate. I’d say that late fees in general are a waste of time, they are low, hard to enforce, can become an accounting nightmare and to top it up clients who don’t pay don’t care a dime about them… ▲ Collapse
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jyuan_us USA Local time: 09:45 Członek ProZ.com od 2005 angielski > chiński + ...
Mind you
Oct 10, 2022
Mentioning that you will charge a late fee for delayed payments could be felt as annoying, and it could scare away potentially good clients. Remember there are much more honest clients than bad players.
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Christopher Schröder Wielka Brytania Członek ProZ.com od 2011 szwedzki > angielski + ...
Yes and no
Oct 10, 2022
jyuan_us wrote:
Mentioning that you will charge a late fee for delayed payments could be felt as annoying, and it could scare away potentially good clients. Remember there are much more honest clients than bad players.
Absolutely not. It’s standard business practice.
I mention one but have never applied it.
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Evgeny Sidorenko Rosja Local time: 16:45 angielski > rosyjski + ...
I have a different way of handling this
Oct 10, 2022
An existing client delaying the payment a little with reasonable excuses (they are rare but exist) and/or with prior notice is ok. Anyone with a 1-2 days' delay for unacceptable reasons is put on the 'yellow list' (work with caution and/or avoid when 'safer' jobs are available). Anyone with longer/unannounced/unjustified delays are included into the 'red list' (never work again).
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