Invoice payment seems to be the stitch on every freelancer’s side. When to do it. How to do it. What terms are best?
Being clear as to how to get paid is an important step in actually getting paid on time.
When you send out an invoice, you’re telling your client how much money you expect in return for the work you’ve done. The payment terms specify when that money is due and how it should be paid.
So the most important aspect of the payment terms is the timeframe in which you expect to be paid.
But as part of the payment terms, you can also specify what will happen if people don’t pay: perhaps a penalty or interest to be applied after a certain date. Or, if you want to be more positive, you can offer a discount to anyone who pays early. You can also specify payment methods.
We’ll look at how those options work in the next section, as well as examining which ones work best.
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