Take these steps to do everything you can to get paid when your customer is dragging out payment.
- Call your customer and resend the invoices. Be sure that you submitted the invoice to the correct email address. Follow up with all contacts making sure that they understand they are seriously past due. If your customer is having their own cash flow issues attempt to work out a payment program.
- Give your customer a specific date that you must be paid. Clearly communicate that you will escalate your collection efforts after that date – and that those efforts will have negative consequences for your customer.
- Get all your documents in order. Purchase orders, contracts, invoices and sign offs will clearly prove your case if you must go to court.
- Adjust your own cash flow projections. Do you need to seek additional capital or cut back on expenses until you receive payment?
- Hire a collection agency or lawyer. Another option for debts less than $10,000 is to file in small claims court. This is a relatively fast process that does not require you to hire an attorney.
- Learn you lesson. Review your new customer onboarding and invoicing process. Are you running credit reports on new customers? Are past due invoices being called on before they are way past due?
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