> I also amended my payment terms to include some pretty harsh late > payment penalties - e.g. 10% compounding per month. The invoices > included the amount at the bottom, but also the extrapolated late > amount if they pay in 60 days and another row for 90 days. For small > amounts this can look quite a lot of extra cash. Each month I then > send a reminder with the updated late amount. It was amazing how many > late payment fees I did receive (1000s of dollars on top of invoices) > - at the end of the day some people do have difficulties paying and > making it crystal clear that they have a leeway in time, but will cost > them more, sometimes gives them more incentive to pay your bill first.
Might be time for [my employer] to start charging usary interest rates to web designers who are overdue on their co-location and DSL accounts. > Obviously this works if the client intends to pay, other than that my > legal advice was to issue a statutory demand for the fees (e.g. pay up > within 15 days or we legally liquidate your business) - a rather harsh > approach (and a cost of 250 bucks thanks very much). This one finally > ended up at the disputes tribunal which cost $100 to register the > dispute - they recommended I should have come this route first (yeh I My Mother (who is a qualified lawyer though not currently practicing) used to work as a solicitor specialising in debt collection and company windups. By all accounts her advice to me is that it's (rarely/never) that easy, cheap or straight forward. Please advise us if you have actually done this through to completion or are you just talking? > When I send out my final notices in the past I've included a snippet > of my terms that allows me to disable their website until they pay > without nageting their payment - my terms of business also make all > work my property until paid for in full, so there could be > justification for contacting the current web host if it's not you or > you don't have access to demand they take down pages that are your I work as a Sysadmin at a webhosting and internet company. Chances of us (or any ISP) listening to your demands to take down a client's website on this basis = NIL. The only basis an ISP will suspend a client's website is for breach of their AUP, non payment (to them) or copyright infringement eg: MP3's etc... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
