Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: telboy on February 08, 2009, 11:48:06 am
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Just gone through my outstanding invoices all commercial
£ 5,286.00 owed,but I know the cheques will arrive reguarly some in two or three weeks some in a couple of months
I know a lot of commercial window cleaners are owed alot more than this
And probably are not unduly worried ,most commercial is at least 28 days for payment
How would this sit with domestic window cleaners.
Telboy
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I do mainly domestic.
If I had that amount outstanding I would go under.
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I will clean there windows twice and if I dont get payment when there due again on the 3rd clean they dont get cleaned
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Owed about a weeks wage on domestic properties, need to get out collecting :)
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If I had that amount outstanding I would go under.
If I had that amount outstanding I would be out knocking on doors with a baseball bat!
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If I had that amount outstanding I would go under.
If I had that amount outstanding I would be out knocking on doors with a baseball bat!
;D ;D ;D
I would just like to have that much! ::)
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we always have between 10 and £15,000 outstanding. and we are commercial and domestic.
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we always have between 10 and £15,000 outstanding. and we are commercial and domestic.
You've got to employ or sub to have that much outstanding; and are there any 'flap times' when you're struggling to pay your employees/sub-contractors when your cash-flow is dire and overdraft to the hilt?
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no we dont have any problems like that, never in my overdraft, no problems paying my staff, the bigger you get the more is outstanding at any one time, we turn over more than 400k a year
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Lee your website gives a blank page.
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www.pryors-uk.com
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i find that what i turnover a month is normally about my debt each month. it all just rolls over. so if i was turning over 400k a year my debt would be around 30k so to keep it at 10 - 15k is good going!!
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about 40 quid
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im alway outstanding £500-£1k.
over xmas £300
at prescent i turn over £41k
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I find that it is always about 3-5k per van outstanding at any one time, i run 3 vans so 10-15 but as you say it constantly rolls over, so it doesnt bother me. oh and we are currently working on moving over to direct debit and if that works we wont have anything outstanding!
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I find that it is always about 3-5k per van outstanding at any one time, i run 3 vans so 10-15 but as you say it constantly rolls over, so it doesnt bother me. oh and we are currently working on moving over to direct debit and if that works we wont have anything outstanding!
Lee do you have msn at all? i wouldn't mind chatting to you about direct debit. i think i've had some duff info in the past
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steve i dont have msn but you can email me lee@pryors-uk.com
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lee
How much of your turnover comes from window cleaning ?
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let me just work that out............ 375,000 from window cleaning then a further 15K per year per van on our extras, gutters, facia, conservatory roofs, insides and a full range of jetwashing services, i also sub out carpet cleaning.
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I thought about direct debit but how would this work, you couldnt have a set day a month as we work on 4 week rotas so 13 cleans a year and youd only ge12 payments, also running late like now theyd be debited before clean been done.
Chris
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yes i had to get my head round that also.
we do 6 8 or 12 weekly, mostly 6 so if a customer is £25.00 at 6 weeks lets say, that is 8 cleans a year. so 25 x 8= £200.00 divided by 12 monthly payments = £16.66 per month
Now what if we dont come or they have something extra? well if they werent done in the week they are due or the beggining of the following week we would send a cheque to the value of 1 clean (£25.00) along with a letter explaining why we werent there and when we are due next keeping them in the picture which is always good
As direct debits are adjustable a the companies end if they had say the gutters cleared for £60.00 we would add that to their next dd making it £76.66
So in short the dd makes an affordable service even more affordable while at the same time removing the customer from the payment process eliminating late payments completely and guranteeing positive cash flow into your business