[dave0123]

For those of you get cheques sent to you in the post or payments by BACS how long to you give them to pay?

I give cheques 16 days and Bacs 14 days to pay from clean.. seriously thinking of changing this to 10 days for cheque and 8 days for BACS

[Lee13]

I expect immediate payment from residential - most of my customers pay me cash/cheque at the door (or hide somewhere in the garden)

I don't give a deadline, I just give them a card with my bank details and ask them to make the payment. Pretty much everyone pays within a few days, but as I mentioned 95% of my customers pay me as and when. Bear in mind though that I've just started up and I'm in month 3, so as I grow I may need to re-think.

[formb]

Normal terms 30 days.

[ant french]

lee off top kinda but how many custys did u get in first month?  

[Perfect Windows]

I expect immediate payment from residential - most of my customers pay me cash/cheque at the door (or hide somewhere in the garden)

That's better than their hiding behind the sofa, I guess....

Vin

[dave0123]

Normal terms 30 days.

Problem i find with that is you wait ages because they have a month to pay and people may even forget?

[ant french]

i just email my custys or txt them and remind them im coming so to leave the cash etc where its safe in a envelope if there not in, normally there recyle bin

[formb]

Normal terms 30 days.

Problem i find with that is you wait ages because they have a month to pay and people may even forget?

True, but collect double next time.

[ant french]

dont you have any flyers with we cleaned your windows but you wasnt in, we will collect at XXX time or pay via bank transfer with ref: XXXX.

[dave0123]

[quoteTrue, but collect double next time.]

I know what your saying i just prefer to have it on time at the end of the day they wouldn't be happy with half there wages at end of the week.

dont you have any flyers with we cleaned your windows but you wasnt in, we will collect at XXX time or pay via bank transfer with ref: XXXX

I dont do any collections and havent since.. 2005 i think.. would take 1 long to collect from my customers i post envlopes for cheque payment or bacs but still... people take a while to pay. You have it all to come

[Crystal-clear]

i dont have a date but i do call them after about 2 weeks sometimes i let it go a month or to the next clean which is 2 months i may rethink this im owed 12.5% of my total work,im not sure if this figure is good or bad.

[ant french]

i dont accept cheque, cash only for me, if they want to pay by cheque i might think bout a charge not sure yet. im in early stages still :

[dave0123]

You will find alot of people do not carry cash am afraid!!

[chopsie]

I put payment within 3 working days on my slips.......may as well put within 33 working days  : nature of the beast I suppose.

[ant french]

I put payment within 3 working days on my slips.......may as well put within 33 working days  : nature of the beast I suppose.

does that work the payment in 3 days?  out of say 100 custys how many ignore this?? would a late payment thing work or would custys just dump me?

[dave0123]

i was thing of doing this..


on a quote if the price is for example say £15.00 charge 17.00 and then say to customer if you get payment within the week its cleaned or within say 3 working days it will be £15.00 ?


Just to get payment in really .. fed up of not getting money in on time

[chopsie]

I put payment within 3 working days on my slips.......may as well put within 33 working days  : nature of the beast I suppose.

does that work the payment in 3 days?  out of say 100 custys how many ignore this?? would a late payment thing work or would custys just dump me?

out of 100 I guess at least 80 would ignore this, But most pay within a week, the last few pay within a month or 1 or 2 roll over to 2 cleans.

[mlscontractcleaner]

I expect immediate payment from residential - most of my customers pay me cash/cheque at the door (or hide somewhere in the garden)

I don't give a deadline, I just give them a card with my bank details and ask them to make the payment. Pretty much everyone pays within a few days, but as I mentioned 95% of my customers pay me as and when. Bear in mind though that I've just started up and I'm in month 3, so as I grow I may need to re-think.

You most definately will have to re-think; as your customer base increases, along with your takings so will your arrears; I promise

[mikecam]

For those of you get cheques sent to you in the post or payments by BACS how long to you give them to pay?

I give cheques 16 days and Bacs 14 days to pay from clean.. seriously thinking of changing this to 10 days for cheque and 8 days for BACS

I give them until i next contact them to pay, usually a month. Then knock.

[Lee13]

lee off top kinda but how many custys did u get in first month?  

Around 40 customers in my first month