| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Poll: How often do you receive late payments? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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macimovic
Netherlands
Local time: 04:12
English to Serbian
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They've always paid within agreed due date.
| | | | | Most are paying early | Jan 30, 2014 |
I haven't had any problems with late payment in a long time *knock on wood*
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Markus Perndl wrote:
... if "late" means more than a couple of days. If a client regulary pays more than a week too late, I stop working with him. I am delivering my translations in time and I also have to pay my invoices in time, so there's no reason to grant a client an interest-free credit. I'm not a bank.
I cannot understand why some translators are accepting late payments. Why are they so submissive?
That's exactly my policy as well.
| | | | Mario Chavez (X) 
Local time: 22:12
English to Spanish
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| About late payments | Jan 30, 2014 |
Like Muriel said, there are clients whose standard payment terms are 90 days. I don't work for them.
In the last 2 years, I only had one client who paid me late twice. But he had the grace to call in advance and explain his predicament every time. Since I was not in a financial hardship to get the payment right away, I exercised patience and waited.
However, I'm more judicious about accepting this client's upcoming jobs given that prior experience.
Another ... See more Like Muriel said, there are clients whose standard payment terms are 90 days. I don't work for them.
In the last 2 years, I only had one client who paid me late twice. But he had the grace to call in advance and explain his predicament every time. Since I was not in a financial hardship to get the payment right away, I exercised patience and waited.
However, I'm more judicious about accepting this client's upcoming jobs given that prior experience.
Another colleague mentioned in this poll that he waits for his clients to pay inasmuch as his clients get paid by their own clients. Well, I wouldn't give a client that benefit because my creditors don't offer me the same accommodation. If my cable + Internet bill is due, I can't tell my cable provider to wait because I haven't been paid by a client.
But we all work with what we've got. ▲ Collapse
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 04:12
Spanish to English
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| Different strokes | Jan 31, 2014 |
Markus Perndl wrote:
... if "late" means more than a couple of days. If a client regulary pays more than a week too late, I stop working with him.
I cannot understand why some translators are accepting late payments. Why are they so submissive?
I don't see late payments as a question of domination vs submission. Rather, it is more about cultural difference. I'm not going to go into this in detail for fear or treading on too many toes but... stereotypes exist for a reason. Some countries / cultures have a more lax approach to billing and payment whereas others are more formal. So, what is sauce for the goose in the better-off areas of northern Europe may not be sauce for the gander in sunnier climes. And as for the Far East, it might as well be another planet, from Julian's description of the set-up in Japan. If a country's national, regional or local government bodies are unable to pay their suppliers (e.g. Spain) how can it expect to enforce obligatory prompt payment on its private sector?
However, its not an issue for me, as long as they pay in the end. And if my clients do default or pay later than I'd like them to, I try not to take it as a personal slight.
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