{"id":812,"date":"2013-08-28T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=812"},"modified":"2013-08-28T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:52:08","slug":"five-tips-to-get-small-business-customers-to-pay-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/five-tips-to-get-small-business-customers-to-pay-on-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Five tips to get small business customers to pay on time"},"content":{"rendered":"
While there\u2019s no one way to get clients to pay on time; there are some things you can do to improve or prevent a late-payer situation: Here are five:<\/p>\n Online invoicing may help the process<\/strong><\/p>\n Be positive and polite<\/strong><\/p>\n Whatever the reason for late payment, before calling in an outside service to help you secure the money owed, contact your customer. Late payment may simple be an oversight. Start out with an email or call as a reminder and always be professional and polite. Only resort to debt collection agencies as a last resort.<\/p>\n What works for you when a customer is late in paying?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you find it difficult to get customers to pay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[510],"tags":[1047,637,1018,580],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Do you find it difficult to get customers to pay on time? Late paying customers have historically been the bane of small businesses, so it\u2019s not surprising if you do. Yet the success of your business depends on customers or clients paying on time for the goods and services you offer. Late paying clients \u2013 or worse non-paying – present a cash flow issue and they take a lot of your time to manage.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>In \u201c4 Ways to Get Your Clients to Pay Their Bills & Invoices on Time<\/a>,\u201d PaySimple.com blogger Patrick Jones suggests setting up recurring billing to ensure that clients and customers don\u2019t forget to pay. Online recurring billing systems enable you to input the customer\u2019s billing information, the amount of each billing transaction and the payment methods \u2013 credit card or bank account. Clients and customers automatically receive an email receipt for payment. If not all your customers make recurring payments, you also can use email invoicing. Your customer receives the email notice and can make payment automatically using a secure online form.<\/p>\n
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