Advice needed - unpaid invoices, next step?

**dancingbutterfly**

redmalc wrote: »

A Big Business with a accounts department in India and they will only pay half of £600 by next Friday,I am sorry but i think you need to act quickly before you are Shafted

They say they will pay all invoices that are ready to be sent to india. They have to print off, code, send to manager to authorise then send to india to process. As the other half is within the last month they havent processed them yet. Its so blimmin tedious....and isnt my problem! I'll send a final notice on thursday if i havent received a lot of it.

thanks for your reply and thanks Mervyn

Firefox1975

Firefox1975 wrote: »

you are going to get stung for this money.Stop working for them now, immediately.

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never thought of quoting myself before!:)

ok Seriously

"you are going to get stung for this money.Stop working for them now, immediately."

I mean it.

all that stuff about India is nonsense, pure and simple, no company outsources its accountancy function to India, telesales yes, accountancy, no way.

unless it is the "India property management company" or something. which doesnt add up either cos why would they want to be trading in the uk in the current climate?

You, my friend, Are being taken for a mug.

**dancingbutterfly**

Thanks for your post firefox, I will stop and have already. I should have done 2 jobs on Monday but didn't.

No more work until all money is received and maybe then if I find other work I,ll drop them.

Will let you know what happens next week.

Mistral001

Some large companies will at the end of the week, or month just go through the list of invoices and make a decision on who to pay that week/month and who to pay next month. This could be because of poor cashflow within the company at that particular time. It could also be an attitude that they have a sort of hierarchy of suppliers based on whatever they decide. If the electricity id going to be cut off they will probably always pay that on time - that sort of thing.

To check if the company is solvent then you can pay about £10 for a financial report where you will get three years past accounts. It will not be totally up to date but might give some indication. (I have gotten such reports from Checksure).

pelirocco

Firefox1975 wrote: »

never thought of quoting myself before!:)

ok Seriously

"you are going to get stung for this money.Stop working for them now, immediately."

I mean it.

all that stuff about India is nonsense, pure and simple, no company outsources its accountancy function to India, telesales yes, accountancy, no way.

unless it is the "India property management company" or something. which doesnt add up either cos why would they want to be trading in the uk in the current climate?

You, my friend, Are being taken for a mug.

And you are wrong , companies do outsource to India , I have dealt with a couple of large companies who do just that

pelirocco

Mistral001 wrote: »

Some large companies will at the end of the week, or month just go through the list of invoices and make a decision on who to pay that week/month and who to pay next month. This could be because of poor cashflow within the company at that particular time. It could also be an attitude that they have a sort of hierarchy of suppliers based on whatever they decide. If the electricity id going to be cut off they will probably always pay that on time - that sort of thing.

To check if the company is solvent then you can pay about £10 for a financial report where you will get three years past accounts. It will not be totally up to date but might give some indication. (I have gotten such reports from Checksure).

I can check them for free if you send me the details , however its only as good as the last available info on them

To be fair a lot of large companies ( small ones too lol ) cant handle payment in 14 days invoices and tend to pay monthly ( at best ) doesnt mean they are dodgy

jexygirl

**dancingbutterfly** wrote: »

Hi guys,

My invoice terms are payment within 14 days which obviously isn't being adhered to.

When my friend was there, invoices were sent on a monday and they would be printed off and authorised and paid on the wednesday.

And since your friend left the process changed and they outsourced???? NOT!

You are simply being treated like most small businesses - I don't think for a minute they are going down, they are simply not going to pay you until absolutely forced too - your friend being there mean't she put them through as she knew you, but now you are simply a number to whoever is dealing with it. He who shouts loudest.

Send final demand within 3 days payment to be made or legal action taken, and that no work will be undertaken by your company until ALL back invoices overdue are paid - your terms are 14 days remember.

At the moment, they are banking on you being to scared to rock the boat as you need their business - but if you let them do this to you, you will forever be in this position of constant chasing, so hold your ground and don't be held to ransom. Yes you need the work, but you also need to be paid for what you do.

**dancingbutterfly**

Well guys you were right.

Ive just called them and nothing has been paid! I'm so angry!

Just being fobbed off saying my invoices aren't on the system yet and they're snowed under with work.


I was supposed to clean for them on Monday but haven't done a thing

I'm going to write a final demand now, never done one before any tips apart from ones above?


Thanks

Absinthe_2

Here are some final demand templates, after a quick google search. May help you.

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=sea&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=final%20demand%20template&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&gs_l=&pbx=1&fp=756645512da70e5e&ix=sea&ion=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&biw=1680&bih=882