Payment terms are the statements by a business about *"when"* and *"how"* it should be paid for goods or services that it has supplied.
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Client has Cancelled the project and Asking for refund of Payment
I have agreed for a mobile Application project where everything has to be managed by me only as development and programming designing concern. The only Designing part has been given to another ...
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How do I tell a client that our contract isn't being upheld?
Back in March a friend of mine reached out to me for graphic design work for a crowdfunded project him and a small team were working on. Because I had worked with him in the past on some projects I ...
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How to specify a “deliverables after payment” clause?
I am keen to avoid situations (as I have had in the past) where I hand over source code, and am not paid until significantly later. I'm perfectly happy to demonstrate that the work has been done, but ...
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How to politely stop doing free work for people
I run a small consulting company, mostly paperwork for immigration, starting a business, and a range of other things.
I quite often get a lot of people stopping by to ask questions, leaving, doing ...
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Project owner is asking for refundable deposit
I am new to freelancing and recently placed a bid for one project. Project owner is asking for me to pay the deposit before work is started. They said it is refundable amount.
Is it safe to do so?
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Can I sue my client for not paying?
So, I got a client through Freelancer about a year and a half ago who was not willing to pay me on the site because he said he had an accountant and company process that didn't allow that, but he was ...
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Is it possible for Australian company to hire a full-time freelancer overseas?
I'm a working holiday maker in Sydney. Now I'm working for a startup company as a fullstack developer. My working holiday visa is expiring in Feb. The young company now still need some time to become ...
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Charging for Project (Strategy) Research before signing a contract
I was referred to a potential client who has a very vast project in his mind. The potential client is sensible enough to understand the some of the technicalities and they even split the whole concept ...
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Can a software development contract have a minimum term stipulation?
Can a software development contract have a minimum term stipulation? Say, can a 'minimum' one year term after, say, one month of acceptable work be included in the contract?
I'm interested to hear ...
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Client refusing to pay, threatening to involve lawyer
After working on a freelance Graphic Design project in New York for an individual wanting to start a magazine I had to return back to the UK for visa reasons. I did not manage to complete the project ...
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How to charge for variable recurring services?
I'm writing a proposal to do some recurring work for a client. I'll be selling them services, packaged into a unit, and they may need none, or several of these units in any given month.
The question ...
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Getting payment outside of platform
If a client and freelancer agrees to pay outside of platform directly i don't see a problem.
But some sites just block the accounts ( they spy on your messages yeah).
Can anyone explain me how is ...
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Direct PayPal invoicing or contract through freelance website for new client
I applied for a job through Guru three months ago and then had a detailed conversation regarding the project. The client was happy with the rough solution presented by me but disappered after some ...
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Should I ask for a payment for the outline of a course I am writing?
I am currently working as a technical freelance writer for a client. He has asked me to write 10 lengthy articles (~2000 Words each) about a technical topic in a "tutorial" fashion. We agreed on a ...
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Payment to recruitment consultant for referring a consultant?
I have been working with a recruitment consultant (by this term I mean a person / firm which focuses on referring a candidate for an opening within a company). Until now, this had been for full-time ...
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How much percentage of profit should I get in an e-commerce startup? [duplicate]
I am a freelance graphic designer and very new to this field. I have a client who is starting an e-commerce commerce business. I am not working with him hourly or on flat rates. He is saying he will ...
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Signed Contract Unpaid Client just won pitch product @ Major TV Show
I have an unpaid signed contract from last year that still bothers me a bit.
I recently found out that this person has won a contest to pitch the product on TV. As I understand, financially, the ...
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What should I do if my ex-employer refuses me to pay? I live in Ukraine and the company he presents in USA
I live in Ukraine and the company he presents in USA. We signed a contract. How can I get MY money?
CEO of this company says that they o not owe me any money but according to signed contract they do. ...
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Remote jobs - how to charge clients?
Recently I have had quite a few remote jobs. By remote jobs I mean clients want me to travel more than 100km from where I do my business.
Generally consists of flights or driving.
Clients usually ...
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Should your clients pay for your payment transfer fees [duplicate]
I'm from a third world country where the luxury to accept payments from most popular payment gateways like PayPal doesn't exist to get payment transfers done cheap from my clients to me. I lose a ...
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Freelance science writer getting unpaid questions from editor
I am employed at a university, and moonlight as a popular science writer. The gig is pretty ok, pays well enough and the pieces are interesting to research and write. I am paid a fixed price on a ...
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How to deal with non-respect of payment-terms?
I'm working as a Freelance for 2 months (4 months remaining).
The contract between my headhunter and me mentions 3 entities:
My own company
Headhunter's company
End client's company
I just learnt ...
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189 views
Offering equity instead of pay — yes or no?
I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I was wondering if it is a fair exchange to offer equity instead of payment for services in business.
For example, "John" signs a contract stating ...
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Client doesn't want to pay the final instalment and tries to negotiate for new conditions
I'm an Australian independent contractor. I have a hard-to-work-with European client who I'm happy to let go (and fire). We agreed to work on an app which had been delivered early last year. The ...
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Client refuses to pay, now threatening to sue me for breach of contract
Okay, so, a couple months ago I started working with a man who needed help with his website. He had a very low budget, but seemed kind of desperate and was an older man who was basically banking on ...
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Small claims court for unpaid small invoice? (UK)
I'm having trouble getting paid for an invoice that a client owes me (just £100). He has started ignoring my phonecalls and texts and has never been very good over email to begin with.
I'm starting ...
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Learning that my first bill will be paid after two months instead of one
I have worked as a freelance for 1 complete month in company XXX (end client in their building).
In my contract, it's written that I will get paid 30 days after my bill transmission.
I just ...
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What does contingent payment mean?
I have received a contract that has a two part payment. I'm not sure what to make out of the writing as it says the second part of the payment is contingent upon (i) COMPANY closing of debt or equity ...
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Should I request a down-payment if I'm paid by the hour?
I'm considering a freelance offer for a startup in the US (I'm European) and I'd like to know if I should request some sort of down-payment for these initial hours.
Basically I don't want to get ...
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Can learning a new technology be a paid task for a client?
Recently, I started working for a client, and he found my work really excellent, and he's asked me to build a team and do a complete project for him.
I would like to learn iOS development, and build ...
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Enquiries from overseas
I'm not sure what it is about this time of year, but I often get people from foreign countries emailing me with work requests (I'm a UK based graphic designer).
I've only ever done work for those ...
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New project manager suddenly demanding source-code prior to payment
In a nutshell, I've been doing freelance iOS development for a client on an ongoing basis since 2013. Originally my main contact with the business was, let's say, Person A. Recently the client has ...
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Paypal disputes - how do I ensure I get my service deliverd or money back?
I paid a freelancer in full before he finished because he had some family problems. He has not delivered the website, he changed logins, took the website down and does not reply.
When in the ...
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How should I get paid
I'm about to develop an app for Android and IOS to a company of lawyers, the process, meeting, etc will be online since I don't live on their country.
The app only will be available on their country (...
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Should I discuss hourly rate before doing job or just do the work and let the client see the rate in the invoice?
I was introduced by an acquaintance to someone who has work that I could do. We both met in person to discuss my abilities and the type of work I would do. Everything went great. However, we never ...
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Client misled me on workload, and now I'm hosed
My client needed someone to gather confirmed residential addresses and put them into an Excel file, and then to upload that into BingPlaces to help out his business. We spent two days talking, with me ...
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How should I write a professional response for more money?
I have a client who agreed on a fixed quote with me. Unfortunately, it didn't work well because:
He wanted me to wait a year for him
He added new items to the project
He was planning the 2017, 2018 .....
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Long term client regularly pays late
I currently work full time for a client. I know that isn't the definition of freelance, but certain characteristics of our relationship lead me to believe that I'm still a freelancer. That being:
I ...
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Increasing rates and liability
I am a fast learner. Right now, I am a entry-level online marketer. I am trying to determine how much I should charge my client because their industry is different than the usual ones.
My clients are ...
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Essential elements on contracts
What kind of essential elements should I ask to have on my contract? I can't afford an actual lawyer right now so I am using online services. I will, of course, have them check it.
Anyways, here are ...
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Fees for travel
I work mostly from home, but I do have some clients that want me to commute to their homes for updates.
How should I handle these fees? I would love to hear from people who have experienced this ...
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Licensing a blog post to a company's blog
I have a blog post that brings 3.24% of visitors per month. Startup needs content for their starting blog and they want to license that specific post.
Have you ever done licensed a blog post to ...
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Should I charge my client for mistakes I make?
I'm starting out as a freelance designer (not long left university), thus I'm continuously learning new techniques and general business etiquette.
I've had a couple projects for clients but I've ...
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Client wants to sue me, but we haven't signed any contracts. Should I be worried?
I've been working on contract jobs for this client for about 3-4 years. He's never given me a W2 and just told me to file my own taxes as a freelancer.
I've worked on 3 projects for him, each time he'...
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Asking Clients to pay Advance Payment?
I am a freelance Android Developer in India. Normally I get local clients, from India only. When I talk about the payment, I ask all my clients to make 50% payment before initiating the project, ...
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Is it common to demand deposit/retainer to avoid payment disputes?
I am in a position where I am negotiating the terms of a contract with a client overseas. They agreed to biweekly (every two weeks, twice a month) invoicing and payment via direct deposit into my ...
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Do you charge full hour or 30 minutes for a task?
Client gives you a 10 minute task. Do you charge your client half hour or full hour. Client is not retaining you full time, pays you as 1099 contractor, and offers no benefits.
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Am I supposed to be paid even though my work isn't used?
There is a person I know that needed a logo for a game server, we talked and he found out that I have experience and have skills in Photoshop to make a decent logo, so he asked me to make a logo that ...
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Potentially unable to complete a project; what to do?
I am worried that I have taken on a major project (three months scheduled, tens of thousands of dollars, but it's already late) that I will be unable to complete. I am trying to figure out the best ...
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Better to go on payroll or act as a vendor?
I'm a software engineer doing some freelance work for a large organization. The process that they have in place, if I were to work for them as an individual, is that I'm expected to be put on their ...
