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For questions about paying freelancers, or how you should organize having clients pay you.

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What to do if you received a bad check as a freelancer, and purchased on behalf of the client?

Stop communicating with your client, because they will either ghost you (net positive), or make up excuses and keep abusing your trust (net negative). If you think they knew ahead of time they wouldn' …
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Currently in a new freelancing partnership, advice to develop business

I like the way you and your friend think and operate, starting so young and using both your talents! I hope for your sake, it lasts for many, many years. But you need to start setting some rules. Fir …
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How do repairmen bill for time and money spent on something only then to find out it's un-fi...

In my province, we have lots of mines and mills, and many of these sites generate tens of thousands of dollar per hour. The customers do not want any downtime whatsoever, but rarely want to pay for it …
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Paypal account is a barrier

Find another job, or ask if they can pay you via another method. There's a reason they are wanting to user PayPal, and if you can't use it, you can't come to an arrangement around that. Change the ter …
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Increasing hourly rate for an old client

Here's what I did, and you can tweak it as you need it. I sent out a letter (using postal mail, even for my local clients), explaining that the rates have increased for new clients, and my current cl …
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Is it a good idea to make the advance payment of a project non-refundable?

I would suggest to also make a Scope of Work document that includes milestone payments (i.e. 3 month project, pay 25% up front, another 25% at month 1 end, another 25% and month 2 end, and the final 25% …
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Young founder doesn't want to pay after 4 weeks - doesn't see value of system design/archite...

Walk away, and move on. This "founder" is going to take advantage of you at every turn. If they have a friend that can do it in two hours, I'd let them do it and let them know that future work is bill …
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Safest way to send Credit Card information when communication is through email

Moneris, Global Payments, Paypal, etc) take on the security burden, and deal with the encryption required. …
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