Please Help Me For Payment In Arrear

[greatwallemb]

Hi Everyone ,

We are embroidery digitizing company , All our job is offering digitizing service , Now real goods .Now a big customer realy frustrate me from last year ,who always don't make payment in his promise time , The arrear soon run into a large sum , When i request him to pay , He always said next day or this weekend , But every time he eat his words, Yes , I Knew due to the recession , Everyone is tension in economy , So in the beginning , i allow the payment to fall into arrear about one month ,then 45 days , But 70 days ago , He still did not pay us ,

Sometimes , I want to distrain his designs till get payment , But he rascally said if i don't send him all his designes , He will not pay us all the bill , You know , It is a large sum for me , Again i give in , I have thought many times , If i get all money he owed . I would NEVER do business with him again , who knows when i can get my money ?

What can i do for him ? What is your suggestion ?

any comments is very appreciated

sincerely

Jack

[Choice Checks]

I print business check, and sell accounting software. I always have my customers to make payment before any work is done. That way i have to worry about billing and waiting on the payments. We don't offer a net 30, that keeps less stress down on the accounting, and in our checking accounts. Its good that you can help the customer out, but its good for changes as well. We are all in business to make money, and if a customer don't make a payment, it hurts and can be a huge disaster. Just as a recommendation to you

[kendvp]

I believe you have 90 days to file a lien. If day 70 has past, then I would get an attorney now and review your options. Don't wait too long on something like this.

[Chimpie]

Originally Posted by kendvp

I believe you have 90 days to file a lien. If day 70 has past, then I would get an attorney now and review your options. Don't wait too long on something like this.

I concur. I would contact your attorney now.

Do you have any work outstanding for your client? If he calls back looking for it I would politely mention that you are waiting for payment from the previous work, that you will not complete or deliver any more work until payment is made, and that if he has any questions or issues with this to contact your lawyer and give him the name and number.

Sometimes just say you have a lawyer is not enough. By giving a specific name and number usually gets the ball rolling a little faster.

Keep in mind however, that if you bring in a lawyer you will probably never do business with this client again. But then again, that may not be a bad thing.

[peterp]

Have you been paid yet?

If not, at this stage of the game, about all you can do is plead and ask them how would they like it if people did that to them.
Or shame them by asking, "this is how you do business?"