Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I've got to have another bite at this ...
I absolutely detest the "chasing up payments" ie invoice follow-up.
I do my very best to pay suppliers as soon as I can [our present record is less than five minutes from receiving a pro-forma !].
So, I find it highly annoying & frustrating in the extreme that some customers delay paying for spurious reasons, or tell porkies as to why they can't part with the "bakeesh".
Recently, because of a missing payment, I was within 24 hours of telling my team to "down tools" for one job !
To the point I sometimes wish the grant-awarding body would pay me directly, in bulk [as per the 50%,40%,10% formula] ...
Had a customer recently tell me that they would like to receive one invoice every 6 months. Fine, just buy one thing every six months and job's good. But no, he wants to buy shit every week but only pay for it every six months. Never mind that I have to pay my suppliers every 14 days, one minute late and we lose our IATA licence. I wonder if he has the same arrangement with Tesco, the six monthly billing bullshit?