Late Payments and How to Handle Them for Freelancers

How to Handle Late Payments for Freelancers: Practical, Step-by-Step Techniques to Get Clients to Pay Their Bills

Created by: Jack Carfrae
Founder, Bite-Size Freelance

What Will I Learn?

• Understand how to effectively approach one of the single biggest headaches for freelancers: late payments.
• How to put yourself in a position to be less affected by late payments, so you don't have to deal with them from a place of desperation.
• In-depth analysis of how to communicate with clients about overdue invoices, with an emphasis on diplomacy and results.
• Extensive downloadable materials include real emails that solved freelance late pay issues, which can be used as templates.
• Real-world examples of how NOT to deal with late pay. Freelancers who got it wrong, fell out with clients, and didn't get hired again.
• How to prepare your invoices to combat late payments, including a downloadable invoice template.
• Next steps to retrieve funds via legal means and analysis of client insolvency.

Requirements

• No prior experience needed. This course is open to all.

Target audience

• Existing freelancers of all types and levels who are either struggling with late payments or want to better prepare themselves to handle them.
• Aspiring freelancers who want to start their career on the best possible footing and understand how to tackle late payments from the very beginning.
• Anyone who's having problems with getting paid and wants some common sense, diplomatic techniques to get results.