Let’s be honest. Asking clients to pay up on invoices can be awkward even when the payment is late and you have every right to apply some pressure. On the one hand, you upheld your part of the ...

To get clients to pay invoices on time, the tactics that actually work are: set clear payment terms before you start, invoice immediately, make paying as easy as possible, and automate polite ...

They can ideate boldly, meet unreasonable deadlines for clients, scramble breathlessly so they never miss a payroll and dream the biggest dreams you ever saw. But for some reason, small-business ...

The weeks post-tax season hit differently when you're running a business. You've just filed—or scrambled to file—and somewhere in the back of your mind is a stack of invoices that should have been ...

If you run a small business, then you understand how important it is to get paid on time. In fact, it’s one of the most important aspects of running a business. After all, how can you pay for your ...

It can be frustrating when you make it your main objective and goal to meet or even exceed the deadlines your clients have placed on the projects they need to be completed -- only to find that when ...

Attorneys generally bill time in tenths of an hour, dutifully keeping for clients a contemporaneous record of everything from conversations, to areas of law researched, to summaries and outcomes of ...

When a client starts sending fake invoices to vendors and customers, the instinct is to reset the password and turn on multifactor authentication. That's not enough.

If you’re familiar with the basics of small business accounting, then you know that signing a new client doesn’t mean you’ll get their cash right away. If anything, you might have to wait several ...