Tips for Tradies: Dealing with Late Payments, Bad Clients, and Unpaid Invoices.
When an invoice remains unpaid, it can create a ripple effect on your business—delayed cash flow, stunted growth, and more. Tradesmen are entitled to payment as agreed upon in the contract. If no terms are mentioned, the standard payment period is typically 14 days from the date of the invoice.
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Identifying potential problem clients before accepting a job is crucial to avoid these complications. Feed4ward can help you make informed decisions by offering real-time reviews and feedback from fellow tradies.
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The best way to handle a dodgy client is to identify the issues early and know when to walk away. The longer you engage with a problematic client, the more time, energy, and money you risk losing. Feed4ward, a tradies app can avoid these situations before they begin.
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Client disputes are a still common challenge for tradies. Issues such as delayed payments, unclear job expectations, and disagreements over work quality can waste time, damage reputations, and affect cash flow.
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While you might not always be able to speak to a client directly before starting work, you can read real-time reviews from other tradies. Feed4ward offers just that. By using Feed4ward, tradies can make smarter, safer choices by relying on up-to-date reviews from fellow professionals who have already worked with the client.
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As a tradie, your time is valuable, and dealing with unreliable clients only wastes it. Late payments, job scope issues, bad clients can cause unnecessary stress and financial strain. That's why we are starting to talk about something new: Feed4ward.
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Late payments are a real pain for tradies. Picture a carpenter finishing a deck—$500 job, solid work. Weeks later, he’s still out of pocket. Or a plumber who sinks $2,000 into a fit-out, only to watch the client vanish. It’s not rare.
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Every tradie has dealt with it. You finish the job, send the invoice, and… nothing. Calls get dodged, emails get ignored, and suddenly, the client who was in a rush for the job isn’t in a rush to pay.
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As a tradie, you've probably had your fair share of difficult clients. The ones who promise to pay, then drag their feet on payments. Or the ones who waste your time and leave you hanging without ever paying up.
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