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Used to think invoice software was a scam until one $49 app got me paid on a $3,800 job
I always just sent invoices as a PDF from my email and then waited. And waited. One guy in Tampa sat on a $3,800 invoice for almost 4 months. So I finally paid $49 for a basic invoicing app that auto sends reminders and has a pay now button. He paid in 2 days. I felt so dumb for fighting it so long. What else am I sleeping on that actually works for chasing money?
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noraroberts2d ago
My uncle ran a small flooring business for years and his whole system was just a spiral notebook and a landline. He would call people every Sunday night, like clockwork, and just chat them up before ever mentioning the money. Drove me nuts as a kid because I thought he was wasting time being nice. But here is the thing, he almost never got stiffed. People paid him because they liked him, not because of any tool. When he died we found stacks of those notebooks and hardly any unpaid balances. Now I use an app and it works fine, but sometimes I wonder if the reminders do the heavy lifting or if it is just that people need a nudge from something that is not a human they have to face. The app never feels awkward asking, which is probably the real trick. The software is just doing what a polite Sunday phone call used to do, except it does not care if the guy in Tampa screens the call.
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