Had a chat with a guy from Germany about payment terms that totally flipped my approach

I was complaining to this German guy I met on a freelance forum about how US clients always drag their feet paying. He said in Germany they just send a bill with 'pay within 14 days' and that's it, no questions asked. Hit me hard because here I was letting people take 45+ days when I could just... set a firm deadline. Last month I tried it with a new client from Ohio and they paid in 11 days flat. Has anyone else found that foreign clients are way more strict about their own terms but expect us to be pushovers?

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