The Late Payment Kit
The exhausting part of a late invoice is not the writing, it is deciding, several times a week, whether it is too soon, too aggressive, or too late to say anything at all.
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What’s inside
- Seven parts in five files, led by the five escalation emails at Day 1, 7, 14, 30 and 45, written out in full as a printable PDF and an editable Word file you can paste straight into your mail client.
- Deposit and stage-payment conversation cards: six sentences for asking a new client for money up front, plus the four answers you will actually get and what to say to each.
- The payment clause builder, one tick each for due date, method and consequence, and an eleven-field invoice structure so an invoice cannot be misfiled, queried, or lost in a shared inbox.
- The stop rule decision sheet, six factors scored, with the three-sentence paragraph that closes the account cleanly, and a nine-sign client warning checklist scored before you take the work: three or more changes your terms, not your manners.
- A jurisdiction pointer sheet, five questions and the kinds of official body that answer them, plus the playbook that teaches all seven parts with one worked example carried the whole way through.
Who this is for
You are not bad at money. You are missing a paragraph, and five emails you have never had to write.
This is a book of words. Five escalation emails at fixed days, the terms that stop it happening again, and a rule for deciding when to stop, all written before you are angry, so you never have to compose them while you are.