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Poll: When are your invoices generally paid? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Ana Vozone 
Local time: 14:07
Member (2010)
English to Portuguese
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I have clients who pay on the same day they receive my invoice and clients who can take as long as 2 months.
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| Up to a month | Dec 7, 2023 |
In general, up to a month after delivery, but some dear long-standing customers (4) pay the day after receiving my invoice.
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Alex Lichanow
Germany
Local time: 15:07
Member (2020)
English to German
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It depends on each customer and their payment terms. Most will pay within a month, even though some have a 60-day payment term. One is a complete wildcard that can pay the next day or use their 60 days. Another customer needs constant reminders after 67 days.
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Ilde Grimaldi
Local time: 15:07
Member (2003)
English to Italian
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| end of following month :-( | Dec 7, 2023 |
Some of them in Europe: cumulative invoice at the end of month and then 30 days, so "More than one month" 
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 15:07
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| 90% pay within 3 months | Dec 7, 2023 |
90% of my clients pay within 3 months. About 50% pay within 2 months. About 20% pay within 30 days.
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Baran Keki
Türkiye
Local time: 16:07
Member
English to Turkish
I don't know if this is purely my experience, but the agencies using the management system called XTRF are usually bad payers. Somehow that system doesn't work as efficiently as it should when the payday comes.
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Zea_Mays
Italy
Local time: 15:07
Member (2009)
English to German
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| 90 % up to 1 month = end of following month | Dec 7, 2023 |
also because I am used to issue all my invoices at the end of a month.
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different client, different payment terms
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Marjolein Snippe
Netherlands
Local time: 15:07
Member (2012)
English to Dutch
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Baran Keki wrote:
I don't know if this is purely my experience, but the agencies using the management system called XTRF are usually bad payers. Somehow that system doesn't work as efficiently as it should when the payday comes.
My experience is just the opposite. My clients who use this system always pay punctually as agreed. That can be after 2 weeks or after 2 months, depending on the client, but these clients are certainly some of my most reliable in terms of payment.
I used to have one client (not using XTRF) that needed reminding every time. I felt more and more annoyed about this and started accepting fewer jobs. I have not heard from the m for a while now, so I think I have let myself drop off their list. The others all pay within 2 months, most within 1 month, some within 1 or 2 weeks.
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1 of my fabulous agency clients pays on the nail every single time after 30 days, and has done for the past 18 years.
The others are ALL late, unreliable, erratic, quibbly, make mistakes, "forget" to log the invoice or only pay when reminded multiple times.
90 days is the norm and has been for years. Constant stress.
New career, new field, new industry for 2024 I hope.
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Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:07
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
Claire Titchmarsh wrote:
New career, new field, new industry for 2024 I hope.
Always interesting to hear this. Please do report back in 12 months, one way or the other!
Dan
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Baran Keki
Türkiye
Local time: 16:07
Member
English to Turkish
| Best of luck! | Dec 8, 2023 |
Claire Titchmarsh wrote:
New career, new field, new industry for 2024 I hope.
I hope that after a 20 year translation career you have enough soft skills left to go into another career.
Personally, I've always likened translation to the mafia (I really hope that the Italian colleagues here won't take offence and ask me to explain myself): once you're in, there's no way out!
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| What are these soft skills of which you speak? | Dec 8, 2023 |
Baran Keki wrote: Claire Titchmarsh wrote:
New career, new field, new industry for 2024 I hope. I hope that after a 20 year translation career you have enough soft skills left to go into another career. Unfortunately it has turned me into a misanthropic shut-in, unable to function in the real world  But hopefully this is me in 5 years' time, not a pc or software program in sight: https://hermitary.com/around/?p=1987 Personally, I've always likened translation to the mafia (I really hope that the Italian colleagues here won't take offence and ask me to explain myself): once you're in, there's no way out!
Let's not go there, Baran. Not after the other thread I posted on today
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finnword1
United States
Local time: 09:07
English to Finnish
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| Around 30 days | Dec 14, 2023 |
I made a histogram showing the numbers. There was a nice bell curve centered at 32 days, but another clear, much lower peak at around 70 days. Then it tapered off toward infinity (a few customers never paying)
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