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Vent: my unpaid invoices finally hit $4,000 and that number woke me up
So I sat down and added up every invoice that was past 30 days and it came to $4,000 across 6 clients. That is more than my rent and I just kind of stared at the spreadsheet for a while. The weird part is I knew some of these were late but I never saw the total in one place before. Two of them are from a guy in Sacramento who keeps saying the check is coming and one is a web design gig from March. Last week I finally sent a late fee notice to all of them and 3 paid within 2 days. Did anyone else have a number sneak up on them like this, and did late fees actually work or just make clients mad?