The day I stopped sending invoices on Friday afternoons

I used to fire off invoices right after finishing a job on Friday, thinking I was being efficient. Then I noticed a pattern: those Friday invoices took an average of 14 days to get paid, while Monday invoices came through in 5. One client even told me they just file Friday emails for the next week and forget about them. Now I hold all invoices until Monday morning, and my average payment time dropped from 12 days to 7. Has anyone else found that the day you send matters way more than you think?

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colegarcia12d ago

Totally agree. I started sending invoices on Tuesday mornings instead of Friday and saw payments go from 10 days average to like 6. Clients just seem more likely to actually pay when it's not buried under weekend stuff.

joseph4812d ago

Man that is such a good point. I did the same thing and it was like a light switch flipped. Switched from Thursday afternoons to Tuesday mornings and my average payment time dropped from 12 days to around 7. It's crazy how much of a difference a couple of days can make when people aren't already checked out for the weekend. I think it's because Tuesday is when they're actually digging into their email and not just skimming or putting things off.

webb.hannah12d ago

Not my experience @colegarcia, Friday emails actually worked better for me.