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7 Premium WordPress Plugins You Can Sell To Your Clients For Passive Income

7 Premium WordPress Plugins You Can Sell To Your Clients For Passive Income

by | Blog

The nature of WordPress development services is centered around a one-time revenue model. It takes a lot of patience to educate clients about the need for hosting, management, and other services they need.

Client retention and recurring revenue generation are difficult for most WordPress agencies and freelancers. To a very large extent, this is the main reason behind the feast and famine cycles experienced by WordPress developers and agency owners.

To make more money from your WordPress development services, we’ve listed out the best premium WordPress plugins you can upsell to your clients. This practice can be beneficial both for your agency and your client since they end up splitting the cost, not having to pay full price.

So you would end up earning a lot more than you think, selling services like security, speed, etc.

10 extra plugins, hosting, services – approx – $190/month
With this model, you only need 40 clients to build an ARR (annual recurring revenue) of almost $100k.

Yeah, that’s right. 40 clients is a doable number, now that you know it.

From experience not all clients are at this price point, we charge anything from $2.000/month for managing big WordPress sites to little as $39/month for our smaller projects (for example go.publishingaddict.com)

If you have been in the WordPress space for a while, you’ll already know what developer rights are. They are also called white-label or unlimited licenses.

With that, you can have a single premium WordPress plugin with developer rights and then continue selling to as many clients as possible without paying additional fees.

If you don't think that is a fair deal to your clients, that’s fine just be honest with what you do, you can just add these tools to your arsenal and charge a premium for a complete enterprise WordPress management package.

Depending on the nature of your client's business and how you do it, you may also have the opportunity to start earning recurring revenue from WordPress clients.

Upselling vs Cross-Selling WordPress Plugins To Clients

Before you get into the main action, it is important that you understand the difference between upselling and cross-selling. This will make it easier to promote your offers to the most qualified clients and with the right contexts.

Upselling is the simple practice of promoting comparatively high-priced offers, services, or products exactly when they are in purchase mode.

The main thing is to highlight the core value of the higher-end offers while comparing it with the lower-end offer they wanted to buy. Above everything else, understanding the clients’ type of business and current needs will help you to upsell premium WordPress plugins in a way that delivers value to your clients.

Cross-selling is about selling complementary products that are closely related to the exact needs fulfilled by the first or original product being bought. Again what matters most is understanding the client's needs and the context.

Finally, timing is another important variable. The meaning is that you have to present or promote your offer in a timely manner when the desire for purchase is intensely strong.

If you’ve got the best offers but present them at the wrong time, it wouldn’t matter. Generally, with these sorts of extras, you either show them at the beginning or just wait a few months until you build trust and are able to show them that you are a partner they want to keep around.

Best Premium WordPress Plugins For Selling To Clients

Please note that the sole purpose of upselling or cross-selling is to increase the value that clients will get from your main WordPress development services. If you do that properly, you'll have the opportunity for a higher client retention rate and possible recurring revenue. Let’s dive in.

UpStroke WooCommerce Upsell Plugin

Whether you are building a new WooCommerce store or managing some stores for existing clients, upselling is one untapped opportunity to make more sales while growing revenue. In most cases, the impact on average order value (AOV) is very easy to measure. The interesting thing is that if you can help your clients earn more money through upselling eCommerce plugins, you’ll have a better chance of retaining them.

UpStroke: WooCommerce One-Click Upsells

This plugin called UpStoke is just one of the best WooCommerce Upsell plugins meant for that. With the developer license which goes for $199 per year, you can install on 25 client websites. The single site license goes for $79.

Using this premium eCommerce plugin, you’’ become able to increase the average value of your typical WordPress development services.

Among other things, this plugin has A/B testing features and some useful add-ons for boosting eCommerce sales. If you upsell to 2 – 10 WordPress clients, you can start earning recurring revenue from their renewal fees, depending on the agreed price.

WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping

Shipping is one of those essential but complex processes in building a profitable eCommerce business. Unfortunately, if the complexity is too much and overwhelming for your clients’ prospective buyers, they are likely to experience an above-average cart abandonment rate. This is where the Table Shipping Rate plugin from WooCommerce comes in.

WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping Plugin

After proper installation, the WooCommerce Table Rate Shipping plugin allows store owners and WordPress development agencies to manage complex shipping processes with variables like product weight, price, location, and order value.

The plugin goes for $99 per year which means you could be earning recurring revenue from your WordPress clients if you upsell them successfully.

WebARX WordPress Security Plugin

Hey, let's face it, if you leave your WordPress client website unprotected and something bad happens, that leaves a bad impression on you or your agency. Even when a client isn’t aware of the best way to protect their website and business, it is your duty as a professional to provide security or advice as much as you can.

WebARX Security plugin for WordPress

Based on what I have seen, most clients who are serious about their business will happily pay for the WordPress security plugin.

In addition to standard WordPress website security, WebARX provides plugin vulnerability monitoring, SSL/TLS monitoring, certificate expiration monitoring, cloud-based firewall management as well as blocking malicious bot intrusion.

Depending on your needs and the size of clientele, you can choose from their monthly or annual pricing plans.

WP Rocket Caching Plugin

Background aside, most WordPress clients are not aware of how website loading speed affects both user experience and conversion rate. Especially in the eCommerce space where a single site can have thousands of product pages images, WordPress caching plugins like WP Rocket is very important.

In technical terms, WordPress caching plugins help enable websites to load requested pages without tasking or sending requests to the website server.

At the time of this writing, over 1 million websites are using WP Rocket to optimize their page loading speed. With a developer license which goes for $249 per year, you can install it inside unlimited websites. If you notice that some existing clients do not have a caching plugin, consider upselling them the plugin when you are selling other services.

Now, just pause and think about how much recurring revenue you can earn with the unlimited installation license. You can even use this tool to serve clients that are looking for WordPress website speed optimization services.

Fluent Forms WordPress Plugin

WordPress form builder plugin is one of those essential tools used by almost every kind of business you can think of. From lead generation to customer surveys, WordPress plugins like Fluent Forms can help you deliver lucrative value to your clients.

With the conditional logic features of this plugin, you can help your clients streamline seemingly complex form fields and inputs.

Depending on your client's needs, you can have it integrated into platforms like Slack, MailChimp, Zapier, HubSpot, and Twilio. The price for unlimited website installation goes for $199 per year. You can buy once and upsell to your clients in a bundle.

Also, I would mention the lifetime model

Fluent Forms WordPress Plugin

Pretty Links Pro

Here is a URL shorter and link cloaker used mainly by affiliate marketers. If you have established a reputation for building affiliate websites for clients, this plugin could be a perfect upsell offer at different stages of the relationship.

Some of the core features include selective keyword linking, advanced link redirect and automatic cloaked link generation. In essence, it is one of the best affiliate link cloaking wordpress plugins in the market.

Pretty Links unlocks more affiliate revenue from your existing and new content automatically

Having been around in the market for a while, you can be sure that this premium wordpress plugin has been proven to deliver real value over time. The only downside I found is that the developer license can only be used for installation of five websites.

Updraft WordPress Plugin

While you are busy doing your thing somewhere, a misguided hacker could be gaining an intrusive access to your client websites or your own. Based on the last report i found, wordpress has around 74 different versions with a sizable number of websites using each of those versions. The thing is that each upgrade takes security vulnerabilities into account but most clients are not updating their websites as promptly as possible.

Unfortunately, when the most common wordpress attacks like cookie stealing, URL injection and brute force attacks happen, many people that fail to backup their websites lose a lot of value.

UpDraft Plus

Interestingly, WordPress backup plugins like UpdraftPlus were created to prevent such losses. This makes it possible to get back and running even when the attacks happen.

Like many other wordpress backup plugins, UpdraftPlus has both free and premium versions. If you are serious about building a business around your wordpress development skills or you are building a wordpress agency, getting the premium version is another way of earning more money from wordpress development services.

With the developer license, you can upsell this plugin installation and configuration to 35 client websites. They also have an unlimited installation plan that goes for $195 per year. Upsell this to 10+ clients and you’ll start earning recurring revenue.

Final Words

The most important point to acknowledge before you leave is that plugins are essential to every business website built on wordpress. The ones you choose to upsell will depend on the nature of each client’s business. From ecommerce to consulting and local service businesses, you can find multiple opportunities for upselling premium wordpress plugins to your clients.

As you can see, most of these essential wordpress plugins come with annual subscription plans. Your task here is to pick the specific plugins that are relevant to your prospective or existing clients’ businesses.

Think of ways to upsell and cross-sell these tools during the proposal stage or to existing clients. To make it even more valuable, try to package more than one plugin in a bundle offer. If you are charging around $2000 and upwards per project, you can begin to create an additional recurring revenue stream from the same client relationships that often end when the wordpress development project is over.

Overwhelming Positive Mojo

Overwhelming Positive Mojo

by | Blog, Updates

The Divi Community.

Wpelo is very close to the launching date, a big part of any such launch is proper feedback and testing.

For testing out the tool, we had the following plan:

  1. Find a few actual clients that need a new website – to build a few new websites using wpelo system – to get actual feedback on the other side of the process
  2. Find a few agencies/freelancers and give away the tool for free for 12-months in return for their feedback.
  3. Go back with that feedback, improve and launch a stable version, wpelo version v.1

Initially, we were hoping for 10-20 people in total to test the platform.

However in less than 24 hours after posting on a Facebook group called “Divi Community” we were greeted with overwhelming success.

350 Agencies Signed Up – a 22% conversion rate.

Here is the message I left on the group.

I run a digital agency; were design WordPress sites for clients. We have built over 1000 WordPress sites, most of them in Divi.

I charged for a Divi site from €150 to €50.000.

Anyway, I have been doing this for a long time now; I first purchased “elegant themes” in 2011 

Most things have changed a lot in the last years, except for the actual website creation we wanted to build a solution that makes the whole experience a more streamlined, efficient process – for both sides.

Both for clients and us (agencies & freelancers)

We would love to give our product for free, 12-month unlimited access to members of the Divi Community group in return for feedback. The product is not live; we are finishing the website content in the next few weeks. (website built with Divi and divi.express)

WPELO is a plugin meant for web agencies and freelancers, so if there is anyone interested, please join here and send me a PM.

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https://wpelo.com/launch

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Edit: We spent a lot of time understanding the actual process of building a website for clients, and we have concluded that the old way of doing it is fundamentally flawed. Businesses, even though some don't realize it, depend a lot on the websites they have, and a great site pushes their business higher and faster.

Edit: The tool goes live internally with an actual client this Tuesday, we have taken a client in, with the main goal to have the first live run (hotel website) it will be built in divi. Full disclaimer we will tell the client about the fact that we are testing the tool on them.

(please don't critique the home page content/design it's more of a place holder  we spent a year developing the plugin but we only started the website a few days ago)

Conclusion

Looking back, just in the last 10 years of client emails/calls I've spent explaining and reporting little things in the website design progress, over and over again I think I could have saved months. We are more motivated than ever to put this live and use it our selves.

 

50 Top WordPress terms to share with your curious clients

50 Top WordPress terms to share with your curious clients

by | Blog

Are you a WordPress developer? Being a WordPress developer comes with its own sets of responsibilities. With WordPress, you are not only mastering a new interface, but you are also mastering a new form of language for website development. Whether you wish to upgrade your glossary or enlighten the curious minds of your clients, we aim at sharing some of the important WordPress terms that you should know about.

Here are some:

  1. API –Standing for Application Programming Interface, APIs help in connecting one interface in WordPress to another for ensuring the seamless connection of one application to another for hassle-free moving.

 

  1. Admin Bar –It is referred to as the sticky toolbar located in the top-end section of the WordPress dashboard. The Admin bat at WordPress is known to provide easier access to other important parts including new comments, available updates, live website, along with providing a quick-add capability for posts, media, pages, and so more.

 

  1. Autosave: When you are creating a new post or page, WordPress automatically saves the progress of the particular user every two minutes. At the end of the WordPress session, only the last version of the page that has been autosaved remains.

 

  1. Back End: Anything that is present behind the scenes of using WordPress is referred to as the “back end.” As a WordPress developer, the back end might refer to the database and control panel of the interface.

 

  1. Block: The all-new version of WordPress is known to make use of blocks for building smaller components of some pages –right from paragraphs, including texts to video players, and everything that comes in between.

 

  1. Block Editor: Gutenberg –the former name for WordPress Editor, is a block-based builder tool for WordPress pages. A dedicated block is added to every component of the page. Every block type is known to come with a unique toolbar for customizing the styling element of the given page.

 

  1. Blog: It is referred to as the section of the WordPress page wherein website content is written as well as published to a particular feed on the website. Businesses are known to make use of blogs for sharing ideas, case studies, tutorials, and various other kinds of content. In WordPress, the users can create content for the respective blogs through the Posts interface.

 

  1. Breadcrumbs: It is a form of secondary navigation that is available on the top-left corner of the post or webpage in WordPress. The main role of breadcrumbs is to reveal the trails that have been followed by the users on the given website. It allows them to backtrack easily. Breadcrumbs can also be utilized for displaying the level of progress made by a user in completing the given form.

 

  1. Category: It is a taxonomy that is usually applied to WordPress posts. Categories are usually high-level topics that allow users to organize the content in a better manner.

 

  1. Child Theme: WordPress developers are known to regularly update the theme files. Therefore, it might become difficult for WordPress users to customize something more than the basic WordPress settings. For WordPress users who are looking forward to updating or altering the theme beyond basic functionality, they can consider making use of a child theme. A child theme would allow the users to customize and apply the changes outside the source code.

 

  1. Classic Editor: It was the default post along with the post editor for WordPress users before 2019. The classic editor is known to include the options of a code editor along with a visual editor. The users can revert to the first-hand classic editor with the help of a plugin.

 

  1. Code Editor: It is referred to as the editing interface in WordPress that allows the users to write as well as edit content with the help of HTML.

 

  1. Comment: It is referred to as a feature that can be easily turned on as well as off for the WordPress blog. Using this features, the users are enabled to submit comments to come towards the end of the posts.

 

  1. CMS –Content Management System is the specialized platform that allows all users across different levels to create as well as publish content on their own. WordPress is a leading example of CMS.

 

  1. Control Panel: It is a leading administrative tool for domain management and web hosting. In WordPress, cPanel is one of the most popular Control Panels.

 

  1. CSS: Referred to as Cascading Style Sheets, it is a programming language that most WordPress developers make use of for creating the overall structure as well as the layout of the website.

 

  1. Dashboard: In WordPress, the first screen that appears in front of the users upon logging into WordPress. The users can customize the dashboard to ensure the display of the widgets while creating their own plugins.

 

  1. Database: It is the area in WordPress wherein data, as well as the content of the website, are stored on the given server. MariaDB and MySQL are the most common types of databases.

 

  1. DNS: Referred to as the Domain Name System, it is the process that helps in translating a website from the IP address that is used by the browser into the URL entered by the visitors.

 

  1. Domain Name: It is the actual address or name of the website.

 

  1. Excerpt: It is a specialized feature in WordPress available for the posts. The excerpt is known to appear at the top area of the blog post in the form of an RSS feed, a summary, or in search results in case no other metadata is available.

 

  1. Featured Image: It is a singular image that is attached to a web page or a blog post. The featured display is displayed alongside the short snippet or the title of the post in the major blog feed. It is also known to appear in the RSS feeds, along with when being shared on social media.

 

  1. FTP: Standing for File Transfers Protocol, it is referred to as a way of exchanging data between computer systems. There are multiple FTP clients like FileZilla that serve as tools for enabling the WordPress users to upload the respective files on the given servers.

 

  1. Gutenberg: It was the name that was given to the new WordPress editor during the beta phase in the form of a plugin.

 

  1. Hosting Provider: The websites on WordPress.org are self-hosted. This implies that the owners are required to purchase web hosting from some external source. A reliable hosting serviced provider is then expected to lease the available space on the servers to the respective WordPress users requiring some space to store the websites along with its relevant data.

 

  1. HTML: Referred to as Hypertext Markup Language, it is the basic markup that lets the web browser know how to display the content on the given web page. It is typically different from any programming language and helps in creating specialized functionalities. HTML is simply known to arrange as well as format the images along with texts on the page –just like Microsoft Word.

 

  1. IDE: Standing for Integrated Development Environment, it is referred to like the piece of software that allows the WordPress developers to write as well as edit the code along with debugging common website issues while testing the new features and functionalities.

 

  1. IP Address: It is a numerical identifier for both the web servers and computers online. Web browsers make use of this ID while retrieving a website for the subsequent users. While each computer system tends to have a unique IP address, this might not be the case for the web server hosting multiple websites from some shared locale.

 

  1. JavaScript: It is a programming language that allows the web portal to become highly interactive while responding to visitor engagement.

 

  1. Media: It is used to refer to the folder wherein files get uploaded to WordPress. Some of the accepted file formats are PDF documents, JPG images, MP4 videos, and MP3 audio clips.

 

  1. MySQL: It is a famous DMBS (Database Management System) that is utilized by most of the hosting service providers out there. It features a highly organized structure making all data from the web portals easy to be searched as well as managed by the end users.

 

  1. Navigation: It can be sometimes be confused with the menu. However, navigation is known to encompass all the terms including a specific link on a web portal that helps in directing the visitors from one page to another.

 

  1. Open Source: It is a type of software solution that is open to the public for the purpose of viewing, modifying, and editing at the same time.

 

  1. Pages: The Pages section of the WordPress site is known to contain all subsequent pages of the website. In the given section, you can create a new page or even edit the existing pages.

 

  1. Page Builder: It is a plugin that serves as a vital tool for masking the WordPress editor while allowing the users to create as well as manage the respective websites in the visual interface. Using this tool, the users are given the ability to drag & drop the essential elements while controlling various other features of the dashboard.

 

  1. Permalink: It is referred to as the combination of the slug and the URL for indicating where a particular page can be found. WordPress is known to give the users the option of simplifying the overall structure of permalinks for easier recall of the visitors.

 

  1. PHP: It is defined as the server-side programming and scripting language. The WordPress developers are known to make use of PHP codes for building WordPress themes, plugins, and core.

 

  1. Plugin: It is a specialized add-on feature for WordPress that allows the users to include new, advanced features or modify the existing functionality without using a single line of code.

 

  1. Post: WordPress users can create as well as manage the existing content for news or blog section of the WordPress websites with the help of Posts.

 

  1. RSS: Standing for Really Simple Syndication, RSS is known to generate a summary of the blog while serving as a feed with links to the individual WordPress posts. RSS for every website can be found by including “/feed/” to the given URL. RSS followers, as well as aggregators, can use the given URL for remaining updated as new content gets published.

 

  1. Shortcode: It is a special type of embed. As far as the difference is concerned, a shortcode is a series of PHP that allows the WordPress users to embed some interactive elements into a proper web page.

 

  1. Tag: It is a form of taxonomy that is applied to the posts in WordPress. Tags are known to work as keywords. Multiple tags can be assigned to a single WordPress post.

 

  1. Theme: It is a WordPress add-on that enables its users to alter the interface of the respective websites without using the code for doing the same. WordPress is known to provide a free theme by default. However, the users of WordPress can choose to have thousands of free as well as premium themes. However, at a time, only a single theme can be used.

 

  1. Update: In WordPress, the update is known to refer to a specific code that gets patched or changed by the WordPress developers of WordPress core, a theme, or a plugin. When updates are available, WordPress is known to alert the users with a specific notification while giving permission for a single-click update such that there is no requirement of coding or installation.

 

  1. URL: Standing for Uniform Resource Locator, it is the full address of a given web portal.

 

  1. Visual Editor: In WordPress, it is referred to as the editing interface allowing the users to create content that appears similar to how it will look on the front end.

 

  1. Web Server: It is the infrastructure owned and maintained by a hosting provider while leasing out the same to the respective website owners.

 

  1. Widget: These are small-sized, self-contained blocks that the users are known to place on the respective websites.

 

  1. wp-config.php: This file is the one that is generated once you install WordPress.

 

  1. wp-content folder: It is the folder that is known to contain website content, media, themes, and plugins of the WordPress website.

 

With every WordPress term in your mind, make the most of the same for your website development!

Overdue Invoices

Overdue Invoices

by | Agencies, Blog

Overdue Invoices? Here’s How to Politely Ask for Your Money [Templates Included]

As a web designer or freelancer, you work hard to provide your customers with the best services within the established timelines. You never skip a deadline; yet, some customers seem to forget to pay you on time.

Late payments are more than annoying. When you run a small business, proper cash flow is essential to make ends meet.

According to the U.S. Bank, 82% of small businesses fail due to poor cash flow, and according to Entrepreneur.com, it is estimated that small businesses across the U.S. have $825 billion in unpaid invoices.

Asking for late payment can be intimidating, but if you don’t want to make the statistics, you should learn how to deal with non-paying clients. Here are a few expert tips for managing your invoice system and deal with bad customers.

Discuss Costs and Payment Terms Upfront

Late payments can have various causes; sometimes, a client might have genuinely forgotten to pay. In other cases, clients refuse to pay if they think you billed them too much for the service provided.

It is crucial, therefore, to let your prospects know upfront how much you charge for your services and what are the payment terms.

At this stage, you can also disclose any late payment fees you might charge and legal proceedings they could face if you don’t receive your money on time.

Also, set up a clear payment policy. For instance:

  • 5 days late – you get a warning
  • 10 days late – you get a late payment fee
  • 20 days late – you lose service
  • 30 days late – legal action

 

Bill Upfront

Invoicing and managing your payments is perhaps the most intimidating part of freelance work. Should you ask for upfront payments? Bill after the work is done? When to send an invoice?

According to a web design agency co-owner, Mat O’Flynn, the only way to mitigate late payments is billing upfront.

Some customers may be wary of sending you money before receiving work, but you can always provide some reassurance by encouraging your prospects to read testimonials or reach out to previous customers.

Invoice Immediately After You’ve Handed In the Work

If you find it hard to quantify the value of a project upfront, Greg Waldorf, CEO of a popular invoicing app, recommends sending an invoice as soon as the job is completed.

According to him, this practice not only helps in preventing late payments. As a small business owner, you might be overwhelmed by tasks and may forget to send the invoice if you postpone it.

Chasing a late payment for an invoice you never sent can only hurt your reputation, so you should at all costs avoid it.

Don’t Shy Away

Admittedly, chasing a late payment is one of the most intimidating tasks. If sending reminding emails wasn’t hard already, some clients might even ignore electronic correspondence.

If this happens, you’ll have to call them.

Be polite and simply remind them about the overdue bill.

In some cases, the clients will pay right away. In others, you might have to arm yourself with patience and call them for days before achieving the result.

Whatever the situation, don’t lose your temper and don’t give up. Call daily and politely remind your clients that they owe you money.

Chasing Late Payments Step-by-Step + Late Payment Email Templates

No matter how hard you try, some clients will just not pay. Here’s a quick guide to preventing and chasing late payments.

Step 1 – Send a payment reminder before the due date

The #1 error you can make is to wait until the due date before reminding your clients they have a bill to pay. Sure, you want to be nice, but you probably also need your money on time. And a way that works in most cases is to simply remind your clients they have an outstanding invoice.

Depending on your payment policy, you should send your payment reminder at least a few days before the due date.

Keep the email short and professional. Use a friendly tone, but don’t deviate from the topic, and also include a link or a copy of the invoice for quick payment.

Here’s an example email you can use:

Subject: Your/Your Business Name: Invoice [invoice reference] Overdue Payment Reminder

Body:

Hi [recipient’s first name],

I hope you are well.

We have yet to receive payment for the pending invoice [invoice reference] for [invoice amount] that was due on [due date]. The invoice is now [number] days overdue and is becoming really problematic for us.

The current invoice amount is now [invoice amount + late payment fees]. I’ve included a link/attachment to the invoice for your review.

If we have not still received payment by [final date], we will have to escalate this invoice to our legal team.

Best regards,
[your first name]

 

Step 2 – Follow up when the invoice is a few days late

If your client ignored your first message and didn’t pay by the due date, send a follow-up email a couple of days after the due date.

Here’s an example:

Subject: Your/Your Business Name: Invoice [invoice reference] Payment Reminder

Body:

Hi [recipient’s first name],

I hope you are well.

I am writing to notify you that we’ve not yet received the payment for the pending invoice [invoice reference] for [invoice amount] that was due on [due date].

It would be much appreciated if you could let me know when I can expect to receive the payment.

I’ve included a link/attachment to the invoice for your review.

Best regards,
[your first name]

 

Step 3 – Follow up reminder when payment is late overdue

After you have sent the second email, it will look unprofessional to send another reminder before the invoice is late overdue. You should decide when to send it based on your terms and conditions.

For instance, if you give your clients up to 30 days to pay, this email should be sent around this point. If your client ignores this reminder too, kindly remind them that you’ll take the case to the small claims court.

Here’s an example of late overdue payment reminder:

Subject: Your/Your Business Name: Invoice [invoice reference] Overdue Payment Reminder

Body:

Hi [recipient’s first name],

I hope you are well.

We have yet to receive payment for the pending invoice [invoice reference] for [invoice amount] that was due on [due date]. The invoice is now [number] days overdue and is becoming really problematic for us.

The current invoice amount is now [invoice amount + late payment fees]. I’ve included a link/attachment to the invoice for your review.

If we have not still received payment by [final date], we will have to escalate this invoice to our legal team.

Best regards,
[your first name]

 

Wrapping It All Up

Implementing a clear payment strategy when setting up your new business is key to getting paid on time. Setting terms and conditions and following up with email reminders is crucial for your business’ success.

So what do you say? How do you handle late payments? Tell us in a comment below and before you go, share this article with your freelance friends.