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Hayatullah Dadkhah
 
Muriel Vasconcellos (X)
Muriel Vasconcellos (X)  Identity Verified
Estados Unidos da América
Local time: 13:22
Espanhol para Inglês
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No Oct 17, 2021

Payment turnaround time isn't that important to me.

Josephine Cassar
Liena V.
ahartje
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Thayenga
Ian Keith Jones Williams
Christine Andersen
 
Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray  Identity Verified
Holanda
Local time: 22:22
Membro (2006)
Inglês para Africânder
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No Oct 17, 2021

Do you accept lower rates in exchange for a shorter payment time?

No. It affects my eagerness to do work for that client, but it doesn't affect the rate that I charge. Surely, only translators with serious cash-flow problems would accept lower rates for quicker payment.

I have had a client that offered this in their system. The mechanism deducted 0.5% (half a percent) from the invoiced amount if the translator chose to receive payment 5 days earlier than the stated payment date. This was not a permanent setting: the translator would get a notification about 7-10 days before the payment date, with a link to click if he accepts the arrangement for that payment.

But I suspect the poll asker had much larger discounts (e.g. 10%) and much quicker payments (e.g. 30 days instead of 60, or 15 days instead of 30) in mind.

Kay Denney
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 21:22
Membro (2007)
Inglês para Português
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No Oct 17, 2021

My longest-standing customer (an agency) has been paying like clockwork the day after receiving my invoice. Then my regulars have quite different payment schedules from 1 week to 30-days and everything in between. Big international organizations have their own payment schedules and some follow rather complex procedures but like Muriel I’m happy to wait (provided they keep on sending work my way).
 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
França
Local time: 22:22
Francês para Inglês
. Oct 17, 2021

Those who drag their feet and require systematic reminding don't get priority with me, those who pay promptly do.
It so happens that the prompt payers are also pleasant and reasonable about deadlines, while those who require reminding are less organised, and more likely to impose stressful deadlines, so I'm not actually sure how important the time they take to pay is in my decision to prioritise a client.
 
Ian Keith Jones Williams
Ian Keith Jones Williams  Identity Verified
Espanha
Local time: 22:22
Francês para Inglês
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Why? Oct 17, 2021

Why should I? I should charge them interest if they take a long time. Most of my clients are legally required to pay within 30 days and payment practices seem to have improved . Most do, give or take a few days. Some even pay within fifteen days or immediately.

Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
 
Mario Freitas
Mario Freitas  Identity Verified
Brasil
Local time: 17:22
Inglês para Português
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No Oct 17, 2021

There are several factors that may lead to a discount (not lower rates), and faster payment may be one of them. All this is negotiable. If you are too strict about your rates, you'll have trouble negotiating and closing deals. This is valid for any area and any product or service. Harvard Manage Mentor teaches us very well how to do this type of negotiation, but it also teaches us that being inflexible is a negative thing, and makes you lose business.
 


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