Payment reminder generator for tradies
Put in the invoice, get the four messages that chase it — polite, from the business, dated to the days they should go out — ready to text or email. You never have to write “just following up” again.
Why these days
Nobody decides not to pay you. It drifts: the invoice arrives, it's meant to be paid, and then a week goes by and it's the thing at the bottom of a pile. A reminder isn't rude. It's the thing that stops a forgotten invoice turning into an awkward one.
- A week on. A friendly nudge, while it's still fresh and before anybody feels chased. Most people who haven't paid you simply forgot.
- Three days before it's due. The one that gets it paid on time — a reminder with the date in it, sent before the date, is a courtesy rather than a complaint.
- A fortnight on. A follow-up that asks a direct question — when will it be paid? — and opens the door to hearing about a problem.
- A month on. A final notice. It says what's happening plainly, once, and it's the last one you send before the conversation changes.
Send them from the business, not from you. The same words landing from your business name read as a process; from your own number at 9pm they read as a grudge. The messages above are written that way on purpose.
What a reminder can't do
It can't collect. Nobody can promise you every invoice gets paid, and anybody who does is selling you something. What a schedule like this does is separate the customer who forgot — nearly all of them — from the one who has decided not to pay, so the call you eventually make is about a genuine non-payer rather than someone who lost the email.
The two things that move payment dates more than any reminder are sending the invoice the day the job finishes and making it easy to pay. If you need the invoice first, the invoice generator makes a valid one in your browser.