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by Spoom
4218 days ago
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If you're a contractor / freelancer rather than an employee, you can do at least two things: - Get paid some percentage up front - Set out milestones throughout the project where you get paid an additional percentage If they don't pay when a milestone is completed, development stops. This limits your risk exposure to a percentage of the project rather than the whole thing. If you are in fact applying to be a remote full time employee, I would do my research on the company before applying. Has anyone else had payroll problems with this company? The same freelancer rules above apply though; if they start to miss paychecks, you start looking for a new job. |
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To add to this, I would ask new clients for a few days pay up-front as a sign of good faith.
There were several clients who ran away, absolutely outraged, they'd never heard of anyone asking something so ridiculous in all their life!
Running away screaming was very rare though, and by some good fortune, all of my regular clients were an utter delight to work with.
Stick to your guns though: get paid up-front, and invoice as often as you can. (Weekly in my case).
Offering clients a small discount for paying for a good chunk amount of development time in advance also worked well for me. (Lowest I'd typically go was 2 months with a 5% discount).