[CLEANCARE WC]

Is there any way you can check if a customer has set up a standing order before the date it hits your bank

i.e. you pick up a new customer 3 monthly and you say payment terms are cash/cheque on first clean the and a  S.O. must be set up for 12 weeks time.

The customer impressed by your service, sets up the S.O. as agreed within a couple of weeks of the first clean..
Is there any way of checking that they have set it up? or do you have to wait & wonder if they have actually done it until 3 months later?

Any info appreciated.

[Tom White]

The only way you know your customer has set up a standing order is either by asking, "Have you done it?" or when the cash hits your bank.

[CLEANCARE WC]

The only way you know your customer has set up a standing order is either by asking, "Have you done it?" or when the cash hits your bank.

Hmmmn back to the drawing board! Thanks 

[Tom White]

I get paid a few monthly standing orders for jobs I clean monthly.  If I'm ever late, ie receive two payments without a clean, I refund a payment through their letter box in cash when I tip up to clean.

It requires the customer to trust you.

For the rest, and I have a couple of houses that are let and the customers don't live in the area (one in London the other in New Zealand), I just e-mail them and they pay me by bank transfer.

The others I just leave a note and they pay me by bank transfer.

I advertise this on my 'Your Window Cleaner Has Been' chits and quite a few pay this way now.  I get paid quicker from the bloke who lives in New Zealand than Mrs Smith who lives down my street.