[NWH]

Of course you can dictate how you make your customers pay you all I’m saying is I’ve a lot that wouldn’t be up for doing it this way,if you have 1000s of customers this method leaves no chasing for money you can’t compare this type of business to a smaller-simpler business,i think the majority of us wouldn’t need to sign people up to this system.
I’m not willing to dictate to a customer that pays 100+ that they must go on direct debit in order for me to clean there windows,if it was 10-20 odd quid I couldn’t care if they don’t like it those 10a penny jobs lol.

[Arnold Palmer]

Got my email this afternoon...

[dazmond]

i dont know about you guys but i like a bit of cold hard cash too,a mixture,i like to always have at least £200-£300 in my main wallet at any one time and £100 in my work wallet.....i cant remember the last time i had to go to an ATM machine to withdraw money....

[Clever Forum Name]

All of my franchisee's have had the email now. Last one was in today.

So with some of these numbers flying around I've just had to sit down and work it all out now as I "sold" GC to all my franchisees!

I have done some numbers and on my highest earner he would be about £15 a week worse off now in February.  His round is about 50-60% on GoCardless. So yes he is going to be worse off but from my side of things it's ONE house a week extra if he really wanted to minimise the damage.

I have loads of ideas on how to offset this charge so my guys are not out of pocket so I am not worried now. I did see some numbers of £11,000 and started to poop my pants i cant deny that lol!!!!

If things get really bad I will pay the extra fees myself and I wont heat my garage and the Ferrari will just have a cover over it. 

[Richard Groves]

i dont know about you guys but i like a bit of cold hard cash too,a mixture,i like to always have at least £200-£300 in my main wallet at any one time and £100 in my work wallet.....i cant remember the last time i had to go to an ATM machine to withdraw money....

[dazmond]

 you should never have to rely on one payment method altogether IMO...as for the gocardless extra fees from feb next year its pure greed......

[Arnold Palmer]

you should never have to rely on one payment method altogether IMO...as for the gocardless extra fees from feb next year its pure greed......

As always, dazmond is the voice of truth and reason.

[Arnold Palmer]

I'm around 30% GC now, I've just run a win a free TV promotion to get people signed up, it's working well.

I'll be phoning GC tomorrow and considering my options going forward. At 1% GC were the only game in town. Not so much now.

[Smudger]

you should never have to rely on one payment method altogether IMO...as for the gocardless extra fees from feb next year its pure greed......

says the man putting up HIS prices again..... 

[deeege]

They’ve got a captive audience now, their prices will go up and up. Not a great idea to completely rely on someone else’s business for the smooth running of your own. Think I’ll stick to Bacs/cash.

[nathankaye]

Well, i also guess im a believer of the 50p price increase now 😁

[dazmond]

you should never have to rely on one payment method altogether IMO...as for the gocardless extra fees from feb next year its pure greed......

says the man putting up HIS prices again..... 

not put mine up for 3 years...some of the £5 rises will be on larger jobs ive never put up in 7-8 years.......most will be a quid or two which i think is fair.........the new gocardless fees are on a whole different level....

[Ooooooog]

I suppose you could call all get together and approach them, asking for a reduction? Or tell them you’ll f’off as one.

[deeege]

The problem is, even though the likes of Lee Pryor thinks his voice will carry some weight if he speakers to GoCardless CEO, the reality is they have over 50000 customers signed up and many of them will be far bigger and more valuable than his.

If they lose a few customers with this price increase, they’ll still be earning more from the fewer customers that that keep.

Where have we heard that before? 🤣

The price increase will be great for new business too, gocardless has been trending on all the FB sites and forums all week.

[Arnold Palmer]

Had a wee poke about at other options, GoCardless is still cheaper than everyone else, which tells me it's only a matter of time before their prices increase again I'm afraid.

[֍Winp®oClean֍]

BACS has been brilliant for me. Very little money owing at any time now, vast majority pay within 2 to 3 days. Lots of my customers pay this way now- even many older ones who I might have once thought there was no chance!!

[Jonny 87]

BACS has been brilliant for me. Very little money owing at any time now, vast majority pay within 2 to 3 days. Lots of my customers pay this way now- even many older ones who I might have once thought there was no chance!!

I’m much the same.

If fees start becoming about £100 a month for a sole trader I think that might push a lot to revert back.

I was thinking of pushing GC, but All my customers pay within 1-2 months. A lot pay within 7 days.

Mayb I’ll see how things pan out. 😬



 

[The Jester of Wibbly]

I push gc for every new customer from when I started using them as the main prefered payment option.

I have now decided to remove it as a prefered option and will only now use it to move slow paying customers to it.

Will also start to move exisiting customers back over to BACS slowly for the ones I trust.

[Simon Trapani]

I would just hold fire for now & see how it pans out. GoCardless may go back on it with enough pressure. Not just from window cleaners obviously.

[Arnold Palmer]

I would just hold fire for now & see how it pans out. GoCardless may go back on it with enough pressure. Not just from window cleaners obviously.

Not going to happen.