[bobplum]

hi everyone
trying to find out about switching custys to standing orders
anyone use them
any advice welcome
bob

[Niall McAllister]

I think for domestic custs setting up a S/O for the window cleaner would be overkill.
what about paypal or online banking

[Window Washers]

I have loads of people on standing order, the reference number is there customer id on wcp

it is not overkill it is good business 

[vacman]

i would love to use S O but i have trouble keeping track of the odd few people i work for who pay by online banking...how do you know who has paid and who has told their bank to hold payment? Is there a quick & easy way of knowing?

[bobplum]

I have loads of people on standing order, the reference number is there customer id on wcp

it is not overkill it is good business 

how do you go about setting it up and any down sides to it
bob

[Window Washers]

i would love to use S O but i have trouble keeping track of the odd few people i work for who pay by online banking...how do you know who has paid and who has told their bank to hold payment? Is there a quick & easy way of knowing?

Easy way to see is look on your online banking.

Answer to Bob, they set it up themself or just can make up a form they sigh and send to the bank or you can, which gets the bank to set it up.

it really is simple.

Downside they have full control if they owe more you cannot up the standing order. (this is where direct debit comes into its own but from what I here is quite hard to get set up for smaller comapanies (this could be wrong) I just did not ever look into that, just something I heard of a window cleaner

[vacman]

Yeah, but if you have loads of people paying you week in week out, is it not time consuming to check each one has paid? And what happens when they pay but you can't carry out the work for whatever reason?

[Gleaming windows]

And what happens when they pay but you can't carry out the work for whatever reason?

Exactly.

Some may say it works, not in my business it wouldnt.

[vacman]

And what happens when they pay but you can't carry out the work for whatever reason?

Exactly.

Some may say it works, not in my business it wouldnt.

Well no, not when you get locked on site for the day  Glad to hear you got out in one piece.

[Gleaming windows]

   I'd have got out earlier but I was trying to set up a standing order 

[Window Washers]

Yeah, but if you have loads of people paying you week in week out, is it not time consuming to check each one has paid? And what happens when they pay but you can't carry out the work for whatever reason?

there bill would be in credit, it does not take long at all, trust me cheques take long I hate them. but it is eithwer them or SO, I will get round to adding paypal but need to get pqd machine sorted first to take money there and then chip and pin and over the phone 
Online banking is the way forward, postal strike who cares already paid

And the way the post men keep walking out thinking it is clever to drink beer when they are working, there will be no post office soon, only then will people that say online banking dont work will start to listen

I will retire now......