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Getting paid, with the arithmetic shown
Short guides on invoicing and collecting money, written the way we write the rest of this site: with the numbers, the sources, and the parts where somebody else is cheaper.
TaxS corporation or LLC? The question has a wrong premise, and the answer is a numberAn LLC is what your state registers. An S corporation is how the IRS taxes it. You can be both — and whether you should comes down to one salary and one subtraction.
Getting paidCard or bank transfer? On a $5,000 invoice it is a $140 questionTwo buttons on the same invoice, and one of them costs twenty-nine times the other. The arithmetic, and when the expensive one is still the right call.
Getting paidWhat you stop paying when the invoice lives somewhere elseA subscription before the first invoice, a seat for every person, and a fee on money that never arrived. Three costs worth looking at again.
TaxSales tax on an invoice: what we do, and what is still yoursWe will bill it and collect it correctly. We will not tell you the rate, track where you owe it, or file it. Here is exactly where the line is.
Getting paidBank transfer is cheaper. Here is what it costs you that a card does notFour days, a payment that can fail after it looked paid, and disputes with no appeal. The honest list, so the cheap rail does not surprise you.
InvoicingFour reasons an invoice does not get paid, and what to put on it insteadMost late invoices are not disputes. They are invoices that were easy to put down, and the fixes are boring and they work.Send your first invoice today
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