To a first approximation, when a client doesn&#x27;t pay on time, I stop working for them. Clients who don&#x27;t pay are worse than one less client because there&#x27;s no income and there is an allocation of resources...both directly and to collections.<p>There are cases where I have had a long standing relationship with a good client who was experiencing short term problems and let me know about it and we worked something out. Those cases are very rare and required an existing good relationship.<p>On the other hand, people who started out slow to pay never get better.<p>Good luck.