This brief but comprehensive 19-page guide comprises 21 chapters, each focused on a specific technique to achieve prompt payment while avoiding some clients’ efforts to avoid payment altogether, typically by filing a negligence claim. Just a few of the new guide’s chapter titles include:

Rely on Effective Billing and Payment Language in Your Contract,
Consider Carrots and Sticks,
Be Mindful of the Client’s Payment Language,
Obtain a “Creditworthiness Guarantee,” 
Use Lump-Sum Pricing More,
Post Bills to a Client-Accessible Extranet,
Use a Well-Designed Invoice,
Restrict Use of Deliverables,
Obtain Cash on Delivery, and
Require Collectors To Abide by the Ten Commandments of Effective Collectors.

Invoices, billing, collections, reimbursement, payments, lien, payment methods, provisions, deliverables