I've got a really unhappy IT contractor friend who has not been paid

**northernladuk** · 20 July 2015, 11:04

Holiday time? 5k for 3 months? 5 children? Gave notice?

Why isn't your friend posting this for a start.

A lot doesn't sound right about this at all.

**vetran** · 20 July 2015, 11:05

The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Regulations 2013 - Pay on Time

and take the accusations off websites as that is not going to help his case. Especially when the Lawyers get involved.

**Unix** · 20 July 2015, 11:07

Originally posted by unhappy View Post

Hi

My friend has done the website/CMS for Tradenext Ltd but they have not paid his last three months' invoices totalling about £5,000.

The work he has done is live w ww.tradenextglobal.com and the work has not been contested.

He worked there for about a year, and worked a full month after giving his notice, even though he was owed over a month of holiday time.

What should he do to get the money from them?

I want to help him - he has five young children!

Thanks for your help

Shutdown the website, they will payup in minutes.

**FatLazyContractor** · 20 July 2015, 11:16

Originally posted by unhappy View Post

I want to help him - he has five young children!

Does anyone else here know this friend of unhappy? I think I do ...

**FatLazyContractor** · 20 July 2015, 11:17

Originally posted by Unix View Post

Shutdown the website, they will payup in minutes.

This has to be the advice of the day

**DaveB** · 20 July 2015, 11:37

Looks like they are an Indian owned firm which may explain the relatively low money for the job (by UK standards) and the issues with payment. Any redress for the OP's "Friend" may be limited depending on where the work was done and who for...

Minor point of interest, the "live" version of the site pulls in an image from the "Dev" domain on the server and the Dev site itself is fully visible and actually loads and runs better than the current live one.

The Google cached vesion is older still and contains different meta data text including the Indian references.

No idea f this helps the OP or not, but it passed a few minutes for me.

**unhappy** · 20 July 2015, 12:23

Thanks for all the replies - this site is much busier than I expected

Firstly I want to say that my post is all true - yes it does sound a little unlikely I guess. He really is too busy to write on here. I'm glad that I am writing the message now, as they can't sue me for asking questions on here I expect?

I love the comment about how some of the code is still on dev - classic contractor support site content!

Back to original problem - is it easier to simply file a small claims court thingy? That was my real question? Surely you guys get this problem quite often? What are the first steps for this please?

**cojak** · 20 July 2015, 12:57

If they are based in India, there are no steps. British law has no jurisdiction over there.

Edit: Oh they are based here.

3 COPTHALL AVENUE LONDON EC2R 7BH

Read this : http://forums.contractoruk.com/accou...-problems.html

So do what the original poster of the thread did: read the link above that vetran posted, do what it suggests and tell the agency about his rights and the fact that he will get a debt collection agency involved.

They may just give him his money.

**DaveB** · 20 July 2015, 13:08

First step is to check his contract and see what it says about payments. If the client or agent are not paying up on receipt of invoices and / or timesheets then options depend on what jusridiction it falls under and whether the actual end client is a UK ltd co or not. If they and your friend is also UK based they need to go have a read of this:

Guide To Claiming Interest & Compensation on Invoices Paid Late - Pay on Time

Lots of info their on late payments legislation in the UK and how you caqn use it to chase overdue payments and get interest and other costs added to the outstanding amount before going down the Small Claims route.

If either the CLient or the friend are outside the UK, then they are probably out of luck.

I've got a really unhappy IT contractor friend who has not been paid