Longest time you have gone without invoicing.

[norrahe]

2 months, put all my invoices in on time, I was direct with clientco so they just sat on it and did nowt. I got to know who the finance manager was pretty quickly and after that things got paid on time

[TraceRacing]

7 months - he must have some warchest!

but he's a plonker too...

[Scrag Meister]

£100k isn't a huge amount for them though. When I was there, the department manager used to sit with me in a meeting and say "What's your rate again? Ok, 5 times that, times 26. Right, I'll get another purchase order for 6 months signed off.", so they've probably got the cash earmarked for him.

So your manager signed off more than 100k for 6 months of your time. I'm in the wrong IT area.

[Bunk]

So your manager signed off more than 100k for 6 months of your time. I'm in the wrong IT area.

Oh no, sadly 6 months of my time isn't worth 100k. I just meant that they allocate the budget upfront based on purchase orders so the money would be there for the guy. Didn't his agent hassle him or was he direct?

[MarillionFan]

2 years since I last invoiced.

[scooterscot]

I get tetchy by the third month.

[KentPhilip]

This raises the question: Do you know of any contractors who have just not been bothered to raise an invoice at all? Not because they chose to offer their time for free for any reason, but because they couldn't be ar*ed to raise it, ever.

My guess is that it must have happened once or twice, but is rare.

I know that the entertainer Benny Hill was so disorganized that after he died at home they found a number of envelopes at his home containing cheques for his work going back several months - he had just not been bothered to cash them.

[cojak]

Flipping heck that's worse than me!

I have got better though and am pretty dilligent when it come to reconciling income against work after I got bitten when I was a newbie.

[Safe Collections]

We have a small contractor invoice at the moment that dates to 2009.

Do we win?

[IR35 Avoider]

I was sort of in an opposite situation once. Several months into a contract, in which I had invoiced monthly and been paid promptly by the agency, I started getting client managers and the agency asking me various questions, in an attempt to drum up justification so that the purchase-order for my services could be approved by a higher layer of client management.

The agency were a preferred/sole supplier of many contractors to the multi-national client, so I suppose they just paid me on the assumption that the client would eventually be good for it.