Re:Ask HN: How do your enterprise customers pay you?
by sswaner on Thursday February 19, 2015 @07:36PM
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We (enterprise buyers) would never agree to that. In all contracts I work on, there is a lengthy back and forth between lawyers working out the terms. Something like a premium fee if we are late on a net 30 payment would be a deal-killer. We know it takes a long time to process payments. I don't intentionally delay, nor am I encourage to delay - it is just that the wheels of SAP turn really slow.
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Re:Ask HN: How do your enterprise customers pay you?
by beagle3 on Friday February 20, 2015 @12:21PM
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This is one of the things where mathematics gives way to linguistic manipulations.
If you add a "late fee", it's a no go. But if you get an "early payment credit that will appear on your next invoice", it is ok.
Don't know if this is still the case, but for a long time, merchants couldn't add a "credit card fee" (even though they pay it at 2-3%). However, they could give a "cash discount".
Mathematically (and financially) equivalent. Yet somehow different.