How are you actually keeping track of who paid and who hasn’t yet when running your own thing?
Bit of a random one but curious how people deal with this in practice. Spent years in corporate finance setting up financial systems, then moved into my own projects and didn’t expect this part to feel so messy ... accounting is fine, that’s not really the issue, it’s more like:
- knowing who actually paid vs who just should have paid by now
- noticing when someone starts paying slower than usual
- realizing a bit late that i should’ve followed up earlier
Right now i’m basically checking emails + stripe + a spreadsheet i put together. It works… but also feels pretty easy to lose track if i’m not checking all the time.
Probably overcomplicating it, but curious what others actually do:
do you track this somewhere properly? or just check when something feels off? or not really worry about it unless it becomes a problem?
Would be interesting to hear how people handle this in small setups (freelance / small agency etc)
Happy to share the spreadsheet if anyone’s doing something similar