To ensure you don’t fall foul, here are my top tips on managing your payment terms if you have not already done so.

Put all your term and conditions on your quotations. Spell out the payment timescales be they 7 days, 14 days or 30 days etc. You may also like to arrange stage payments such as Invoicing for the production work and the final invoice after the editing is completed. Another common approach in other industries is to get a % payment up front before you even lift your cameras out of their cases.