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Most shared hosting services I have used so far have a nice "account suspended" message when you forget to pay your invoice in time, enough to shake your soul to the core LOL!

You should apply that too and your serious customers will become extremely careful after the first shock...trust me! :D

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You can totally do this with Braum ! A simple warning message. But if you don't have access to hosting or code anymore, and you didn't install Braum before the delivery, you can't even display this simple message, and client may vanish with your work without paying

That's why a friend of mine once told me "always work with a signed contract in your hands!"; I now get what he really meant when he shared that advice with me. Many customers don't want to deal with legal stuff and prefer to pay you on time; else, if you go with verbal agreements, good luck with that :/

I 100% agree with that statement. However, in France at least, even with a signed contract, if your client doesn't pay, it will be really long and costly to get back the money with the legal way. And you're not even sure it will happen :(

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