I was thinking about all the complaints I read about on this forum regarding delayed payment of fees for services rendered and I suddenly remembered something. When I owned my auditing/investigation company (33 years, serving over 200 community banks, total), I had a staff of as many as 17 professional working for me, the CEO. Early in my entrepreneurial days, I realized that running payroll twice monthly was very time consuming and quite costly. I decided to switch to once monthly payroll and immediately operations improved. Actually, my staff quite liked it, in part, because they really liked seeing those big[ger] paychecks. They adapted quickly and all was right with the world.
While I will not take sides in the battle for timely payment from signing services, I will say that payment for services rendered in 30-35 days does not seem unreasonable to me. I suspect that accounts payable at a SS is a nightmare what with all the variables that come into play.
I want to get paid quickly and accurately, too. Maybe we could cut a bit of slack to those SS that pay promptly at 30 days. And, in fairness, I do not experience many of the remittance problems I read about on this site. So, good for me. I suggest keeping track of the good payors and stay on top of the bad ones after noting what I’ll call the “30-day rule”.
Incidentally, I’ve vigorously opined on the bad payors and offered a long list of suggestions on how to pursue and collect your long-delayed fees.
Just a different thought. . . 
