{"id":67,"date":"2021-07-14T13:53:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T12:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.91.100\/wordpress\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:25:24","slug":"2-4-handling-client-money","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=67","title":{"rendered":"2.4 Handling Client Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Handling client payments on account.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since we no longer operate a Client Account, we will ask for at least 50% up front, making sure that we at least cover our expected outgoings in the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a quotation\/pro-forma invoice is sent to the client for work to be commenced, payments on account are taken using the following methods:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Credit card\/debit card; or (preferably)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bacs transfer direct into our account. (Since Barclays have withdrawn the Client Account facility, the payments will have to go into our main Sterling account).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the client wants to pay by Debit\/Credit card, we will need to send a payment link. The procedure for this is set out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=92\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"92\">2.4.1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Handling any Incoming Payment<\/strong>&nbsp;Please see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=94\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"94\">2.4.2 Allocating Received Money<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Receiving Cash Payments<\/u><\/strong>&nbsp;Cash payments are generally inconvenient for us for several reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The bank charges us a not inconsiderable sum to receive cash into our account;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Holding large amounts of cash in the office is highly undesirable;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Transporting large amounts of cash to the bank exposes the carrier to unnecessary risk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accordingly, we will not accept cash payments larger than \u00a3200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/?page_id=19\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"19\">Back to&nbsp;General Office Administration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handling client payments on account. Since we no longer operate a Client Account, we will ask for at least 50% up front, making sure that we at least\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/825"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelovens.co.uk\/OfficeManual\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}