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Feels like this has become much more common recently.

Clients transfer retainer funds and then immediately want confirmation that everything landed and work can proceed, sometimes within minutes.

Completely understandable from their perspective, but operationally it creates a lot of manual checking when transfers are still pending, delayed, or sitting in approval queues.

How do other firms handle this once matter volume grows. Are teams automating confirmation workflows now, or is finance/ops still manually checking bank activity throughout the day?

Curious if other people notice patterns like this with long-term customers.

We’ve had a few accounts over the years where things slowly started feeling “off” operationally before any major issue became obvious.

Communication got slower, approvals took longer, routine admin became strangely difficult, timelines became less clear, etc.

Sometimes it turned out to be temporary internal reshuffling, sometimes not.

Interested whether experienced account managers/owners have learned to treat those kinds of changes as meaningful signals or just normal business noise.

Interested how other businesses handle this in practice.

Most clients pay late occasionally and it’s not a huge issue, but sometimes you notice a gradual change where payment timing keeps getting worse over a few months.

At that point, do you:

• tighten payment terms
• ask for deposits upfront
• reduce ongoing work
• stop extending credit entirely
• or just treat it as normal business friction?

Trying to work out where people draw the line between normal cash flow delays and a relationship becoming financially risky.

We’re looking at adding Pay by Link options to B2B invoices and trying to work out whether it actually changes payment behaviour in practice.

For teams that have tried both, did invoices get paid meaningfully faster compared to standard bank transfer/BACS instructions, or was the difference fairly small?

Mainly curious whether reducing friction at the payment step genuinely improves collections timing.

We build SaaS tooling for recruitment agencies and are looking at adding Pay-by-Bank to our invoicing flow so clients can pay invoices directly from their bank account.

Curious what timelines other teams actually saw getting a PIS/Open Banking integration production-ready.

Assuming:

• small engineering team
• existing billing/invoicing system already live
• hosted checkout / redirect flow (not building bank connections ourselves)
• proper webhook handling + reconciliation needed

How long did it realistically take from vendor selection to live payments?

Trying to separate “demo works in sandbox” from “fully operational in production with real customers.”