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Late Invoice Escalation
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-17
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-freelance
Collect overdue invoices with a graduated escalation ladder — friendly nudge to firm notice to work-stop to final demand, each with send-ready wording and timing, plus the prevention terms that stop the next one. Use when asked my client hasn't paid me, write a payment reminder email, invoice is 60 days overdue what do I do, or client is ghosting my invoices. Produces the situation read, the escalation ladder with dates and verbatim messages, the work-stop decision point, and the payment terms that prevent reruns.
What to give it
▸Invoice facts — amount, issue date, terms (net-15/30), days overdue, and whether a contract/PO backs it
▸The trail so far — reminders sent, any client responses (a "sorry, next week!" and dead silence are different ladders)
▸Relationship state — ongoing work happening now? future work wanted? (leverage and tone both change)
▸The client's shape — enterprise AP department (slow by process — chase the process), small business (chase the person), or a known cash-crisis (a payment plan beats a write-off)
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Every rung has a date and verbatim text — a ladder without dates is a mood
✓Rung 1 is genuinely warm — no passive-aggressive garnish
✓Consequences are previewed exactly one rung before execution, and executed on schedule
✓The work-stop is stated as procedure, not punishment
✓Prevention terms appear — the best collection is the deposit you took up front
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not send rung-1 wording six times — repetition without escalation teaches that lateness is free
Do not threaten what you won't execute — one hollow threat converts the whole ladder to noise
Do not vent in writing — every message should read fine attached to a small-claims filing, because it might be
Do not keep delivering new work into an unpaid account past the stop trigger
Do not skip the read — an enterprise AP maze, a cash crisis, and a ghost need different ladders, not one angrier email
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
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