Payment for / with / to us

tinanam0102Hi teachers,

If I ask a customer to pay what he owes our company, which preposition should I use? Thanks.

Could you settle the payment for / with / to us?

Thank you.

Regards,

Tinanam

In the US, customers have usually 30 days to settle their account balance. After that, if he doesn't make full paym

Hi Dimsumexpress,

Thanks for helping me. Your advice

1. Do you mean I shouldn't use "settle payment"?

2. How about "settle account"?

Regards,

Tinanam

Tina,

My wife is a receivable accountant for a tech company and part of her job is to go after the accounts that are overdue or in delinguency. I asked her what would be the language used to persue overdue accounts. She told me that in any business transactions, good and services are exchanged for monetoary gains. If one fails to pay the balance owed, he simply is in default and consider

Hi Dimsumexpress,

My superior always think I use ambiguous language to purse the money our customer owe us. I'm not working in a big company, and most customers are the friends of my boss (the owner), and I feel uncomfortable asking them to pay in certain time frame. They always pay but just a little longer than the said invoice due date.

I always think "Please ......." is som

Please is the "magic word". In some contexts, like, "please pick up after yourself", what it really means is "clean up after yourself if you don't mind, your mother doesn't live here".

Hi Dimsumexpress,

I diagress. Please forgive me. You mentioned your wife is at Account Receivable, Could I know if her company also has an Account payable. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Does Account Payable controls payments to the suppliers, and Account Receivable collects money from your customers? Or Account Payable and Account Receivable are just two debit and credit on the