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Knowing that clients will pay is what gives a business faith to continue, builds trust in a community and allows a business to plan ahead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Personally, if I don&#8217;t have the cashflow available, I don&#8217;t order a product or service, and always pay invoices I recieve. And I believe this is how most people run their businesses; it is sad to think we need systems to force some people to pay up, though, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pay what you owe, and you&#8217;ll know what&#8217;s your own. Benjamin Franklin Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another. 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