If payment is not made within the credit period. Prompt action taken now may prevent future problems. Businesses in financial difficulties tend to pay first the creditors who are most active in claiming payment. Of course legal proceedings can be brought by the creditor itself rather than by instructing solicitors, and indeed many larger businesses employ staff for this purpose. However if you are inexperienced in this field of work it will be more cost effective in the long run to employ a good firm to do this for you.
Court actions can become time consuming and complex.
Many firms of solicitors offer a fixed fee debt collecting service at very low prices. Also of course if a defence is filed, the solicitor will be well placed to act for you thereafter. There are also specialised debt collecting companies who will often offer to collect debts on a no win no fee basis. Some of these companies are very good. However all too often their main method of operating is by intimidation of the debtor, whereas in our view, the proper method of debt collection is via the courts.