Standard Terms & Conditions Of Sale

This has been asked about a fair bit and on talking to the guys this morning I realised that many people were operating without standard T&Cs.

TBH, in the world we live in these days, this is essential and I would suggest that you get these printed, after you alter them for your own business, on the back of your job sheets or suchlike. It will offer you an enormous amount of protection when things go wrong.

Note: I didn’t say if, I said when.

That’s because over the years I’ve learned that they will go wrong at some point and, if you don’t cover yourself in advance you only have yourself to blame. An hour or so now and free advice could save you hundreds or even thousands of pounds down the track. This is even more important where you do contract work.

I would also like to thank Jackal hugely for his advice, help and assistance in doing this for you guys. As ever, he’s been a top gent and done work on this completely FOC for us and steered this in the right direction so that, when you have a problem, you’ve got more than just a fighting chance.

Once you’ve had some time to digest this and I have time to type it out, I’ll give you some real world examples (with all names and faces removed ;)) of how you would apply certain conditions in your T&Cs to save you cash or get back money you’re owed that, otherwise, you wouldn’t have a hope in hell of ever seeing again.

These were obviously written for ISE and have been added to, altered, amended as we learned and the law changes or whatever. If there’s an update then I will try to remember to update and advice here as well.

You will have to take out the “ISE” and insert your own business name but, asides from that you should be good to go.

It’s saved as a Word document.

K.