Backdating an invoice?

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Hi everyone I would appreciate your thoughts on this one.

I had a call from a customer who has recently purchased a house & the cooker hood extractor fan has given up.

So we agreed on a time when I could pop around and have a look.

Right at the end of the conversation he asked me if it would be ok to back date the invoice e.t.c a couple of weeks so he can get the previous owner to reimburse him for whatever it will cost for me to fix it.

Maybe I'm being silly, but something set an alarm bell off in my head for some reason.

What does everyone think?

 

[Andy78]

Of course alarm bells are ringing. He asked you to falsify documents so he could defraud someone out of money.

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Of course alarm bells are ringing. He asked you to falsify documents so he could defraud someone out of money.

That was my thinking

 

[ImpededLoop]

Of course alarm bells are ringing. He asked you to falsify documents so he could defraud someone out of money.

Agreed!

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

I told him I wasn't willing to do it

 

[Besoeker]

Don't do it.

 

[Rosco]

Big no,no if he's willing to drop someone else in the cart you could very well be next, either do it the correct way or run for the hills

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

He wanted me to have a look at it today, but as I'm busy I told him I could not do it until the end of the month, that's when he came out with the can you back date it to today question.

 

[Deleted member 72666]

That puts a whole different slant on it, sounds like the customer is being genuine to me, with you being busy and all!

 

[The Ghost]

Edit: Did not see previous reply

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

I told him I would only put a date that I completed the work.

 

[Deleted member 72666]

Why not put both dates on the invoice, one for the quote and the other for the work completed, 2 birds with 1 stone so to speak.That way the previous owner can see the problem was reported early doors.

 

[danzor]

If you send a quote over today it's dated on that day. Then do the job when it suits you, what's the problem?

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

It was the part about getting the previous owner to reimburse that I didn't like.

 

[Andy78]

It was the part about getting the previous owner to reimburse that I didn't like.

That's between those two. You could make a note on the invoice as to when the problem was reported to you and quoted for I suppose.

I initially thought the customer was asking you to backdate the invoice to before there was a problem with the equipment.