The term is agreed. The date is not.
Thirty days is an agreement, and most of your customers keep it. What was never agreed is which day. Day 20 and day 45 sit inside the same account, and you find out which one afterwards.
Across Australian business the average payment term is 29 days and the average payment time is 27.2 days. Most customers pay inside the term. The trouble is that inside the term is a three week window.
Source: Payment Times Reporting Scheme, Cycle 10, August 2026.
The invoice goes out as something your customer can act on the moment they have reviewed it, rather than a PDF that waits for a decision to be made somewhere else.

