How do I collect money from a non paying client?
Let it go and find new work. You’re not going to get any more money than the amount that trickles in. If you absolutely want to make sure you’re not getting screwed, ask that they create some kind of monthly financial statements and insist on getting a copy so you can make sure that they’re giving you a fair amount for their ad revenue. The lesson learned is not to create anything that runs off ad revenue if you need money quickly. There’s absolutely no point in going after them in any way. If they don’t have the money they don’t have the money. Notice that they were doing this in their spare time; you should have been doing the same. One of my former bosses got burned all the time by situations like this and finally learned his lesson. If you put a lot of work into this website, can you translate it into something else? If it took you a long time, I assume that’s because you were coding features which might be useful for new clients. Strip all of the customized content for this site o