Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

There are very few clients that pay up front for exclusive content any more. It was standard practice back in the days to put together a budget and get wired funds in advance when I shot feature movies for adult studios for VHS & DVD and commonplace about ten years ago in the early days of custom content production for adult web companies to get paid either half or full payment up front, but it's rare nowadays.

It's usually not a problem if a well known producer is selling content to an established company and they have a long business relationship. I don't even care of a client takes 30 days plus to pay as long as it's consistent and reliable. Hell, I even have one client that takes a year or so to pay but it's okay since they're paying me a lot of money for a single photoset that costs me essentially nothing to produce and the first year has long passed, so I get steady checks from them almost every month.