We can make payment of your fees to someone else’s bank account, but we recommend against this because there might be problems that are difficult or impossible to solve. For example;
- What if that person does not give you the money?
- It’s likely this will become our problem (you did the work, but did not receive payment for the work) – even though it’s not our fault.
- We will not send the money twice!
- What if they give you the incomplete bank details, and the transfer does not work?
- If the bank details provided were incorrect, the payment may be returned to us, less bank fees. For example, we send €500, but only €475 is returned because there were €25 deducted in bank fees. When we have the correct bank details, we’ll only send €475 – you’ve lost that €25! (if we made a mistake, we’ll always pay for that)
- What if they charge you a fee for receving the money?
- We advocate that you pay any “out of pocket” fees for them if they provide proof
- But we think it’s unfair to charge anything else
- This is up to you to decide, but at the very least, you should have a conversation with them before we send the money, so you know what to expect.
However, we understand that sometimes this is necessary, despite these risks.
We’ll ask you to sign a form acknowledging the risks in this approach. You’ll then need to provide the bank details of your friend to us. Direct them to our Supplying bank info page, have them pass the info to you, then let us know.
We strongly recommend you organise this at least a week before your shoot date, to allow for complications to be resolved.
[For AW BV staff, the form for models to sign is located here, called Form for models to sign if they want AW BV to send model fees to someone else’s bank account]
