To not pay this invoice from nursery?

I can't believe all the posters suggesting you just pay it. Of course you don't need to pay an invoice from years ago where there is no proof you've used the service and not paid for it. People must have money to burn if they'd just blindly pay.

Really not normal to have memories of precisely when your children were in nursery as hoc 20 years ago but you’d be perfect as a witness in a cold case. What were you doing on the 3rd of June 1993? Well, funny you should ask but that day I a remember I had a dentist appointment.

"check your diary to see what you were doing on any days they've suggested."

This was hilarious 😂 😆 😂 😆..as opposed to the nursery ensuring they invoice people correctly and promptly???

Did you usually book ad hoc days by e-mail or verbally? Is it that you're not sure if she was actually there or you're not sure if you already paid for it? I think it's reasonable to ask for evidence re both. If you had something like Tapestry then they may well have taken photos of her and should be able to produce your invoices too.

🤣🤣🤣 who keeps a diary and especially from two years ago!

Really? A nursery sending a bill 2 years later when the said nursery is known for sending inaccurate bills all the time???

How are you working confident that the book they have sent is accurate? And no it is unacceptable for a nursery or any company for that matter to send a bill for services rendered 2 years later.

Google Map History? What the fresh hell is this all about?

God I feel old...

Am I in the minority of having everything written down on an actual physical calendar in the kitchen? I could only tell you what I've done this year
I transfer all my photos onto a USB once a year to save Google storage and I clear my messages out every few months too
I'd find this totally unreasonable. If their accounting was that bad, you may well have paid already if she even did attend

Hahaha WTH????

Sorry but it's on the nursery to prove her daughter was there 2 years ago and they were not paid. This is ALL their fault.

They can go through their records and confirm with sign in and out records, camera recordings of the days etc 😂

Really she should search her Google maps because the nursery is so incompetent that they send bills out 2 years later 😂

It would irk me too. I would email and put the ball in their court to provide evidence that she was there and that you hadn't paid and rest assured that this evidence will not appear. If they are this incompetent with accounting then their record keeping is probably up to the same standards.

I would then put it out of my mind and be eternally grateful your child no long attended.

I mean I could check my Google diary from about 10 years ago but loads of people are not as anally retentive in diary keeping as me,so don't have that option.

Even thouhg I have always keept a Google diary, I might not have it noted if DS was in nursery as a one off, I probably would but not necessarily and even searching my electronic diary might take time as it would depnd how I entered the info. So yes IMO, invoicing something like this 2 years late is absolutely unreasonable

It's ridiculous sending you a bill 2 years later and I definitely wouldn't be paying it. I would have no way of knowing what I was doing 2 years ago. I write everything on a calendar and then chuck it away at the start of the new year. Baffled that some posters seem quite scathing that you have no way of knowing what you were doing. Plus, why on earth should you waste your time being a detective when they have been utterly incompetent.

Exactly! I do actually have a diary but I don't keep them for years! Who has space for that?

Op get AI to rustle you up some diary entries confirming play dates etc from 2 years ago on those dates.

(Dont actually do this, im just saying it to show how what pointless "proof" it would be to check your diary or Google maps even if you could be arsed to.)

Did you have a sign in system that you could ask them to produce?

I wouldn't be paying it either. I would outline that it is 2 years later, those were not normal attendance days, and therefore given their previous record for incorrect invoices and accounting, you will require evidence that your DD was in fact present on those days.

Then see if they have anything. If they think you have a diary you can check, they must have CCTV they can check from 2 years ago right? Right? lol

Who keeps a diary from 2 years ago?

I would not be paying this.

I have a phone calendar, but I don't use it 🤷‍♀️

We as a family still actually use a wall calendar. But the one from two years ago would have long been recycled!

Yes, how do they know you were there? They must have some eveidence, otherwise how do they know they have to invoice you. Do they have a signed sheet or something, or even an email booking that has only recently come to light, maybe after doing a records check? Get them to provide that before paying them.

If they don't provide evidence your child was at the nursery those days then say you won't pay. They have to have that evidence somewhere, howevere rubbish they are, otherwise they can just randomly pick names from their historical records of clients and send out invoices for anything they feel like

The fact they are charging for things two years ago is a good example of this. No where organised would do this! Not a chance I’d pay.

Same. It’s if not on the kitchen wall it’s not happening!

Legally, they can chase through the court up to 6 months. If they can evidence that you dd was there (through their own diary etc...) that she was there, you do owe them the money. Stating that they were rubbish at invoicing is not an excuse to refuse to pay in law.

If it escalate to bailiffs or court, you'll be expected to pay the additional fees which can quickly escalate.

Even if you have a diary of any form, it's not strictly a perfect record of exactly what happened. I wouldn't be relying on it to confirm or deny bookings I may or may not have made or used two years ago.