Is Integrity a big ask when doing business?

Most of the business want to ruthlessly trick your money!

Could have lost our final payment for an App project from my client.

Worked on an opportunity with my white-labeled agency partner a sales-only person offering app development services. Have been part of the initial discovery meeting for a real-world problem statement for a Transloading company in US. Provided a solution for the problem by digitizing the paper-based workflow to a Tablet app model and the records being available as reports in the web platform, built and shipped the app 2.5 months end client was happy, and the solution worked as proposed.

After the UAT for a few weeks internally they signed off the project and released the payment to my Agency partner last Tuesday to migrate the project to live. The partner says the money will arrive to his bank account and you can start with the migration process. We have mentioned the codes cannot be shipped without the payment is realized.

By Thursday our Agency partner sent me a text I'm going to the bank today to wire the money you can start with the migration, we went on with helping the end client create the AWS access and App license purchase to get ready for publishing the app. The partner says he got stuck and will be sending the money on Friday from Bank.

We had to slow down on getting the 2FA authenticated, by Friday I'm on the phone saying the money is already wired sending the confirmation receipt.

Monday morning, we had all the access set-up and educating the end client to buy a domain using name cheap waiting for the receipt to start the migration, our Agency partner texted in hospital with his mom and creating urgency that the end client has to use the app today for their work and it needs to be migrated today without delay. We had to call the end client to apologize for no mistake of us saying that the migration would require additional time and we can't do it today.

Tuesday we haven't yet received the wire payment. Sent n email and text to our agency partner, We will hold the migration indefinitely until the money reaches our bank account, and no reply for 6hrs.

Fun part " He is responding to Grant Cardone's post in Linkedin and commenting" but no time to reply us.

Calls back by 3pm. Says a shit load of bullshit and we're not ready to buy it anymore.

But I'm feeling so bad for the end client. They are thorough professionals and really needed this to work and already paid for it.

Will there be no integrity " The Agency partner just literally try to steal us" If we would have transferred the codes, we would have no way going to get the money.