• shortpay, short pay

From short +‎ pay, parallel to compounds such as shortchange. Attested in financial and employment contexts since at least the early 20th century.

short-pay (third-person singular simple present short-pays, present participle short-paid, simple past and past participle short-payed)

1. (finance, accounting) To pay (someone) less than the amount that is owed; to underpay through error, omission, or miscalculation.

   Synonyms: shortchange, underpay

   • 2023 December 15, Shaun Jex, “How to Handle Short Payments”, in Quadient‎^[1]:

     A short payment occurs when a customer underpays their invoice... At times, a customer may short pay an invoice as part of a cash flow management strategy, choosing to pay less than the full amount to minimize their outflow of money.