You can’t afford to wait 30 to 60 days to get paid by your clients? The process of waiting to get paid, after all, can be a long and bothersome wait for the average business owner, meaning you. It could even lead to your business missing out on valuable opportunities. It could possibly mean that your company won’t be able to make significant bidding efforts because you can’t afford to wait. It could even lead to catastrophe. It can mean that you need to delay payroll. It may mean that you don’t pay rent or taxes. It may force you to shut down your business.
Who are you gonna call in such a situation - not Ghostbusters, of course, but probably your trusted banker. Good luck with that one, because if your business does not have any hard assets, if it has yet to produce substantial profit over three years or if it’s new, banks would hesitate to lend money. At this juncture, probably you might be thinking of throwing in the towel because you’re all out of ideas. We have an idea, though.
If your company sells products or services to large credit worthy companies, you could qualify for invoice factoring financing. No longer do you have to wait a month or two - with invoice factoring, the turnaround time for getting your money is 24 hours. 24 hours, now isn’t that neat, and the perfect opportunity for you to make your business thrive?
The beauty part about factoring is that it does not involve any hard form of collateral. All you need are some invoices from credit worthy clients and you should be set. Also, factoring companies do not work like your typical bank. Unlike other financial institutions, a factoring company would provide financing tailor-fit to the invoices you provide. So if you can provide more invoices, you get more financing.
Factoring is very simple
You gather invoices for the products you sell or services you offer.
You submit those invoices both to your clients and to factoring companies.
The factoring company advances you up to 85% of the gross value of your invoices (the remaining is kept as a reserve to offset disputes)
Once the invoice is paid by your client, the factoring company releases the 15% reserve and charges their fee
Thanks to factoring financing, which is not too hard to be eligible for, you don’t have to wait one to two months for your customers to pay. You don’t have to play the waiting game when it comes to satisfying your employees and accepting new opportunities.