Invoice Finance
Invoice finance, a popular choice for UK businesses, offers swift access to up to 95% of invoice amounts within a day or two, enhancing cashflow and accelerating growth. With this option, you can complete orders, issue invoices, and receive payment in 48 hours or less. You retain control of your sales ledger, maintaining confidentiality, or delegate payment pursuit to the lender. This allows you to unlock funds from unpaid invoices or finance materials for fulfilling orders, offering flexibility.
What is Invoice Finance?
- Invoice finance benefits B2B small and medium-sized companies.
- Enables faster payment, often within 24 hours.
- Businesses receive a significant portion of each invoice upon issuance.
- Uses unpaid invoices as the basis for a loan or advance.
- Suitable for companies with a minimum £30,000 annual turnover.
- Works for businesses with payment terms of 14 days or more.
- Swoop’s network of UK invoice finance lenders can provide up to 95% of invoice value.
- Particularly useful for asset-poor businesses without collateral for bank loans.
- Unpaid invoices serve as collateral, eliminating the need for additional security.
What are the different types?
- Invoice financing (or invoice discounting)
- Invoice factoring (or account receivables financing)
- Selective invoice finance (choosing to finance specific customer accounts)
- With invoice financing, the company borrows against their unpaid bills. They retain control of their sales ledger and are responsible for collecting unpaid sums. With invoice factoring, the company sells their sales ledger to a third-party lender (the factor), who collects the unpaid sums.
How does it work?
- Invoice finance uses unpaid invoices as security for funding, providing fast access to a portion of the invoice value, typically within 48 hours.
- You can receive between 75% to 95% of the invoice value.
- You maintain control of your sales ledger and are responsible for collecting payments from customers.
- Customers make payments into a trust account that appears to be under your control, not the lender’s.
- Once the loan is repaid, with interest and fees deducted, the balance is transferred to your bank account.
- In most cases, customers are unaware that you used the invoice as loan collateral.
- Invoice financing can cover your entire sales ledger or selectively chosen invoices (selective receivables financing).
- It operates similarly to revolving credit or short-term bank loans but typically doesn’t require collateral or personal guarantees from owners or directors.
What are the interest rates?
- Typical interest rates range from 1.5% to 3% over Bank of England base rate and are calculated daily.
- Credit management fees typically vary from 0.25% to 0.5% of turnover. Invoice financing costs are similar to many traditional forms of business funding, such as overdrafts and bank loans.
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