Using Accounts Receivable Factoring to Fund Your Company
Finding the right business financing solution for a company can be a major challenge, even for seasoned professionals. Each financing solution has benefits and drawbacks and knowing which solution to deploy is critical. Deploying the wrong solution can have long term negative consequences for your company, dragging down growth.
One specific challenge stems from selling products and services to other companies on net 30 terms. This can be a problem because most companies incur a number of expenses before delivering their product or services. Waiting an additional 30 to 60 days to get paid increases the gap between spending funds and receiving revenue. This forces the company to dip into reserves to pay for operations. There is no problem with this strategy as long as the company has sufficient reserves. However, the company can get into problems very quickly if the reserves are exhausted. Interestingly, this can happen from a seemingly positive event, such as winning a large sale or project.
There is a specific business financing solution for this type of problem. It's called accounts receivable factoring and it works by providing your company with a quick payment on your net 30 to net 60 invoices. The quick payment reduces, or eliminates, the gap between expenses and revenues. This puts your company on a solid financial footing, providing a platform for sales growth.
Qualifying for receivables factoring is usually easier than qualifying for a small business loan. Most factoring companies are more interested in the quality of your receivables than anything else since that is the collateral that secures their transaction. Thanks to this approach, small and medium sized companies with few assets other than a strong list of clients can usually qualify.
Accounts receivable factoring integrates fairly easily into most companies and works as follows. Once your company completes the work, you send a copy of the invoice to the factoring company. The factoring company gives you the first advance on the invoice which is about 80% of the face value. Once your client actually pays the invoice, the factoring company remits the second advance, which is the remaining 20% less the financing fee.
This type of financing lends itself well to certain industries. For example, staffing, security and transportation companies commonly factor receivables as a way to ensure they have funds to meet operational expenses.
Invoice factoring has been gaining popularity as an alternative to conventional business loans, especially for startup, growing and distressed companies.
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