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Understanding selective invoice discounting
A financing option where businesses can obtain advance payments on specific invoices, while retaining the responsibility for collecting payments from customers.
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Key takeaways
- Selective invoice discounting provides immediate cash flow by financing specific unpaid invoices, enhancing working capital and investment opportunities.
- It requires the company to manage invoice issuance and debt collection, maintaining control over customer interactions.
- Offers flexibility with no long-term contracts, making it suitable for businesses of all sizes, including startups.
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Selective invoice discounting is a form of invoice finance enabling businesses to unlock cash from their unpaid invoices on a per-invoice basis. Unlike spot factoring, the obligation to pursue and gather customer payments still lies with the business in selective invoice discounting.
Through selective invoice discounting your company can then have access to cash on its unpaid sales thereby improving its working capital and investment opportunities when having cash flow problems is short or business is slow.
How does the selective invoice discounting process work?
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A company will make a decision that it wants to release some capital from a selected unpaid invoice. It will then assign the invoice to a selective invoice discounting provider.
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The provider will approve the invoice and come to an agreement on its terms and conditions. This will include a quote and terms on conditions of repayment of the loan. The loan quote will cover up to 95% but in most cases around 70 to 85% of the value of the invoice.
This amount will be advanced as a loan to the company.
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The loan plus the finance provider’s fee is to be repaid subject to the terms and conditions agreed. The company will receive the outstanding balance of the invoice once they have received full payment from the customer and it is up to the company to chase up outstanding debt.
What is the difference between selective invoice discounting and spot factoring?
With selective invoice factoring the company selects an unpaid invoice and then receives cash in the form of a loan from the financial provider for a percentage of the invoice amount. The company is responsible for chasing up the value of the invoice and paying back the loan.
With spot factoring the company sells its invoice to a 3rd party financial provider for a percentage of its value, the finance provider is then responsible for chasing up payment from the customer, the company is no longer in control of that.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of selective invoice discounting?
Advantages of selective invoice discounting:
- Available to a wide variety of business's including new starters
- Releases cash locked into customer invoices
- No long term contracts with the financial provider
- Increased cash flow for the company, increased working capital, reduced need for overdrafts orother debt facilities
- No security required, just an unpaid invoice
- No impact to the company on relations with customers. The discount company has no contact with the customer
- The company selling the goods and services maintain control over sales receivables
- Confidentiality is maintained as suppliers and customers don’t need to know that finance is obtained against sales invoices
- Company and customer benefit as company has cash and customer has credit facilities helping to maintain good relations
Disadvantages of selective invoice discounting:
- The discounting company will charge a fee for the loan so profit margins are decreased
- Comparisons should be made with other forms of loans as they may be cheaper
- Stakeholders may not be happy with this form of finance
- Only available on commercial invoices
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Once you become a client you will be given your own trust account, meaning you will get same day availability on your funds. You can also view all of your invoices and payments online at a time suitable to you, 24/7.
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Alternative SME Lender of the Year 2023
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