Avoid The Christmas Cash Flow Crunch
Although many Australian businesses experience their highest sales during the Christmas period, for some it can be the toughest time to maintain healthy cash flow. Businesses in a number of sectors suffer a decrease in production and sales and may shut down completely for a couple of weeks. At the same time, they still have […]
Cash Flow Help For Australian Transport Companies
Most Australian trucking companies are started by drivers who invest their own money to buy a truck and launch and operate the company. While many drivers have a great deal of industry experience, they don’t necessarily have a lot of capital to support the business in the early days. Often, this stops them from reaching […]
Download Free eBook: How To Improve Cashflow With Invoice Finance
IN AUSTRALIA, the average time taken for invoices to be paid is 53 days. The long wait for payment can stop businesses from making investments in research, new employees, better equipment upgrades, and other growth that can benefit the company in the long run. It’s also about survival, because cashflow is your life blood – you need […]
How Success Can Kill Your Business
As odd as it sounds, more sales, greater revenue and faster growth can pose real dangers to Australian businesses in 2015. As your business grows, you will need to find money to pay for more staff, bigger facilities and increased production costs. If your business expands rapidly and the growth is largely unplanned, you’ll risk […]
Why does it take large companies so long to pay invoices?
IF YOUR business is waiting longer for invoices to be paid in 2015, you’re not alone. Australia’s small and medium businesses are being forced to wait longer to be paid on outstanding invoices – especially when dealing with larger companies. A recent Australian Government survey shows nearly two-thirds of small businesses have invoices that were […]
Why Businesses Prefer OptiPay Over Other Lenders
WHILE Australian SMEs are increasingly using invoice finance to improve working capital and grow their businesses, common misconceptions remain about how fees are calculated. One of the most common questions asked is “what is your interest rate”. OptiPay’s answer is always the same. Interest is not charged at all – because OptiPay is not a […]
Case study: Invoice Finance for the civil construction industry
PLANT hire and civil construction companies operate in industries notorious for long invoice payments terms. They are often at the bottom of the food chain in terms of who gets paid. Case study Our client, who provided earth moving equipment, had signed a long-term contract to work on a major road project. They issued invoices […]
7 Myths About Invoice Finance Busted
Myth 1. Invoice finance hurts your income The truth: Importantly, an invoice finance service fee is not an annualised interest rate. Our fee stops the day the invoice is paid. It is absolutely no different to offering your customers a small early payment discount. Myth 2. invoice finance is only for small businesses The truth: […]
Five Important Questions About Invoice Finance
1. What size does an invoice need to be? An invoice needs to be $5,000 (including GST) or greater with no limit to the size of the invoice. If your individual invoices are less than $5,000, you have the option to “batch” up your invoices to reach $5,000 of requested funding. 2. Will my customers […]
Case study: Invoice finance for trade contractors
Invoice Finance for Trade Contractors – A Case Study BEING paid is always a challenge in the construction industry, especially for subcontractors who have to wait months for progress payments. Below we explain how OptiPay helped a Sydney electrical contractor access a $75,000 pay cheque when his business needed it most. CASE STUDY: Our client, […]