Are We the Right Factoring Company for Your Startup? (An Honest Answer)
Most factoring companies will tell you they’re the best. I won’t, because “best” isn’t a real thing. The right factor for a $40-million oilfield services company isn’t the right factor for a two-truck carrier or an IT consultancy that just landed its first real client.
If you’re a newer company weighing this, it’s worth knowing whether your startup can use invoice factoring at all before you shop…
Do I Have to Factor All My Invoices, or Can I Pick and Choose?
Part of our Honest Answers series — straight talk about financing a growing business.
This question comes up early in almost every conversation, and it usually arrives with a little suspicion attached. People have heard that once you sign with a factor, everything you bill runs through them forever. That’s not quite right, but it’s not entirely wrong either — and the difference matters enough that you…
The Bank Said No. Your Growth Doesn’t Have to Wait.
Part of our Honest Answers series — straight talk about financing a growing business.
You did everything right. You landed the bigger customer, won the contract, or saw demand climb faster than you expected. So you went to the bank for a line of credit or a term loan to fund the growth — and the bank said no.
It stings, and it doesn’t always make…
The Growth Trap: How Staffing and IT Firms Run Out of Cash by Winning Great Customers
There’s a particular kind of failure that blindsides good companies. It doesn’t come from losing customers, botching a project, or getting undercut on price. It comes from winning — specifically, from landing the exact large, creditworthy, name-brand customer the founder has been chasing for years. The contract closes, everyone celebrates, and four months later the company can’t make payroll.
We call this the growth trap, and it’s…
How Much Does Invoice Factoring Cost — and How Is My Rate Determined?
It’s the first question almost every business owner asks us, and it’s the right one to ask: what is this actually going to cost me? A lot of factoring companies get vague here. We’d rather just show you the math.
Here’s the short version, and then we’ll break down every piece of it: most of our clients pay an average discount rate of about 4.4% per invoice,…
The Top Reasons Businesses Come to Us for Factoring, Ranked
Every factoring application has a line that asks why you’re applying. Most people write something like “working capital” or “cash flow.” That’s true — but it’s not the real story. The real story is the thing that sent you looking for a factoring company in the first place, usually late at night, after you’d run the numbers three times and they still didn’t work.
Those reasons matter,…
What Happens After the Invoice Is Paid?
It’s smart to understand the full cycle, not just the part where you get cash. Knowing what happens at the end takes the mystery out of factoring and helps you reconcile your books cleanly. Here’s how an invoice wraps up.
It also helps to know you’re not locked in — you can pick and choose which invoices to factor.
The…Can I Factor International Invoices?
Short answer: yes, you can — but I’m going to be straight with you. Cross-border factoring is a different animal than domestic factoring, and before you build your cash flow plan around it, you need to understand the extra layers you’re taking on.
Before you build a plan around it, it’s worth seeing what you need to apply and how onboarding works.
The core…
Can I Factor Invoices Without Losing Control of My Business?
It’s one of the most common worries I hear, and it’s completely understandable. When a third party starts receiving your customers’ payments, it can feel like you’re handing over the keys to your own company.
Here’s the reassuring truth: factoring changes how you get paid — not how you run your business. You keep full control.
What a Factor Actually Does — and Doesn’t DoLet’s be…
