Factoring money
- sometimes called invoice discounting - is the selling of your invoices
to a factoring company at a small discount in order to raise sometimes
large amounts of ready cash and often at very short notice. It is often
used to solve cash flow problems once and for all. Their are many advantages
over loans and overdrafts, but the chief advantage of factoring
money is that you do not have to put up any other assets as security.
Yet you could receive
up to 95% or more of the value of your invoices on the day you raise
them.
Other advantages
of factoring money, other than the ability to get cash very quickly,
is that you don't have to collect the debt. This is particularly attractive
if you have persistent late-payers and you lack the means of in-house
debt collection resources or are hesitant to chase this up yourself.
In this case it is the factoring company gets the debt and has to collect
it.
You can use factoring
to raise cash for any number of business needs, including the longer
terms strategy of steady business expansion where help from a bank is
either unrealistic or too expensive.