If you have a cash
flow problem you might consider finding a company which is prepared
to buy invoices in order to fund that capital which your business
obviously needs right now. Quite often, and through no particular fault,
businesses find themselves in a negative cash flow situation because
they dont have enough cash to meet their various payments, to pay employees,
or make the capital investment necessary to take the company forward.
In these cases companies who buy invoices (also called factoring or
invoice discounting) may be able to help.
What happens is that the factor will buy invoices from
you at a discount, after which they take on the complete responsibility
for collecting the payment as it becomes due. So you get immediate cash,
or working capital, and the company buying invoices stands to make a
simple profit as well.
The amount of the
discount is not large by any means, though different factors charge
different rates when they buy invoices from you.