Construction Finance Funding Quotes Applications For Payment Or Invoices

Construction Finance

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Construction Finance (sometimes called receivables finance or construction invoice finance) is specialist finance for subcontractors within the construction sector. It can be used for any purpose, including paying site workers, overdue taxes, or purchasing raw materials.

It can help improve your cash flow if you have just won a new contract, especially a large order, or if you want to take on larger projects even with contractual terms, such as JCT contracts.


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Why Choose FundInvoice To Find You Construction Finance?

This is why you should choose FundInvoice to help you find the funding you need:

  • Expert Guidance: As brokers, we navigate the complex world of construction finance for you, ensuring you get the best terms available.
  • Broad Network: We have established relationships with a panel of reputable finance providers, broadening your choices.
  • Fast and Efficient: Our established multi-award-winning team can expedite approval times, getting funds to you when you need them most.
  • Tailored Solutions: We understand that every construction business is unique. We ensure the finance solution fits your specific needs and growth goals.

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What Are The Main Benefits Of These Products

Construction finance provides you with:

  • Finance against uncertified or certified applications for payment, outstanding sales invoices or vesting certificates for materials.

  • Credit Control Support - (if you want it) to collect customer payments. This can be "confidential" i.e. carried out in the name of your business so that your customers are unaware that you are using it.

  • Selective or Whole Turnover Options - you can finance transactions you select, or finance all your turnover to maximise the amount of funding.

  • Confidentiality - (in many cases) so that your customers are unaware that you are using the service.

How Does Construction Finance Work?

This specialist form of finance is only offered by certain companies that specialise in helping this sector. It works as follows:

  • The finance company provides you with a prepayment, on the day you submit them (in some cases).
  • This can be against uncertified applications for payment when they are raised, staged invoices or sales invoices.
  • A 70% prepayment against a £100K sales ledger could release up to £70K of funding.
  • This immediate cash injection can be used for any purpose including paying for workers or materials.
  • When customers pay, the balance (minus charges) is passed to you.
  • As you raise new applications for payment or invoices, more cash prepayments are made to you.
  • In this way, the funding grows as your sales ledger grows.

Options

  • You don't have to finance all your transactions. You can just select some individual transactions to finance without any obligation to finance more.
  • Funding of up to 25% of the total contract value can be made against signed-off vesting certificates in respect of materials held on-site or off-site (for future project phases).
  • The finance company can provide credit control support, if required, in the name of your business.
  • You can also have optional bad debt protection against customers becoming insolvent.

Barriers To Funding That Are Overcome

The financiers can fund even where there are:

  • Complex contracts or contractual debts including JCT contracts, DOM, NEC3 or bespoke contracts.
  • Project-based transactions even with deposits paid and staged payments (interim payments during the project).
  • Retentions - payments that are held back following the completion of a project until some future sign-off is completed.
  • Extended payment terms.
  • Liquidated damages, performance clauses or termination clauses.
  • Variations of up to 10% of the contract value.

How Does Funding Against Uncertified Applications For Payment Work

The prepayments level is set by the funder, typically up to 70% (but can be as high as 100% less the funder's fee), and is made against the net value of the applications for payment i.e. excluding:

  • Deductions (if appropriate)
  • Self-bill VAT
  • Retentions
  • Main contractor's discount (or other discounts)
  • CIS (Construction Industry Scheme) tax

This type of funding can still release substantial amounts of cash for any purpose, including paying workers and materials.

The Benefits

You can:

  • Receive funding, on the day you raise and submit uncertified applications for payment (or invoices).
  • Settle your wage bills, and labour costs or pay your suppliers for raw materials before you get paid by the main contractor or your customer.
  • Enjoy full confidentiality (if required - subject to criteria) so your customers don't know you are receiving funding.
  • Improve your cash flow enabling you to negotiate better terms for the supply of raw materials.
  • Avoid raising capital in ways that will dilute your ownership of your businesses. You retain full ownership.
  • Avoid having to give your house as security to a bank for a loan.
  • Take on bigger jobs without worrying about when you will get paid so you can enter the tendering process with confidence.
  • Leverage the expertise of specialist funders with experience in your sector and access quantity surveyors (QS) / recovery specialists who can help ensure you get paid.
  • Enjoy electronic access to your account.
  • Optional bad debt protection against your customer failing to pay is provided by specialists within the sector.

    Who Is Eligible?

    There are several different sectors and trading methods that may qualify for this kind of finance. The following situations are suited to this type of finance:

    • Having a CIS UTR number (not necessary though).
    • If you raise applications for payment (also called payment applications), even if they are uncertified.
    • Raising invoices for stage payments for incomplete contracts.
    • Being a subcontractor or the main contractor (in some cases).
    • Seeking finance against JCT contracts, DOM1, NEC3 or bespoke contracts.

    Trade Sectors

    The following sectors may be eligible for funding (see the full list of SIC code sectors that are suitable):

    • Main contractors & subcontractors
    • Partitions & plastering
    • Diamond drilling
    • Dry lining
    • Demolition
    • Fast track shopfitting
    • Industrial doors
    • Supply and installation of bathrooms, kitchens & double glazing
    • Plumbing & heating
    • Traffic management
    • Joinery pitched roofing & flooring
    • Property refurbishment, scaffolding, painting & ceilings
    • Property maintenance
    • Landscaping & earthworks
    • Interiors, decorating & tiling
    • Fabrication of steelworks
    • Electrical contracting
    • Pre-cast concrete

    What Does It Cost?

    Article explaining how charges and funding levels are calculated.

    An example of a construction finance quote we found for a company.

    If you think that finance against uncertified applications for payment, or unpaid invoices, could help your business please CONTACT US for a no-obligation construction finance quote search and for support from an independent expert.

    For more details about these services please see our free: Guide To Construction Finance.


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