Purchase Order Financing - A Tool To Finance Your Growing Orders

Jun 9
08:14

2006

Marco Terry

Marco Terry

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Do you have a large number of purchase orders? Turning purchase orders away? Learn how to finance them with purchase order financing.

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Do you have more purchase orders than what you can handle? Is lack of financing preventing you from fulfilling those orders? One of the most frustrating things that can happen to a business owner is to turn orders away – good orders – because you don’t have the financial capacity to fulfill them.Of course,Purchase Order Financing - A Tool To Finance Your Growing Orders Articles you can try to get a business loan. However, business loans have their limitations as business financing tools. They are hard to get and have arbitrary limits, so they don’t grow with your business. Wouldn’t it be great to have a business financing tool that could handle all your supplier payments – provided you had purchase orders from good customers? How many orders could you close then? That tool exists and is called purchase order financing. Purchase order financing is a financing product that is offered by factoring companies. The tool’s premise is very simple. Once you have a confirmed purchase order, the factoring companyfinances all supplier payments, usually by letter of credit. Once the order is delivered and paid for, the transaction is settled.And how much does purchase order funding cost? Well, it depends on the size of the order, the complexity of the transaction and the commercial credit worthiness of the company paying for the products (your customer). On average, the financing cost will be between 2.5% and 4.5% of the order.Although po financing is a great tool, it is not for everyone. It works best if your profit margins are between 15% and 30% and if your customers are medium sized (or large) companies or government agencies. If you meet these criteria, purchase order financing can almost eliminate your out of pocket expenses.If you own a reseller or distributor and have more purchase orders than financial capacity, consider purchase order financing as the tool that can help you close those orders and grow.