Accounts Receivable Financing for SMEs

Working Capital And Receivables Finance

Accounts Receivable Financing Solutions For SMEs

If your business is profitable on paper but cash tight in reality, accounts receivable financing can close the gap. You get liquidity against eligible invoices, with a structure built around collections, concentration limits, and controls that capital providers can underwrite.

Financely runs a fixed decisioning process. You submit documents, we build a lender grade package, and route it to matched capital providers for term sheets or written declines. Start with How It Works or review our broader Trade Finance Services.

What Accounts Receivable Financing Solves

SMEs often grow into a working capital trap: payroll and suppliers are due now, while customers pay in 30 to 90 days. Accounts receivable financing converts a portion of eligible receivables into immediate cash so you can fund operations, accept larger orders, and stabilize cash flow.

Common Use Cases

  • Funding growth without waiting for customer payment cycles
  • Covering payroll and supplier payments during peak seasons
  • Reducing reliance on founder cash injections
  • Supporting new customer wins where terms are long

Typical Fit

  • B2B invoicing with verifiable delivery or acceptance
  • Repeat buyers with trackable payment behavior
  • Clear dispute management and credit notes history
  • Ability to support reporting and collections controls

Facility Types We Structure

There is no single product called “accounts receivable financing.” The structure depends on your buyers, invoice profile, concentration, and operational controls. Below are common structures used by capital providers.

Key point: the “rate” is not the only variable. Eligibility, concentration limits, reserves, reporting cadence, and collections control decide whether a facility is stable and bankable.

What Capital Providers Underwrite

A serious capital provider underwrites the buyer quality, invoice operability, dilution profile, and the controls that protect collections. If these inputs are weak, pricing is not the problem. The facility is not underwriteable.

Core Diligence Inputs

  • Aging, historical collections, and days sales outstanding trend
  • Buyer concentration and top buyer payment performance
  • Disputes, returns, credit notes, and set off rights
  • Invoice support: PO, delivery evidence, acceptance evidence
  • KYB, KYC, sanctions screening, and source of funds checks

Control Package

  • Eligibility rules with dilution reserves
  • Concentration limits and ineligibles logic
  • Collections workflow and notice of assignment when required
  • Blocked account or controlled cash waterfall where required
  • Reporting cadence sized to buyer payment behavior

What Financely Delivers

We act as a transaction led capital advisory desk. The work is packaging, structuring, and decisioning. We do not run open ended consulting, and we do not run informal back and forth over chat threads.

Lender Ready Deal Package

A structured file that capital providers can evaluate quickly: receivables tape requirements, buyer mapping, performance history, and a clear controls plan.

  • Borrowing base and eligibility framework draft
  • Reserve logic for dilution and concentrations
  • Reporting and covenant targets sized to the risk

Matched Capital Provider Routing

We route the mandate to capital providers that fit your profile and structure. Output is a term sheet, or a written decline with a reason code when applicable.

  • Fit matrix and submission sequencing
  • Managed Q&A and document follow ups
  • Term sheet comparison support

Process

  1. Submission: You submit your receivables pack and company documents via our intake.
  2. Packaging: We build the lender ready file and propose the structure, controls, and target terms.
  3. Decisioning: We route to matched capital providers and manage feedback and Q&A.
  4. Term Sheet Outcome: You receive term sheets for review, or written declines where the profile does not fit.

Need the broader context? If your receivables are trade linked, see Trade Finance for related facility types and controls.

Pricing

Our standard commercial mandate pricing is fixed and milestone based. It covers packaging, structuring, and managed lender decisioning. If the mandate requires jurisdiction specific licensing for execution, we coordinate execution through appropriately licensed partners under their approvals.

Request Terms

If you have active invoices, identifiable buyers, and clean support documents, request indicative terms. We will revert with feasibility, a checklist, and an execution path sized to your timeline.

FAQ

Is accounts receivable financing the same as factoring?

Factoring is one structure. Receivables financing can also be discounting, a borrowing base revolver, or a hybrid. The right option depends on buyer profile, documentation, concentrations, and control requirements.

What makes invoices eligible?

Eligibility typically depends on buyer quality, invoice age, proof of delivery or acceptance, lack of disputes, and clear assignment or collections control terms. Capital providers also apply concentration limits and dilution reserves.

Do you finance consumer receivables?

Our focus is commercial receivables for SMEs where invoices are verifiable and controls can be implemented. If you are unsure, submit the profile and we will revert with fit or a clear no.

How do you avoid time wasting outreach?

We package the file to lender standards and route only to capital providers whose criteria match your buyer profile and structure. Where a fit is not present, you get a written decline with the gating reason when available.

Important: This page is for general information only and does not constitute legal, tax, investment, or regulatory advice. Financely is not a bank, not a broker dealer, and not a direct lender. Any engagement and any introduction process is subject to diligence, KYB, KYC, AML, sanctions screening, capital provider criteria, and definitive documentation. Financely does not promise approvals or funding. Where execution requires licensing, execution is coordinated through appropriately licensed partners under their approvals.

For a receivables facility to close, the basics must be clean: receivables tape quality, buyer performance, dispute and dilution history, and a controls package that a lender can enforce. If you can provide those inputs, accounts receivable financing becomes a practical working capital tool for SMEs. If you need support selecting a structure, start with Contact Us or review What We Do.