Early Payment Negotiation Built for GCs and Their Subs
Commercial GCs with significant subcontractor spend leverage Earlytrade for 4-5x money market returns.
Subs and trade partners that request early payments via Earlytrade get paid 28 days early on average.
Join industry-leading general contractors who are leveraging early payments to increase margin and improve relationships with their trade partners.
Earlytrade is really attractive because the discount is auction-based rather than contractually obligated. Our subs get to decide the value to them and whether to take a discount, invoice-by-invoice.
You can look at Earlytrade as either a cost-saving tool or a revenue generator—it’s both. For us, it’s about making our capital work smarter while keeping subcontractors financially stable.
Knowing that Earlytrade would handle onboarding for our subcontractors was very important to me. If my team had to manage that project or go through hours of training and implementation of a new system, I wouldn’t have pursued Earlytrade.
The financial return just made sense—a 2% discount return on early payments easily outperformed what we could get from short-term investments like money market accounts.
We would have needed a team of several additional people to manage an in-house program for all the subcontractors requesting early payments. Earlytrade enables us to do this at scale and with existing staff.
