Dynamic discounting for enterprise businesses
With Earlytrade, businesses are empowered to act with confidence. Our software combines dynamic discount trading with competitive price setting, automating at-scale early settlements from buyers to suppliers. Now both parties can meet their payment obligations, save time and impact their bottom line.
Set up your Earlytrade portal — our customised, cloud-based supplier portal and B2B platform that seamlessly connects to any ERP.
Registered suppliers are able to view approved invoices, payment due dates and plan with greater confidence. Set up payment limits to allow for on-demand early settlement.
Deliver more control and confidence for your suppliers with no third party involvement. Those who opt for on-demand early settlements will be paid directly by you, as their business requires.
Key features
- Customers determine the amount of cash made available for early payment, and can adjust this at any time, you are in control of this throughout the year in response to their own working capital position
- Funds never flow through Earlytrade, and you maintain control over your invoice processing and payments
- Earlytrade enables customers to pay their supply chain early, in exchange for discounts, improving liquidity and reducing risk of insolvency
- It’s an ethical solution:
- Empowers suppliers to own their cash flow, and maintain full discretion on how and when they participate;
- Easily accessible and a competitive alternative to expensive traditional supply chain finance
- Improved transparency and efficiency – Earlytrade enables suppliers to easily view the status of their invoices, driving a ~60% reduction in inbound Accounts Payable (AP) queries
- Earlytrade is not supply chain finance – No third parties, no factoring of debt, no change in payment terms
- With over 90,000 suppliers already using Earlytrade, customers enjoy substantial and immediate utilisation
- Quick system launch – Earlytrade can interface will all major Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) providers, including SAP and Oracle.
- Increase profitability – early payments attract a discount that reduces your cost of goods sold and, subsequently, improves EBIT
- Put your capital to work – utilise undeployed cash, at zero risk, to attract discounts that offer superior returns to traditional term deposits
- Risk management – greater visibility of supplier behaviour and ability to implement risk controls in a timely manner
