Supplier Payment Practices
1 credit / callHow fast does this company pay its suppliers? From its own statutory reports, benchmarked.
A company's own Payment Practices reports, read: average days to pay, the share paid late against agreed terms, its terms, the trend over its last reports, and where it ranks among all 6,000+ recent reporters, with plain advice for suppliers.
Large UK companies must report twice a year how fast they pay their suppliers: average days, how much is paid late against agreed terms, their standard and maximum terms. It's all published, 115,000 reports across more than 10,000 companies, and almost nobody reads it before taking on a big customer. This endpoint does: one call returns a company's latest report, its trend over the reports before, where it sits against every other company that reports, and a plain reading for the small firm deciding whether (and on what terms) to supply it.
what you’d build with it
Before you take the contract
A small supplier checks a prospective customer's real payment record, and asks for 30-day terms in writing when it's slow.
Credit control and invoice finance
Score debtors by how they actually pay, not by their size; flag the ones getting slower.
Procurement and bid tools
Show a buyer's payment record next to every tender, so suppliers bid with open eyes.
example response
{
"company": { "name": "EXAMPLE PLC", "number": "01234567" },
"latest": { "averageDaysToPay": 52, "paidLateAgainstTerms": 31,
"terms": { "shortest": 30, "longest": 60, "maximumContractual": 90 } },
"trend": "slower",
"benchmark": { "medianDaysToPay": 31, "slowerThanPercentOfReporters": 88 },
"reading": "EXAMPLE PLC reports paying suppliers in 52 days on average (the median large company: 31). 31% of its invoices were paid later than agreed terms (median: 15%). That's slower than 88% of companies that report. Its payments have got slower over its last reports.",
…Truncated. Full documentation and a downloadable README come with a free account.
Why developers pick it
Read, not just returned
The raw filings are a 100 MB spreadsheet; this gives the answer, the trend and the rank in one call.
Benchmarked against everyone
Every figure sits next to the median of all recent reporters, and the company's percentile.
For the supplier's side
Written for the small firm owed the money: what to agree before starting, and what the customer offers (supply-chain finance, e-invoicing, a payment code).
Refreshed weekly, attributed
Reloaded from the government's export every week (Open Government Licence); figures are as reported, never altered.
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