Advertiser Disclosure

Invoice Factoring Blog Posts

what is a factoring company

What Is A Factoring Company & How Does Factoring Work?

A factoring company is a company that buys a business’s unpaid invoices at a discount, then collects the money owed directly from the business’s customers. Businesses use factoring companies to get immediate cash flow, rather than waiting for an invoice to get paid on its regular 30-90 day payment schedule.

Read More
May 17, 2022 Filed under: Invoice Factoring

The 4 Best Factoring Companies For Fleets, Owner Operators, & Other Trucking Companies

One of the biggest challenges faced by trucking companies is waiting to get paid. You could potentially wait for weeks (or even months!) to receive payments from your customers. Fortunately, there’s a way to get paid quickly: invoice factoring. You can have access to instant (or near-instant) cash instead of waiting 30, 60, or 90 days for your customers to pay. But what’s the catch? In this post, we’ll take a look at invoice factoring for trucking companies.

Read More
Dec 30, 2020 Filed under: Business Loans, Invoice Factoring, Invoice Financing, Small Business

6 Best Loans For Freelancers & The Self-Employed

The life of a freelancer is challenging yet rewarding. While getting a business loan as a freelancer may seem like an insurmountable hurdle, there are plenty of online loans for the freelance business owner determined to make it work. Online loans for freelancers are fast and easy, giving you access to funds in as little as 24 hours in some cases.

Read More
Mar 8, 2023 Filed under: Business Loans, Crowdfunding, Invoice Factoring, Peer-to-Peer Loans

Fundbox VS BlueVine: Compare Loans & Find Out Which Lender Is Right For Your Small Business

Fundbox and BlueVine are two popular financing services for B2B and B2C businesses. Both use technology to offer fast, hassle-free invoice financing and lines of credit to small businesses.

If you run a small business, especially one that processes invoices, you’ve probably heard of one or both of these companies. But while both provide excellent services, you only need one — so which do you choose?

Read More
May 15, 2020 Filed under: Business Loans, Invoice Factoring

The Best Business Loan & Financing Resources For Washington Small Businesses

Washington State is known both for its breathtaking typography and for being one of the biggest tech hubs in the nation (outside of Silicon Valley). With the Seattle metro area experiencing explosive growth, it’s a great time to be doing business in the Evergreen State. Of course, keeping a business running smoothly requires money — sometimes […]

Read More
Feb 26, 2020 Filed under: Business Credit Cards, Business Loans, Invoice Factoring, Merchant Cash Advance
business loan reasons

19 Reasons To Get A Business Loan (And How To Get Started)

There are so many good reasons to get a business loan that you probably haven’t even considered half of them. For example, have you ever thought about taking out a loan to hire a new employee or getting a loan for the sole purpose of building your business’s credit? Those are both valid reasons to […]

Read More
Nov 26, 2018 Filed under: Business Credit Cards, Business Loans, Invoice Factoring, Merchant Cash Advance, Small Business

Is Invoice Factoring Right For Your Small Business?

If your business, like many others, has outstanding invoices and slow-paying customers, you don’t have to be stuck without cash flow. Invoice factoring — selling unpaid invoices to a factoring company in exchange for immediate cash — could be the answer to your troubles. But how exactly does invoice factoring work? Should you use small business […]

Read More
Feb 5, 2020 Filed under: Accounting, Bookkeeping, Invoicing, Business Loans, Invoice Factoring

We Want Your Feedback!

Help us to improve by providing some feedback on your experience today.

The vendors that appear on this list were chosen by subject matter experts on the basis of product quality, wide usage and availability, and positive reputation.

Merchant Maverick’s ratings are editorial in nature, and are not aggregated from user reviews. Each staff reviewer at Merchant Maverick is a subject matter expert with experience researching, testing, and evaluating small business software and services. The rating of this company or service is based on the author’s expert opinion and analysis of the product, and assessed and seconded by another subject matter expert on staff before publication. Merchant Maverick’s ratings are not influenced by affiliate partnerships.

Our unbiased reviews and content are supported in part by affiliate partnerships, and we adhere to strict guidelines to preserve editorial integrity. The editorial content on this page is not provided by any of the companies mentioned and has not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of these entities. Opinions expressed here are author’s alone.

Sign up for the Maverick Newsletter

  • Please select topics of interest

  • We occasionally send out emails with special offers.
  • Hidden
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.