How many extra sales does this capital have to make
Capital does not grow a business, sales do. See the breakeven before you sign: the extra sales the borrow has to create before it has paid for itself.
What one typical job, order or ticket brings in.
Before the borrow has paid for itself. Everything after that is yours.
Capital does not grow a business. Sales do. If the extra sales above are not already in a plan with names and dates on it, the repayment comes out of the revenue you have today. Estimates only, from the numbers you enter.
Borrowing to grow, not to survive
How do I know if a business loan will actually pay for itself?
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Work out the breakeven. Take the total you repay, divide it by the gross profit one typical sale leaves you, and you have the number of extra sales the capital has to create before it has cost you nothing. If your plan does not produce that many additional sales, the repayment comes out of revenue the business was already earning, which is how borrowing to grow turns into borrowing to survive.
What is a good use of borrowed capital?
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Anything with a short, countable path back to revenue: inventory you have already sold through before, a piece of equipment that lifts capacity, a hire whose output you can measure, a marketing channel with a known return. The common thread is that you can name the extra sales in advance. Capital used to cover a gap you cannot explain has no breakeven, so there is nothing to check it against.
Does a higher factor rate change how much I have to sell?
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Directly. A factor rate is the cost of the capital expressed as cents on the dollar, so 1.35 means 35 cents of cost on every dollar borrowed. Raising the factor raises the total you repay, and every extra dollar of repayment has to come from another sale at your gross margin. A thin margin multiplies that effect, because it takes more revenue to produce each dollar of gross profit.
Should I use credit I already have instead?
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Usually yes, if you have undrawn room on a line or a card. It is capital you have already been approved for, it typically costs less than a new advance, and drawing it does not add a position to your file for the next underwriter to read. Price that first, then borrow the difference.
You estimated it. Now see it read from your account
Borrowing only works if the sales it buys outrun the payment. Connect the bank once and New Matrix reads the real figures off your statements, scores the file, and lines up the funders whose rules it clears. Free to join, no advance fees.