Diversity of Products Within Revenue-Based Financing

Revenue-based financing has become extremely popular; So popular that it’s spawned its own variations of products. Some are loans, some are not. Many of the terms in the public vernacular are simply colloquial. The details are instead in the individual contracts. Refer to those contracts to understand how something works. Loans are absolutely repayable while non-loans structured as purchases tend to not be. The loans tend to have a hard term length built in if a merchant’s sales are well below what was projected even if it was based on a percentage of sales. Below is a small snapshot of how products are marketed with a percentage-of-sales payment mechanism.

One thing is certain. The trend of relying on a merchant’s revenue to determine payments is rapidly expanding.