Invoice discounting, or invoice financing, is a business financing method that uses unpaid customer invoices as collateral for a loan. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with ...

In many industries, long payment cycles are an unfortunate reality. Waiting 30 or 45 days to receive payment is widespread in the business world, and it can take much longer. This can create cash flow ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business ...

The economic trend for nearly every restaurant operator in 2022 was to raise prices, with most companies taking mid-single digit-- or sometimes double-digit menu price increases in order to keep pace ...

Each customer has a set price they are willing to pay for your product. Unfortunately, it's rarely the same as the one advertised on your site. That's because there are three main types of customers: ...

Between a global pandemic and major cultural shifts, shoppers rightfully have pressing matters on their minds right now. This has caused significant financial challenges for brands, and according to ...

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released its preliminary analysis of the Boxer-Kerry cap-and-trade bill. It largely reheats their analysis of the Waxman-Markey bill from last summer ...

When two different coalitions of industry players announced their proposals to overhaul the fashion calendar last week, both groups addressed the industry’s discounting problem. The coalitions called ...