Business Owners Get to the "Next Level"

Let's compare the two to determine total cost. When borrowing $50,000 under conventional parameters you may be looking at a seven-year term (84 monthly installments) at an interest rate of 7%. Monthly installment payments of $755 for that time period will equal a total of $63,420. When borrowing capital using a business cash advance a typical factor rate might be 1.35 with a holdback of 20% and a term of 15 months. This would equate to a total payback amount of $67,500 over the course the 15 months by holding back 20% of sales each day.
It is obvious to see that a business cash advance is more expensive than traditional lending, but approval rates needs to be taken into account when forming an opinion on this available tool to help a small business grow. At smaller banks business loans are approved roughly 45% of the time while at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) are approving small business loans at an atrocious sub 10% level. Business Cash Advance approval rates on the other hand are up near 85%-90%.
Although the costs are somewhat elevated so too is to the risk to the lending institution supplying them. Basing a loan on just a few months of sales data is a dangerous undertaking. This is why the lenders of a business cash advance take on a more proactive approach when collecting their money. The borrower will either have to currently be using or change to one of the lender's approved credit card processing companies. The lender then is able to automatically withdraw a certain percentage of the daily credit card sales straight from processing until the business cash advance is paid off.