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Understand the importance of company credit checks
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How confident are you that your invoices will get paid? Do you have a robust risk management process in place to prevent your firm from becoming collateral damage should your customer move into administration? How do you know that your customers or prospects have the funds - or the intention - to settle their accounts? Have you applied solid company monitoring alerts which enable you to react when a customer's financial stability changes?
These are all important questions that need answering, as it is no longer enough to rely on good faith alone. All successful businesses understand the importance of carrying out sufficient due diligence to fully understand their customers prior to entering into a business relationship, making sure that they have full transparency of a customer's trading history, as well as visibility of the financial health of a company to set realistic credit levels which will prevent any nasty surprises further down the line.
Overview
Registered and trading addresses, status, aims, contact details, SIC codes, bank and auditors, and group companies
Credit score and health rating
Credit score, credit limit and creditor days
Detrimental data
Details of County Court Judgments, legal notices and High Court Writs
Filing history
Access to any Companies House filed documents
Profit and loss
Where full company accounts are filed, details of revenue, costs, and expenses for up to 10 years demonstrating current trends in financial performance
Balance sheet
Assets, liabilities and capital
Ratio analysis
Indicators of company performance and financial stability
Director & shareholder structure
Directors, voting rights, shareholding structures, parent companies and cross associations
Debenture details
Mortgages and charges held as business security
Why do I need to execute a credit report?
It is vital in today's fluctuating market that you are working with accurate and up-to-date company intelligence, especially if your business model includes extending credit. In its simplest form, a brief Company House check will enable you to find company information and provide you with basic, yet important details as to trading addresses, a company registration number check that confirms that it correlates with said firm and what the business status is (whether a company is trading or not).
However, this type of company search is not enough to equip you with all the business information that you need to build an accurate picture of your customers or prospects. Companies House will not provide the correct level of business insight into credit information, days sales outstanding or insights into the presence of any CCJs or detrimental data and can therefore leave many creditors vulnerable when setting payment terms.
Executing the correct level of business check processes will help you to ascertain vital company information such as ownership checks, a company name checker, suggested credit ratings, director insights and shareholder structures, a financial health check with up to ten years accounting history as well as stability indicators and creditworthiness.
Our online unlimited company checks on over 5 million UK companies and businesses
Subscribers to identeco Business Support Toolkit can carry out immediate and unlimited company searches, providing the appropriate level of due diligence for one annual subscription fee. The online portal provides immediate, in-depth intelligence on over 5 million UK registered companies and businesses. Our company reporting service enables you to search by company name, registration number, business name, or director.
From here, subscribers can access detailed company information and intelligence which includes company information such as turnover and financial reports, directors and shareholder information and any cross associations, auditing data, filed documents, credit ratings, and financial health information as well as any detrimental data such a CCJs that may exist for that customer.
And not only that - we help to future-proof you too: subscribers can set up ongoing company monitoring on any UK company or business to receive a series of alerts and notifications when a customer's business stability changes. This could be a downward turn in their financial health, a change of trading address or the appearance of a CCJ. This information puts you in the driving seat, protecting you from unnecessary risk and vulnerabilities.
What our customers say
The team at identeco have been a pleasure to deal with and have gone above and beyond to deal with our bespoke needs. They have enabled us to improve our business strategy and make us feel more comfortable in the businesses we are trading with. I would not hesitate to recommend their services to any business that require such piece of mind when trading in the B2B market space. We look forward to being a valued client for many years to come
Bobby Russell
Managing Director at Contact FinanceWe have used identeco's service for several months and found it to be excellent value for money.
Sean Hemmings
Credit ReformBrilliant product and team. This is our second year using the product and it has been very useful. The identeco system itself is user friendly, with large levels of easily readable and useful information. The supporting team are friendly and knowledgeable.
Kevin Billingham
CFS Representative Senior at FedEx Express UK LimitedI've used identeco several times now and it's provided me, as a freelance Social Media Manager, with a huge amount of reassurance when considering taking on new clients. I've been able to check their financial status and I can be pre-warned if they don't have a favorable payment history!
Laura
Social Media Manager at Virtually SavvySuch excellent value for money. I use the portal everyday for checking out business stability. Marketing lists have enabled me to reach my audience and increase business growth
Sonya
Managing Director at Adore Your OutdoorsThe interface is really easy to use and the information available on companies performance helps us decide to extend credit and on what terms. The mail data available is an added bonus and the annual cost is amazing. Customer support is real people. and I cannot recommend a credit check and business support package that is better value
Guy Sinclair
Managing Director at Modus Agencyidenteco is a great platform for any business. It provides a great service and at a great price. We were slow to start but now use the service at least once a day. The team even set up a free training session to ensure we get the best from the software.
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Managing Director at Hayward MillerVery good
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Fantastic Product. For the price, I had a slight reservation as to how helpful this was going to be. I should NOT have been worried - 5 Stars and an Excellent Product!
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Ops Director at Richard Jefferies LimitedGreat product, great service - Easy to use tool that helped our marketing campaign. The data was good quality and very useful. Customer service was really quick and efficient whenever I had a question, which makes the whole thing even better!
Ceri Rogers
Managing Director at NS Events Group LtdService is good, and the turnaround for traces is fast. Highly recommend.
Rebecca
Legal Clerk at Ward HadawayI have used the service on a few occasions to check out businesses details and have been impressed by their service and how thorough the details are. With one particular company highlighted to me that it was not safe to do business with them - so it made me think twice about engaging them. Their customer service is excellent too and all the staff are extremely helpful if you get stuck.
Sadie Skipworth
Social Media Manager at Sadie Skipworth Social MediaExcellent, friendly service with fast turnaround of the results. Just what I was looking for!
Alison Miller
Senior Research Executive at Scott Porter ResearchBeing able to obtain information in one place saves time, and the fee charged on an annual basis is cost effective.
Mike
Managing Director at Debt Solve UKThe portal has become an intrinsic part of our account opening process; giving us the ability to understand credit terms for our customers and set them accordingly. For the price, it's become invaluable to our business.
Oliver
Sales Director at CJUK
