Collection Efforts Come First
We follow up with the customer throughout the term, so most slow payers are resolved long before recourse applies.
Texas Recourse Factoring
The most common and lowest-cost form of factoring. You keep the credit risk on your customers, and in exchange you get better rates and higher advances.
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Recourse Factoring in Texas
In recourse factoring, you sell your invoices and receive an advance just as you would in any factoring arrangement. The difference lies in what happens if a customer never pays. Under a recourse agreement, unpaid invoices come back to you after an agreed period, and you either buy them back, replace them with new invoices, or have the amount deducted from future funding.
Because you, not the factor, carry the risk of customer non-payment, the factor can price the service more competitively. For businesses that sell to established, reliable customers, that trade is usually worth making. The full side-by-side is in our recourse vs. non-recourse guide.
- Generally the lowest factoring fees available
- Advances typically 80% to 90% of invoice value
- Rates starting at 1.2%
- Approval still based mainly on your customers' credit
- Suited to businesses with a dependable customer base
If a Customer Does Not Pay
Recourse is only triggered when an invoice stays unpaid past the agreed window. Here is what that process typically looks like.
The Recourse Window
Your agreement sets how many days an invoice can remain unpaid, commonly around 90 days, before it is returned to you.
Buy Back the Invoice
You can repay the advance on that invoice and take back the receivable to pursue it directly.
Substitute a New Invoice
Many factors allow you to replace the unpaid invoice with a fresh one of similar value instead of paying cash.
Offset Against Future Funding
The balance can be deducted from upcoming advances or reserves, spreading the impact over time.
Why Recourse Factoring Costs Less
A factor prices each agreement around the risk it takes on. When the factor is not insuring against a customer failing to pay, it does not need to build that risk into the fee or hold back as large a reserve. That saving is passed on as a lower rate and often a higher advance.
Your exposure is easy to manage when you know your customers. If most of your invoices go to long-standing accounts that have always paid, recourse lets you stop paying for protection you are unlikely to use. Checking a new customer's credit before you extend terms also reduces the chance of a recourse event in the first place; ask us about credit checks as part of your account.
- No premium for credit insurance built into the fee
- Smaller reserves can mean larger advances
- Credit checks before extending terms help you avoid risky accounts
When Recourse Is the Right Fit
Recourse makes sense when the chance of a customer defaulting is low and keeping costs down matters more than shifting risk.
Blue-Chip or Public Customers
Invoices owed by large corporations, school districts or municipalities rarely end in non-payment.
Long Payment Track Records
Customers you have billed for years without a write-off give you confidence in the risk you keep.
Thin Margins
Distributors and contractors working on tight margins benefit most from every point saved on fees.
Diversified Customer Base
If no single customer represents a large share of your receivables, one slow payer is easier to absorb.
Weighing Your Options
If you sell to newer customers, depend heavily on one or two accounts, or work in an industry where insolvencies are more common, non-recourse factoring may be worth the higher fee. Some businesses mix the two, using recourse for their dependable accounts and asking about protection on riskier ones.
Talk to us about your customer list. We will tell you plainly which structure fits and what each would cost, and you can read more about the decision in when to consider factoring.
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