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Business funding

Business funding for the weeks cash runs short

Choose the amount the gap needs. One short application, free to send, and a funding specialist matches your shortfall to the programme built for that shape of gap.

  • Free to apply
  • Nothing agreed until you accept
  • Takes a couple of minutes

The application is the way in, and it takes about two minutes.

Where cash flow pinches

The gaps are predictable. So is what fills them.

Most businesses run short at the same few moments every year, and know roughly when. Here is each one, and the programme that fits that shape of gap.

  1. A craftsman in his apron in the workshop, one of the people paid on Friday.

    Every payday

    Wages go out before the invoices come in

    The work is done and billed, but your customers pay on their terms, not yours. The team still expects paying on Friday.

    What fits

    Working Capital →
    • Up to $1M
    • 24 – 48 hours

    Working capital is made for the stretch between invoicing and being paid, and it clears on a short term once the money lands.

  2. A shop owner counting bottles on her shelves before the busy weeks.

    Ahead of the busy season

    Stock has to be bought before it can be sold

    Shelves get filled weeks before the customers arrive, and the till only catches up once they do.

    What fits

    Short Term Business Loan →
    • $10K – $1M
    • 1 – 2 days

    A gap with a known end suits a short-term loan: borrow ahead of the rush, repay as the season sells through.

  3. A quiet high street under its bunting, between customers.

    The quiet month

    Trade dips, the bills do not

    Rent, insurance and the lease stay the same size when footfall halves. Most owners can name their slow month before it comes.

    What fits

    Business Line of Credit →
    • Up to $1M
    • 1 – 2 days

    A line of credit waits unused until that month, then you draw only what it needs and pay only for what you draw.

  4. A grocer beside pallets of fresh produce, an order bigger than most.

    When the big job lands

    An order larger than the float

    A customer asks for more than you have ever supplied at once. Materials, labour and delivery all come before the payment does.

    What fits

    Term Loan →
    • $20K – $1M
    • Within 24 hours

    A term loan puts one sum behind the whole job, on a fixed schedule you can build into the price.

  5. A woodworker checking her tablet in the workshop while a job waits.

    Any morning, unannounced

    A repair that cannot wait

    The cooler stops, the van will not start, the oven fails its check. Every day it stays broken is a day of lost trade.

    What fits

    Revenue-Based Funding →
    • $5K – $500K
    • 24 – 48 hours

    Revenue-based funding can move in a day or two because it leans on your card sales, not your credit file. If it needs replacing rather than fixing, equipment financing spreads the cost over the machine's working life.

Not sure which of these you are in? You do not need to be. Tell us the amount and what it is for, and the matching is our side of the job.

How it works

From the gap to the money, in three steps

Short to fill in, and the comparing is done with you rather than left to you.

Step 01

Tell us where the pinch is

The amount, how to reach you, and a few questions about the business. There are no documents to gather first and nothing to pay.

  • Free to apply
  • No paperwork to start
  • No obligation to accept
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Step 02

We match the gap to its programme

A funding specialist looks at the shape of the shortfall — how big, how long, how it gets repaid — and takes it to the lenders most likely to fund a business like yours.

  • One application, many lenders
  • Matched to how long the gap lasts
  • Every offer gathered in one place
Several pairs of hands, each holding a seedling.

Step 03

Choose, knowing the full cost

You see what each offer costs over its whole term and how the repayments sit against your takings. Accept one and, once approved, the money can arrive in as little as 24 hours.

  • The total repaid, not only the rate
  • Repayments set against your cash flow
  • Funding in as little as 24 hours once approved
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The six

Six programmes, six shapes of gap

Each is built for a different kind of shortfall: how large it is, how long it lasts and what pays it back.

Steady hands

Help that does not add to the squeeze

A short month is stressful enough without funding that makes the next one tighter. So a few things stay the same whatever you apply for.

Sized to the gap
We would rather you borrow what the shortfall actually needs than the most a lender will offer.
Repayments in plain view
Daily, weekly or monthly, set out before you sign, so you can see how they sit against your takings.
Straight answers
If an offer would leave the business worse off, your specialist will say so, and you are free to walk away.
Nothing out of pocket
Applying costs nothing, and seeing your options commits you to nothing.

The network's figures

The lending network behind the application

80+lenders in the network
25,000businesses funded
24 hrsto funding once approved

These are the totals of the lending network Vital Business Funding works through, not figures for this brand on its own.

When you are ready

Know where your pinch is? Start there.

The application sits at the top of this page and on a page of its own. Choose the amount the gap needs, and a specialist will match it to a programme.

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