Business Credit can be a seasonal thing
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009It’s a known business fact that retailers produce 70% or more of their annual income during the holiday shopping season. If you have good cash flow and you buy inventory all year long for that month or so of booming business you might be ready.
But in truth, most businesses are doing or have done their holiday stock orders by September and it’s usually done using their business credit. Many businesses, even the large solvent looking ones, use business credit to stock up for the selling blitz at years end. You can’t be sourcing and ordering in mid November so you need business credit to make those purchases early and get the best pricing and delivery from your wholesalers.
Business credit can come in a few forms. For the smaller mom and pop stores, business credit can be in the form of a personal or business credit card. Using your personal credit card for your incorporated business credit provides some tax and money making opportunities. But the safest way is for the incorporated business to have its own business credit card for small purchases. Larger inventory procurements are better funded with a line of business credit supplied by your regular banker. That way payouts and repayment can be scheduled to your advantage. Just having business credit alone without someone to manage it can be an expanse out of control. The same amount of business credit properly managed can leverage more profit than normal if it is budgeted and shopped for properly.

