Offering Finance
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technodup

Original Poster:

7,661 posts

160 months

Saturday 17th February 2018
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How easy/difficult is it to offer finance to customers?

In the old days if you wanted to take direct debits it was difficult and expensive to do through a bank, now GoCardless and the like allow the wee guy to do it pretty simply.

Is there a similar service for credit? Where essentially you take advantage of someone else's licence and

TBH it's not a road I want to go down but I feel we're losing money by not offering payment terms. Product is in the £3-8k range and sold in customers homes fwiw.

Insurancejon

4,099 posts

276 months

Saturday 17th February 2018
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you will need to register with the FCA as a starter for ten, but its not as onerous or complicated as you think.

then you will need a provider such as Close brothers or Hitachi