Credit Archives - Professional Builders Merchant

EchoPay toolkit “puts margin control back in merchants’ hands”

|Date: 16 Jul 2026

EchoPay toolkit “puts margin control back in merchants’ hands”

EchoPay's merchant toolkit pairs commercial card surcharging with pay-by-bank to give builders’, electric ...

EchoPay's merchant toolkit pairs commercial card surcharging with pay-by-bank to give builders’, electrical, plumbing and timber merchants “two practical levers against rising card costs.” ...

16 Jul 2026
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Staying ahead on credit

|Date: 29 Jan 2026

Staying ahead on credit

Reflecting on some of the recent troubling industry developments, Ten-25 Software MD Ian Oldrey offers so ...

Reflecting on some of the recent troubling industry developments, Ten-25 Software MD Ian Oldrey offers some words of advice on managing risk and credit exposure. ...

29 Jan 2026
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Credit where it’s due

|Date: 26 Jan 2026

Credit where it’s due

Border Merchant Systems recently marked its 35th anniversary. PBM tracks the company’s development, with ...

Border Merchant Systems recently marked its 35th anniversary. PBM tracks the company’s development, with a focus on its latest innovations including a new credit monitoring service. ...

26 Jan 2026
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GFTM launches to help builders’ merchants identify bad payers — for free

|Date: 26 Jun 2025

GFTM launches to help builders’ merchants identify bad payers — for free

A powerful new Fintech platform, GFTM (Good For The Money), has launched to help UK builders’ merchants i ...

A powerful new Fintech platform, GFTM (Good For The Money), has launched to help UK builders’ merchants identify bad payers in real time — at no cost to those who share data. ...

26 Jun 2025
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Direct Line research reveals concerning extent of late payments to UK tradespeople

|Date: 14 Oct 2024

Direct Line research reveals concerning extent of late payments to UK tradespeople

With implications for the merchant sector and the wider building materials supply chain, new research fro ...

With implications for the merchant sector and the wider building materials supply chain, new research from Direct Line business insurance reveals that 81% of tradespeople are owed money and are curren ...

14 Oct 2024
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