Acorn Finance
Free / freemiumLender marketplace with no dealer fee on many offers
Best for: Contractors who want to offer financing while protecting margin
Material financing to bridge the pay-when-paid gap
Billd pays your supplier up front and gives you extended terms, which addresses the structural cash-flow problem in contracting: you buy material on day one and get paid 60 to 90 days later. For a growing subcontractor, the constraint is usually working capital rather than demand.
Subcontractors whose growth is limited by material cash flow, not sales
Financing cost must be priced into bids, and leaning on it to cover chronically slow collections treats the symptom rather than the disease.
Supplier accounts ยท Accounting exports
Integration lists change often and "integrates" can mean anything from a real two-way sync to a one-way push through Zapier. Ask the vendor which fields move, in which direction, and how often.
Run one real job through it end to end โ not the demo data. Quote it, schedule it, do it, invoice it, take the payment. Then ask the only question that matters on day 400: did the people who have to use this every day find it faster than what they do now? Friction you notice in week one compounds forever, and tool-hopping costs more than any feature gap.
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