Revenue-Based Financing: What It Is, Pros, Cons

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What you'll get

How revenue-based financing works: you get a lump sum and repay a fixed multiple of it out of a share of monthly revenue, so payments rise and fall with sales. It also lists the businesses it suits poorly, like seasonal, thin-margin or pre-revenue ones.

Do this week

Using your last three months of revenue, work out what a $50,000 advance with a 1.3x cap and a 5% revenue share would cost in total, and how many months it would take to repay.