{"id":2127,"date":"2020-03-20T10:49:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T05:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rzpwp.blog\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2024-08-12T18:53:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T13:23:26","slug":"early-settlements-cash-flow-working-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/business-banking\/early-settlements-cash-flow-working-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"24x7x365 Settlements Even on Holidays &#8211; Never Run Out of Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does a business need the most to scale and grow from one stage to the next? Customers? Of course! Employees? Sure. Continuous development of their offerings? The answers can be many. But one of the most important requirements is working capital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working capital is required for numerous reasons. And it is important because easy access to money for a business\u2019s day-to-day activities can help improve business convenience greatly. This was the primary reason behind the launch of our Early Settlements feature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/capital\/instant-settlements\/\">Early Settlements<\/a> feature allowed businesses to receive funds on the same working day, there was still the need for them to get funds even on non-working days and in near real-time.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And as usual, we have become the first to solve this problem as well with 24x7x365 On Demand Early Settlements. With this feature update, businesses can now get their funds on any time of the day, any day of the year, even on weekends and <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/learn\/bank-holidays-list-india\/\">bank holidays<\/a>. And that too at a very nominal fee.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The feature will allow businesses to get easy and early access to their money, reducing their daily cash crunch for any kind of operational or non-operational needs, and allowing for better management of inventory and stock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, businesses can trigger \u201cOn-Demand Settlements\u201d at any time from their <a href=\"https:\/\/dashboard.razorpay.com\/signin\">Razorpay dashboard<\/a> by clicking on \u201cSettle Now\u201d under the Settlements Tab. In case you don\u2019t see the option, you can reach out to our <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">support team.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Continue reading further to understand how Razorpay Early Settlements work.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is Razorpay Early Settlements?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Early Settlements, you get access to your funds on the same day instead of your traditional or default settlement cycle. Razorpay Early Settlements helps you reduce your settlement period from T+2 days to within a few minutes (from the time of transaction), thus enabling your business to avoid cash-flow challenges and prepare better for working capital requirements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2129\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"razorpay early settlements\" width=\"413\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image.png 826w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-768x770.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.razorpay.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/image-370x370.png 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A ready inflow of cash that will help you amplify your business, and meet day-to-day cash requirements without any hassles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are the benefits of Early Settlements for your business?<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easy and early access to your money<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reduction in daily cash crunch and increased cash flows<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Better management of inventory and stock<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Payments to creditors and vendors without any delays<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can the settlements be done at any time of the day on any of the days?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, they can. Early settlements can be rolled out on any day, even on holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Razorpay levies a small fee that is deducted from the merchant\u2019s settlement balance. This fee is primarily charged because Razorpay has to bear the subsequent cost of processing the early settlements by taking a loan from loan providers. This deduction takes place only if you decide to process the settlements instantly or on the same day.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who is Early Settlements for?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is technically for every business onboarded on Razorpay. Primarily in the last 6 months, we have seen 30% of e-commerce businesses that have gone live with Razorpay availing the Early Settlement functionalities to power their daily vendor payouts. This is followed by 17% of financial services businesses and 15% of IT services companies. For IT services, a majority of the users are freelance designers or web developers who want quick access to capital for the work they have done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We carry out risk checks (around refund rates, chargebacks, etc) before offering this feature to any business. To sum up, though we have seen a high traction among the industries mentioned above, businesses from almost every industry has availed Early Settlement and it has seen a high repeat rate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To explore more about Early Settlements, click <\/span><a style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#039;Segoe UI&#039;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &#039;Helvetica Neue&#039;, sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/capital\/\">here<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/settlements-transparency-working-capital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manage Working Capital Easily with 100% Visibility in Settlements<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ready inflow of cash can help you amplify your business, and meet day-to-day cash requirements without any hassles.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":2130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,27],"tags":[36],"class_list":{"0":"post-2127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"category-business-banking","9":"tag-entrepreneurship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17232,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/17232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razorpay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}