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Finance 1 min read Published 3 June 2026

The supplier-payment tweak that gives you 14 extra days of cash

Almost every hospitality supplier accepts net-21 if you ask. Most venues pay net-7 because nobody renegotiated.

If your produce, seafood and meat suppliers are on weekly payment, you’re a low-priority customer to renegotiate but a high-priority customer to keep. The asymmetry works in your favour.

The single-email ask

Hi, we’re doing a cashflow tidy and want to move all supplier accounts onto net-21 from the [date]. Happy to set up direct debit. Let me know if there’s anything I need to confirm.

9 out of 10 suppliers will say yes. The 10th will say net-14 — take it. You’ve just freed up 14 days of working capital that was sitting in the next week’s payment run.

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