D&B Payment Score

Knowing your customer´s payment behaviour and trends

Changes in payment performance constitutes one of the earliest signals of possible financial difficulty and represents one of the most predictive elements of the likelihood of failure before the filing of official documentation such as a balance sheet.

This data represents an exclusive insight into the up to the minute trading performance of a business as the data is collected systematically on a monthly basis from companies operating in a broad variety of commercial sectors. In addition to providing an assessment of the payment performance of a particular business, this methodical and robust analysis facilitates the comparison of payment performance by industry sectors.

D&B Payment Score
Score	Payment Behaviour
100	Anticipating
90	With discount
80	On time
70	15 days delayed
60	22 days delayed
50	30 days delayed
40	60 days delayed
30	90 days delayed
20	120 days delayed
10	150 days delayed
0	180 days delayed
UN	Not Available

Payment data is available in all D&B Business Information Reports, from the essential days beyond terms figure in our D&B Compact Reports to industry payment comparisons in our D&B Comprehensive Reports.

Each year, via the Dun-trade Program, D&B collects millions of trading payment experiences from participants to this program in order to analyse the payment performance of companies. The results of this analysis are represented by the D&B Payment Score which reflects how the subject company pays its bills.

The D&B Payment Score is available in D&B Global Decision Maker and in the Monitoring notices.

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