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Six funding types, each matched to a different kind of bill: a line for repeat gaps, a term loan for one large cost, equipment financing tied to a machine, inventory financing for stock, working capital for short gaps, and a merchant cash advance collected from card sales.
A business line of credit, defined by one Ashland, OH manufacturer's payroll draws
A business line of credit is a limit the business can draw against, pay down and draw against again while the line is open. Whatever stays undrawn earns the funding source nothing in interest.
Illustration only, invented figures: a plant draws $22,500 to cover one payroll while a customer invoice is out. At an annual rate of 12.4%, 30 days on that balance cost $229.32 in interest. When the invoice is paid and the draw is cleared, the full limit is available for the next gap. A six-month resin-and-steel table sits on the line of credit page.
When equipment financing is a loan and when it is a lease: a CNC router at an Ashland, OH cabinet shop
Equipment financing comes in two main shapes. With an equipment loan or an equipment finance agreement, the cabinet shop owns the CNC router from the start and the funding source records a lien on it until the last payment. With a true lease, the lessor owns the router and the shop pays to use it, with a choice at the end that the lease spells out.
- Loan or finance agreement: the router is the shop's asset and the balance is debt
- Lease: the shop rents the machine for the term; ownership stays with the lessor unless a buyout is used
- Either way, the machine itself can be the main security for the funding
Equipment financing has its own page, with six worked cases from a clinic lease to a plant machine. Wiring the router in at the cabinet shop is property work outside this site.
What a merchant cash advance is, set against an Ashland County, OH sit-down restaurant's card sales
Picture a restaurant selling tomorrow's card receipts at a discount today: that trade is the merchant cash advance. That makes it something other than a loan: the provider pays a sum now and collects a set total later as a share of each day's card sales.
Illustration only, invented figures: a sit-down restaurant takes a $16,850 advance priced with a 1.26 factor, so the provider collects $21,231 in all. Say the dining room rings up $1,515 on cards on a typical day: an 11% holdback hands $166.65 of it to the provider, and 128 business days of that, give or take, settle the $21,231. A string of thin card days adds days to that count, and strong ones take days off.
A dining room like this one falls under full-service restaurants (NAICS 722511), a code that held 28 Ashland County, OH employer establishments in 2023 (County Business Patterns).
Secured vs unsecured business loans for an Ashland County, OH survey firm with paid-off instruments
A survey firm that owns its total stations and GPS receivers outright has something to offer as security. A secured loan names collateral, here the instruments, and the funding source files a lien that comes off when the loan is paid. An unsecured loan names no specific asset, so the partner may lean on deposits, revenue and credit instead, and it may still ask the owners to back the debt personally.
- Secured: a lien on named equipment, receivables or other assets
- Unsecured: no named asset; the decision rests on cash flow and credit
- Either kind is paid back on the schedule the offer sets; the lien is what sets them apart
Commercial loan types and the cash advance, set beside the Ashland, OH bill each one is shaped for
| Type | Bill it is shaped for | How it is paid |
|---|---|---|
| Term loan | A records project, office computers or a long-lived machine | The same payment every month until a set end |
| Line of credit | Steel, resin or premium bills that come and go | Interest on the drawn part; the limit refills as it is paid down |
| Working capital loan | Payroll while insurance claims or invoices are unpaid | A short fixed schedule |
| Equipment financing | One machine, from a press to a scan tool | Payments tied to that machine as security |
| Inventory financing | Stock bought ahead of a large order | Paid as the goods sell or on a schedule |
| Merchant cash advance | Card-sales weeks at a restaurant or shop | Taken from each day's card sales; not a loan |
Each of the six has its own page, among them working capital loans and business term loans; the industries page sorts the same funding types by trade.
The blog goes further in three articles: short-term options compared in dollars and days, folding older balances into one term loan and the records behind a request, one at a time.
A business term loan in plain numbers: new workstations for an Ashland County, OH insurance agency
Illustration only, invented figures: an insurance agency replaces six workstations and a server for $18,600 and takes a 36-month term loan at an annual rate of 11.35%. The agency's monthly bill on that loan is $612.03, and thirty-six of them come to $22,033.08, of which $3,433.08 is interest.
That is the whole idea of a business term loan: one sum at the start, a payment that does not move, and a last month known on day one. The term can be set near the working life of what is bought.
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