Teya Cash Advance is a revenue-based finance product that provides flexible funding to customers using Teya card acceptance. Based on your transaction history, you can get access to future card sales as an upfront sum of cash, with a fixed fee. Teya has partnered with Liberis to bring Cash Advance to its merchants.
More about Teya Cash Advance
- If eligible, you’ll receive an offer with available cash advances. Once you’ve selected your funding level, Liberis will agree on a price with you. This is one fixed cost added to your advance, which will form your total repayment. To process your application, Liberis will look at your business and conduct some checks, including affordability, credit, and insolvency.
- No, Cash Advance isn’t a loan. It’s an alternative form of financing that, unlike a traditional loan, does not have a fixed repayment term nor recurring interest or APRs.
- Yes. Choose your preferred funding amount (within limits) and the percentage of your card transactions that you’d like to pay towards the advance. This will determine the funding fee and the overall amount that you’ll pay.
- Liberis is a global embedded finance platform, based in the UK. Teya has partnered with Liberis to offer the Cash Advance product to its merchants.
- Cash Advance is best suited for businesses that conduct the majority of their sales via a card terminal.
Funding
- This depends on your business sales. Liberis will examine your monthly card transactions and give you a personalised funding amount.
- If contracts are signed and the settlement account change has taken place before 4pm, you’ll receive your funds by 6pm the same day (Monday to Friday).
- No, it’s not possible to immediately change the total amount that you’ve received. However, you may be eligible to top up your funds once you’ve repaid a minimum of 50%.
- The total amount you owe is your funding amount plus a fixed fee. You won’t pay any interest or any other fees, ever.
- Once you’ve provided all the necessary information and signed your contract, it can take up to 48 hours for your funding to arrive.
- Yes. Once you’ve paid 50% of your existing advance, you may be eligible for additional funding.
- If you repay your advance, you may be eligible for additional funding. Note that you do not have to repay your advance early to gain access to additional funding.
Credit Checks
- Once you’ve submitted an application, Liberis will use a number of sources to understand your business. Liberis carries out company and consumer credit bureau searches, which will leave a record of the search on both credit files. Your credit score won’t be affected when applying with Liberis.
- No. Cash Advance is an unsecured type of finance access and unlike traditional loans, no collateral is taken.
- Yes, you’ll require a personal guarantee if you’re applying as a limited company or limited liability partnership.
Repayments
- Yes, you can make a lump sum payment or pay the total amount outstanding at any point by contacting support. You won’t incur additional fees for early payment. There's no reduction in overall cost either, as the fee is agreed upon upfront and fixed from the outset.
- A fixed percentage of your daily card sales is automatically deducted until your advance is fully paid. If sales are up one day, you pay more - if you have a slow day, you pay less. You must pay a monthly minimum of 3% to Liberis.
- We don’t currently have a single interface reconciling all transactions at Teya. Please visit the Cash Advance website to view your payments. The amount displayed on your settlement report – and in your business portal – is pre-Cash Advance deductions.
- Yes. Please contact the Liberis Customer Support.
- Don’t worry. We only take payments from you when you get payments from your customers. If you’re not able to transact for seven days or more, please let us know. You’ll still be required to meet the 3% minimum monthly amount (MMA).
- Missing the MMA once will have no impact. If you miss it for 28 consecutive days, the Liberis Payment Assistance team will contact you to discuss how they can assist you.
- No, we ask you to stay with Teya for the duration of your advance.
- We don’t typically allow our merchants to do this, but please contact Liberis Customer Support if you’re struggling to make payments.
- This depends on your transaction history. However, you’ll be given an estimated timeframe at the outset – typically between six months to one year.
- This is an operational account opened in the business owner’s name that allows Liberis to collect Cash Advance payments via a ‘split’. When Teya settles the business owner on the following business day, the funds arrive in the settlement account. The split happens instantly and the remaining funds are passed on to the owner. There is no delay in the settlement.
Account Issues and Communications
- Yes. Please call our Customer Support team.
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- Please contact Liberis Customer Support.
Eligibility
- Teya and Liberis determine your eligibility based on a number of different factors, including your time with Teya card acceptance, your processing volume, and the frequency of transactions, among other factors.
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In addition to the minimum requirements, other factors could impact your eligibility and the size of your Teya Cash Advance offer. These can include:
- A steady processing record. – a consistent processing record with limited periods of low or zero volume. This shows stability and increases your eligibility likelihood.
- A growing business. – how much you process through Teya will influence the size of your funding offer. Businesses with positive growth trajectories are more likely to qualify for eligibility.
- Can I have feedback on my eligibility? If you have any questions regarding your offer eligibility, reach out to us directly. See our Privacy Notice for more information.