I recently came across an excellent company that can help exporters like myself based in Asia. In fact, I wish I had known about this company years ago.
Velotrade is a Hong Kong-based company that has offices throughout Asia. Their main focus is to help exporters to finance and discount orders from large and smaller companies based throughout the world. Their system and process are quite easy to use, and we have found them to be an excellent resource.
As a disclaimer, I use Velotrade, but I am not getting any special favors by writing this blog or review of Velotrade. This blog is my own views and experiences with the Velotrade platform.
What is Velotrade?
Velotrade is a financing company That will buy your invoices for a certain percentage and gives you 80% of the invoice amount after shipment and the rest once the bill has been paid. This kind of service is beneficial for manufacturers as it can help you better manage your finances.
On their website, Velotrade defines what they do as follows:
Velotrade is the web-based invoice finance solution to provide you with immediate cash flow by selling your outstanding invoices.
Velotrade Website
6 Services Velotrade Offers (Review Of Services)
Below are 6 points that Velotrade lists on their website as to why people should work with them. I will review each of these 6 points and let you know my own experience with them as I have worked with Velotrade.
- Fund only the invoices you want – TRUE – I have found this to be true. Many other factoring or finance companies have an all-or-nothing approach; they want you to finance all with them or not finance anything. But I have found Velotrade to be quite the opposite- they will allow you to finance exactly what you want to finance, and they do not force you to finance all your invoices with them. I really like and appreciate this flexibility.
- No minimums, no hidden fees – TRUE – Like many people, one of my major concerns was how much will this actually cost us and will the cost be worth it. I was worried about a bunch of hidden fees I would get stuck with and had no idea about. I have found all their fees to not only be reasonable but also to be very straightforward.
- Advance generally distributed within hours – NOT HOURS BUT A DAY – I usually get my money within a few days. I do not call it hours, but on average about a day to about a day and a half, which is extremely fast when it comes to financing orders like this.
- Online transaction management – TRUE – Once I have learned their online system I have really liked it. For us working with Velotrade has been quite seamless, easy, and fast. It will take a bit of time to understand a new system, but once you understand the system and have it set up it is pretty easy to learn and navigate.
- No hard sell for other services – TRUE – So far, everyone I have worked with has been extremely professional and has not tried to sell me or pressure me into buying something else: I have really appreciated this aspect of working with Velotrade.
- Facility available as long as you like – TRUE – We have found no limit on financing with them. Again we appreciate this since in business, and when you are manufacturing and exporting, you need to depend on the cash flow and a service like Velotrade.
Velotrade – Our Personal Experience and Review
When I first heard about Velotrade for one of my customers, I was hesitant as to whether or not we should actually use their services. I was not sure if it was worth the added expense we would have to incur. I was also concerned that the entire process would be quite difficult and would take up a lot of our time without results.
In fact, before I even started working with Velotrade, I contacted a good friend of mine who is based in Hong Kong and has done a lot of financing. I asked him if he knew Veltorade and had any thoughts on them. He told me he did not know them, but they sounded like excellent company and wanted their contacts which I gave him.
I have to say that I was have been very pleasantly surprised by Velotrade. I was at first a skeptic, but now I can see that they are an excellent company for Asian-based manufacturers to work with.
Here are some things that I have discovered through my experience in working with Velotrade:
- Extremely Professional – With all my interactions with Veltotrade, I have found them to be extremely professional. I was immediately assigned a rep in Vietnam named Hoang. Hoang was excellent and capable. He walked me through the entire process of Velotrade and what they do and how they do it. He did not try to oversell their services; I found him to be extremely honest and forthright.
- Basic Documents – Velotrade will ask you for a lot of documents. I would consider most of these basic business documents, but it may take you a bit of time to gather all they need. Even though they were many documents like banking, audits, shareholders, past invoices, etc., it took us a bit of time to gather them all. Be prepared to have to gather and organize your business documents.
- Ease of Use – I was also quite concerned about how difficult it would be to use their platform. But I have to say that their platform has been straightforward to use. Once I understood what needed to be upload, how it needed to be uploaded, it does not take us more than 5 or 10 minutes to prepare all the documents they need to finance an invoice.
- Quick Turn Around Time – Each time we upload an invoice, it goes into an auction. An auction is where Velotrade will say whether or not they will finance the invoice. We have found this approval and process also to be quite easy. Most of our approvals are pretty automatic and quick.
- Ease of Payments – Once I have set up my own bank account with the Velotrade system, transferring the money from one account to the next is effortless. I am not sure if this is because we have a Hong Kong bank account, and their bank is also a Hong Kong account, but we have found it quite easy.
- Communication – I have appreciated their communication. If money comes in, I get an email about the money. If money is transferred to my account, I will also get an email. I have appreciated not having to log in to check this all manually, but to get automatic notices from their system.
- Active Reps – Our rep Hoang with Velotrade has been extremely active. If he sees a problem, he will call me. I have found him to be on top of all the payments. He will remind us if something is behind payment or if there is something we need to do. I have really appreciated this kind of customer service.
If you were looking for a company to help finance your export invoices in Asia, I would highly recommend Velotrade. I have found Velotrade to be a very good company to work with. You can find out more about them and their services by visiting their website or by clicking here.
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