Your prepayments co-insured on your credit insurance policy?

Published on 11/12/2015

Your supplier may request an upfront payment because they need to incur costs for goods or services that are going to be delivered to you. The sums involved may be substantial and this carries the risk that you may lose your advance payment due to bankruptcy, suspension of payments or debt restructuring, of your supplier. If you have credit insurance, you can include these advance payments in your policy.

Insurers make it a condition that the supplier must be creditworthy, through a credit limit decision approving this cover. The value of the prepayment must be declared under the policy. Many times, the same premium rate applies.

Credit risk coverage

Credit risk cover begins when you make an advance payment to the supplier and ends when the goods or services are delivered to you or when the advance payment is repaid to you. A maximum period is set between the date of the prepayment and the contractually agreed delivery date of the goods or services. Often no longer than 6 months.

What to do in case of insolvency?

In the event that your supplier becomes insolvent and cannot meet its obligations, a payment will be made by the insurer on the net invoice amounts paid in advance and received by your supplier up to the amount of the credit limit.

The Xolv team will be happy to inform you further about this additional insurance that gives you extra security in doing business.

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