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E-Act

Registered as E-ACT. Company number 06526376. 16 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 31 August 2025, filed 22 September 2025.

34days on average to pay

  • Within 30 days
  • 31 to 60 days
  • Over 60 days

In the reporting period from 1 March 2025 to 31 August 2025, E-Act reported that it took an average of 34 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 63% of invoices within 30 days, 29% in 31 to 60 days and 8% after more than 60 days. It said 37% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 42% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. A year earlier, in the period to 31 August 2024, the average was 36 days, so it is 2 days faster now.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 40 Feb 2020 50 Aug 2020 29 Feb 2021 35 Aug 2021 34 Feb 2022 35 Aug 2022 36 Feb 2023 33 Aug 2023 36 Feb 2024 36 Aug 2024 42 Feb 2025 34 Aug 2025

Bars are labelled with the month the period ended. The dashed line marks 30 days.

Every report filed

PeriodFiledAverage daysWithin 30 days31 to 60Over 60Not within termsSource
Mar to Aug 2025 22 Sep 2025 34 63%29%8%37% Report
Sep 2024 to Feb 2025 31 Mar 2025 42 40%46%14%60% Report
Mar to Aug 2024 25 Sep 2024 36 56%36%8%46% Report
Sep 2023 to Feb 2024 28 Mar 2024 36 60%31%9%46% Report
Mar to Aug 2023 29 Sep 2023 33 74%18%8%26% Report
Sep 2022 to Feb 2023 30 Mar 2023 36 71%17%12%30% Report
Mar to Aug 2022 30 Sep 2022 35 65%26%9%39% Report
Sep 2021 to Feb 2022 14 Mar 2022 34 67%23%10%37% Report
Mar to Aug 2021 29 Sep 2021 35 69%22%9%36% Report
Sep 2020 to Feb 2021 12 Mar 2021 29 68%24%8%32% Report
Mar to Aug 2020 30 Sep 2020 50 57%23%20%43% Report
Sep 2019 to Feb 2020 14 Apr 2020 40 60%26%14%40% Report
Mar to Aug 2019 27 Sep 2019 44 54%30%16%46% Report
Sep 2018 to Feb 2019 25 Mar 2019 40 57%28%15%43% Report
Mar to Aug 2018 27 Sep 2018 43 51%31%18%49% Report
Sep 2017 to Feb 2018 28 Mar 2018 31 68%21%11%37% Report

Source: the company's filings on Check payment practices. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as filed. We do not change them.