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WH Smith Travel Limited

Registered as WH SMITH TRAVEL LIMITED. Company number 06560378. 18 payment practices reports on file, the latest for the period ending 31 August 2026, filed 30 September 2026.

56days on average to pay

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

In the reporting period from 1 March 2026 to 31 August 2026, WH Smith Travel Limited reported that it took an average of 56 days to pay its suppliers' invoices. It paid 40% of invoices within 30 days, 31% in 31 to 60 days and 29% after more than 60 days. It said 30% of invoices were not paid within the agreed terms.

That average is faster than 11% of the 6,220 companies whose latest report covers a period ending since May 2025. A year earlier, in the period to 31 August 2025, the average was 58 days, so it is 2 days faster now.

Average days to pay, report by report

30 68 Feb 2021 73 Aug 2021 64 Feb 2022 63 Aug 2022 72 Feb 2023 80 Aug 2023 53 Feb 2024 67 Aug 2024 66 Feb 2025 58 Aug 2025 51 Feb 2026 56 Aug 2026

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 2026 30 Sep 2026 56 40%31%29%30% Report
Sep 2025 to Feb 2026 27 Mar 2026 51 39%32%29%30% Report
Mar to Aug 2025 30 Sep 2025 58 31%35%34%33% Report
Sep 2024 to Feb 2025 27 Mar 2025 66 28%36%36%31% Report
Mar to Aug 2024 24 Sep 2024 67 24%37%39%28% Report
Sep 2023 to Feb 2024 28 Mar 2024 53 24%55%21%20% Report
Mar to Aug 2023 19 Sep 2023 80 31%35%34%25% Report
Sep 2022 to Feb 2023 27 Mar 2023 72 33%32%35%19% Report
Mar to Aug 2022 13 Sep 2022 63 33%32%35%18% Report
Sep 2021 to Feb 2022 14 Mar 2022 64 33%33%34%19% Report
Mar to Aug 2021 11 Sep 2021 73 32%34%34%21% Report
Sep 2020 to Feb 2021 15 Mar 2021 68 29%35%36%22% Report
Mar to Aug 2020 11 Sep 2020 77 23%33%44%25% Report
Sep 2019 to Feb 2020 14 Mar 2020 63 30%33%37%25% Report
Mar to Aug 2019 12 Sep 2019 54 34%46%20%21% Report
Sep 2018 to Feb 2019 13 Mar 2019 56 34%36%30%22% Report
Mar to Aug 2018 20 Sep 2018 59 30%39%31%23% Report
Sep 2017 to Feb 2018 29 Mar 2018 46 51%28%21%17% 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.