Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Stearn Electric Company Limited pays suppliers in 56 days on average — 26 days past its stated terms

CRN 00201097 · Wholesale & retail trade · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

56daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 26 days past the 30-day term they state.

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers

Their stated terms: 30 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 8% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 45%
Reporting period: 1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 29 Jul 2026

Self-reported figures from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 26 days past their stated terms

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–65

avg 56d

0 days65 days

reported avg 56 days their filed terms 30 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 14% 31–60 days 41% 61+ days 45%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #114789, period 1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026, filed 29 Jul 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Stearn Electric Company Limited pays 26 days past its own stated terms. 8% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 45% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2026 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

61 → 56 days — getting faster

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 16 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

5 days faster across the window. From 61 days in H1 2023 to 56 in the H1 2026 filing; the dashed line marks the 30-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Stearn Electric Company Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 56 days against stated terms of 30 days; 8% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 45% took 61 days or longer. Filed 29 Jul 2026.

The direction is faster: from 61 days in H1 2023 to 56 now — 5 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 84% of the 815 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

That is 16 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Payment Terms including any standard contractual length of time for payment of invoices and the maximum contractual payment period, any changes to standard terms, whether suppliers have been notified or consulted on these changes.

Dispute resolution

Debit notes are raised against invoices in dispute. These are authorised by the manager of the relevant trading location and sent to the supplier for their records. If a supplier disputes a debit note or has a payment query, they should contact the accounts payable team or the manager of the relevant trading location. Disputes should be resolved within 60 days of the supplier receiving the debit note.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	56	8%	45%	29 Jul 2026
H2 2025	57	9%	47%	30 Jan 2026
H1 2025	58	8%	47%	31 Jul 2025
H2 2024	58	8%	48%	31 Jan 2025
H2 2023	60	9%	49%	30 Jul 2024
H1 2023	61	9%	51%	31 Jul 2023
H2 2022	74	10%	54%	31 Jan 2023
H1 2022	64	11%	53%	28 Jul 2022
H2 2021	65	8%	55%	31 Jan 2022
H1 2021	64	9%	56%	30 Jul 2021
H2 2020	64	11%	54%	28 Jan 2021
H1 2020	65	10%	55%	31 Jul 2020
H2 2019	64	8%	54%	31 Jan 2020
H1 2019	66	8%	59%	29 Jul 2019
H2 2018	66	9%	58%	31 Jan 2019
H1 2018	69	21%	62%	31 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 18 Oct 1924
Registered office: VOTEC HOUSE, NEWBURY, RG14 5TN

1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 56-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 56-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £22,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 56-day cycle — about £10,200 more than the same account would carry at 30-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 lets a supplier charge statutory interest and fixed compensation on invoices paid past agreed terms. Work out what a late invoice is worth → Whether it applies depends on your contract — check with an adviser.

Quick answers · Stearn Electric Company Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 5 days faster over the window (61 → 56 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 56; across their last 6 reports it ranged 56–61 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?

UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.

What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?

The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.

How often is this data updated?

Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.

Is this official government data?

The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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