Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Tom Martin & Company Limited pays suppliers in 35 days on average — within its stated 28–61 day terms

CRN 00990667 · Wholesale & retail trade · 7 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

35daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 7 days past the shortest term they state (28 days), still within their 61-day upper term.

Around averagevs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers

Their stated terms: 28–61 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 2% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 1%
Reporting period: 1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 27 Jul 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid within their stated range — 35 against 28–61 days

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–70

avg 35d

0 days70 days

reported avg 35 days their filed terms 28–61 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 76% 31–60 days 23% 61+ days 1%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #113808, period 1 Jan 2026 – 30 Jun 2026, filed 27 Jul 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Tom Martin & Company Limited pays within its stated range, 7 days past the shortest term. 2% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 1% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2026 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 7 reports

32 → 35 days — slowing down

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 7 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

3 days slower across the window. From 32 days in H1 2019 to 35 in the H1 2026 filing; the dashed line marks the 28-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Tom Martin & Company Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 35 days against stated terms of 28–61 days; 2% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 1% took 61 days or longer. Filed 27 Jul 2026.

The direction is slower: from 32 days in H1 2019 to 35 now — 3 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 57% of the 815 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

That is 7 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Month end following

Dispute resolution

In this business sector it is common to use weighbridge of the receiving party, therefore genuine invoice disputes are rare.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	35	2%	1%	27 Jul 2026
H1 2024	35	16%	2%	19 Aug 2024
H2 2020	28	44%	4%	18 Jan 2021
H1 2020	43	54%	28%	27 Jul 2020
H2 2019	34	52%	6%	5 Feb 2020
H1 2019	32	25%	4%	19 Jul 2019
H2 2018	37	29%	7%	17 Jul 2019

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 1 Oct 1970
Registered office: UNIT 123 SEEDLEE ROAD, PRESTON, PR5 8AE

3 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 35-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 35-day vs a 28-day payment cycle.

≈ £14,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 35-day cycle — about £2,800 more than the same account would carry at 28-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 · Tom Martin & Company Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 3 days slower over the window (32 → 35 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 35; across their last 6 reports it ranged 28–43 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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