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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Warner Music International Services Limited pays suppliers in 23 days on average — inside its shortest stated term

CRN 02258593 · Financial services · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2026

23daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 7 days inside the shortest term they state (30 days).

Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
30–60 days
Paid outside agreed terms
77% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
12%
Reporting period
1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 6 May 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 7 days inside the 30-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports

38 → 23 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

Warner Music International Services Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 23 days against stated terms of 30–60 days; 77% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 12% took 61 days or longer. Filed 6 May 2026.

The direction is faster: from 38 days in H2 2023 to 23 now — 15 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 53% of the 638 large companies reporting in financial services.

That is 17 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

All suppliers of goods and services are offered 45 day payment terms from the date of receipt of the invoice by the accounts payable team, except for other Warner Music Group companies, which have typical payment terms of 60 days.  Shorter payment terms may be available by exception if agreed during the contract negotiation period.  Invoices in nearly all cases will only be processed when they include reference to a valid purchase order number, invoices are then paid on weekly payment runs as they fall due.

Dispute resolution

Payment disputes are initially reported to Accounts Payable where a member of the team will investigate the dispute with the account relationship holder. When required the dispute will be escalated to the Accounts Payable Manager & Financial Controller. Once resolved the supplier will be paid in accordance with its payment terms or if the invoice is past its due date then on the next payment run.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20262377%12%6 May 2026
H2 20253136%18%5 Nov 2025
H1 20253338%16%29 Apr 2025
H2 20243445%18%28 Oct 2024
H1 20243443%19%29 Apr 2024
H2 20233846%23%24 Oct 2023
H1 20234544%33%28 Apr 2023
H2 20224130%21%30 Oct 2022
H1 20224746%28%26 Apr 2022
H2 20214845%27%29 Oct 2021
H1 20214244%23%30 Apr 2021
H2 20203357%12%30 Oct 2020
H1 20203857%16%30 Apr 2020
H2 20194154%13%10 Nov 2019
H1 20194347%17%30 Apr 2019
H2 20184469%19%31 Oct 2018
H1 20182010%0%27 Apr 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
16 May 1988
Registered office
CANNON PLACE, 78, LONDON, EC4N 6AF
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Jun 2027

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Quick answers · Warner Music International Services Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 15 days faster over the window (38 → 23 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 23; across their last 6 reports it ranged 23–38 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
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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?
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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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