Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Vodafone Global Enterprise Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 02844851 · Information & communication · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2026

31days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Around averagevs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

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

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 16 Aug 1993
Registered office: VODAFONE HOUSE, NEWBURY, RG14 2FN

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 0–155 days. Reported average: 31.

Stated terms0–155d

+31 days

Reported avg31d

At a glance

The key figures

0–155d

their stated terms

11%

invoices paid outside terms

-22d

faster over the window

±30d

variable pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Slower than 57% of the 475 large companies reporting in information & communication.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 81% 31–60 days 13% 61+ days 6%

The read · computed from their figures

Vodafone Global Enterprise Limited has filed 16 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 31 days against stated terms of 0–155 days.

The direction is faster: from 53 to 31 days over the window — about 22 days faster.

In the latest period 11% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 6% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

Offers e-invoicing Offers supply-chain finance

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

The percentages provided in the payment statistics above include payments made to Vodafone Group entities providing goods or services to Vodafone Global Enterprise Limited. Vodafone intercompany payment terms include many transactions with payment terms up to 115 days. These payments are included in our reported statistics as required and this therefore impacts the payment statistics. If intercompany payments are excluded from the statistics, they are as follows: Average time to pay in days – 25 Split of payments made under qualifying contracts in the reporting period A) Percentage of invoices paid between day 1 and day 30 (inclusive) – 94% B) Percentage of invoices paid between day 31 and day 60 (inclusive) – 5% C) Percentage of invoices paid on or after day 61 – 1% Payments

Dispute resolution

Any disputes on individual invoices should be raised to the Vodafone Accounts Payable team via our Supplier Digital Portal (http://supplier.ariba.com/) who will work with the supplier to resolve the issue. The supplier will generally receive a response the next day but we aim to respond to all queries within 5 working days. Vodafone Global Enterprise Limited does not currently have a process which records the percentage of payments not made within the payment period as a result of a dispute. As we are unable to accurately report our position, we have entered 0% whilst we work towards correcting this for future submissions.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	31	11%	6%	30 Apr 2026
H2 2025	49	10%	6%	30 Apr 2026
H1 2025	48	13%	6%	30 Apr 2025
H2 2024	90	7%	51%	6 Nov 2024
H1 2024	78	15%	37%	25 Apr 2024
H2 2023	53	8%	24%	30 Oct 2023
H1 2023	72	11%	31%	27 Apr 2023
H2 2022	101	11%	30%	26 Oct 2022
H1 2022	75	8%	28%	27 Apr 2022
H2 2021	91	10%	34%	25 Oct 2021
H1 2021	112	13%	45%	27 Apr 2021
H2 2020	62	9%	25%	28 Oct 2020
H1 2020	82	8%	26%	27 Apr 2020
H2 2019	58	5%	24%	30 Oct 2019
H1 2019	62	3%	23%	29 Apr 2019
H2 2018	56	3%	21%	25 Oct 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 31-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 31-day vs a 0-day payment cycle.

≈ £12,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 31-day cycle — about £12,200 more than the same account would carry at 0-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act 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

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 22 days faster over the window (53 → 31 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 31, moving within about ±30 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 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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