Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Communisis PLC take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 02916113 · Professional & technical services · 1 statutory report on record · period to 30 Jun 2018

73days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Well behindvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

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

Dated record. The latest report covers a period ending 30 Jun 2018 and the company hasn’t filed since (it may have dropped below the reporting threshold). Treat the figures as historical.

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: In Administration/Administrative Receiver
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 6 Apr 1994
Registered office: C/O INTERPATH LIMITED 4TH FLOOR, TAILORS CORNER, LEEDS, LS1 4DP

4 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Dec 2023

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30–120 days. Reported average: 73.

Stated terms30–120d

+43 days

Reported avg73d

At a glance

The key figures

30–120d

their stated terms

61%

invoices paid outside terms

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Slower than 95% of the 530 large companies reporting in professional & technical services.

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 15% 31–60 days 27% 61+ days 58%

The read · computed from their figures

Communisis PLC has filed 1 statutory payment period (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 73 days against stated terms of 30–120 days.

In the latest period 61% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 58% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

Offers supply-chain finance

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Communisis Plc, as standard, pays all its suppliers and distributors no later than the last day of the month following the month in which the relevant undisputed invoice is received by Communisis Plc i.e. between 31 and 61 days from receipt. Variations to these standard payment terms are applied when negotiated and agreed by both parties.

Dispute resolution

If at any time a query, dispute or difference arises between Communisis Plc and its supplier, typically under supply agreements the parties are expected to escalate the dispute to senior representatives of the parties who will use reasonable endeavours to resolve the dispute in good faith and within an acceptable time period. For Communisis Plc, the senior representative would commonly be the relevant Category Manager, with further escalation points being the Head of / Director of the relevant functional area.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2018	73	61%	58%	1 Aug 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 73-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 73-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £29,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 73-day cycle — about £17,000 more than the same account would carry at 30-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

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 73. 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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