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Fortel Services Limited pays suppliers in 53 days on average — inside its 91-day stated terms

CRN 03559714 · Construction · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2026

53daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 38 days inside their stated 91-day term.

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
91 days
Paid outside agreed terms
26% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
28%
Reporting period
1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 29 Apr 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 38 days inside the 91-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports

43 → 53 days — slowing down

The read · computed from their figures

Fortel Services Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 53 days against stated terms of 91 days; 26% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 28% took 61 days or longer. Filed 29 Apr 2026.

The direction is slower: from 43 days in H2 2023 to 53 now — 10 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 89% of the 394 large companies reporting in construction.

That is 17 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

10% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

15 Days after 2nd month following invoice

Dispute resolution

Any disputed invoices are referred to the authorising manager to discuss with the supplier to resolve.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 20265326%28%29 Apr 2026
H2 20255728%35%10 Oct 2025
H1 20256824%38%22 Apr 2025
H2 20244311%27%13 Jan 2025
H1 2024455%30%25 Apr 2024
H2 20234314%34%31 Oct 2023
H1 20234322%29%27 Apr 2023
H2 20224314%28%27 Oct 2022
H1 20224526%39%2 May 2022
H2 20213831%32%10 Nov 2021
H1 20214425%27%30 Apr 2021
H2 20204186%26%30 Oct 2020
H1 20204445%33%30 Apr 2020
H2 20194434%35%30 Oct 2019
H1 20194128%28%30 Apr 2019
H2 20185523%23%30 Oct 2018
H1 20185513%35%30 Apr 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
7 May 1998
Registered office
1 DIVERSITY DRIVE, WALSALL, WS2 8DS
1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Jun 2027

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Quick answers · Fortel Services Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 10 days slower over the window (43 → 53 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 53; across their last 6 reports it ranged 43–68 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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