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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Vodafone Group Services Limited pays suppliers in 47 days on average — inside its 185-day stated terms

CRN 03802001 · Information & communication · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2026

47daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 138 days inside their stated 185-day term.

Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
185 days
Paid outside agreed terms
2% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
16%
Reporting period
1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 30 Apr 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 138 days inside the 185-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

65 → 47 days — getting faster

The read · computed from their figures

Vodafone Group Services Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 47 days against stated terms of 185 days; 2% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 16% took 61 days or longer. Filed 30 Apr 2026.

The direction is faster: from 65 days in H2 2023 to 47 now — 18 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 89% of the 476 large companies reporting in information & communication.

That is 16 statutory periods on record (earliest H2 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

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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 Group Services Limited. Vodafone intercompany payment terms include many transactions with payment terms up to 120 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 – 39 days Split of payments made under qualifying contracts in the reporting period Percentage of invoices paid between day 1 and day 30 (inclusive) – 54% Percentage of invoices paid between day 31 and day 60 (inclusive) – 33% Percentage of invoices paid on or after day 61 – 13% The total value

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 Group services Ltd 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.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 2026472%16%30 Apr 2026
H2 2025474%24%30 Apr 2026
H1 2025484%19%25 Apr 2025
H2 2024553%33%6 Nov 2024
H1 2024624%35%25 Apr 2024
H2 2023656%41%30 Oct 2023
H1 2023605%45%28 Apr 2023
H2 2022665%48%26 Oct 2022
H1 20226511%44%27 Apr 2022
H2 2021614%40%25 Oct 2021
H1 2021606%42%27 Apr 2021
H2 2020546%37%28 Oct 2020
H1 2020527%35%27 Apr 2020
H2 2019546%41%29 Oct 2019
H1 2019545%40%30 Apr 2019
H2 2018667%50%25 Oct 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
7 Jul 1999
Registered office
VODAFONE HOUSE, NEWBURY, RG14 2FN
0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Quick answers · Vodafone Group Services Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 18 days faster over the window (65 → 47 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest filed report puts the average at day 47; across their last 6 reports it ranged 47–65 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
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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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