PAIDLATE by YORXEN
← New check

Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Fern Trading Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 06447318 · Professional & technical services · 18 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Jun 2026

10days
their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period
Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

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

Share

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
6 Dec 2007
Registered office
6TH FLOOR, LONDON, EC1N 2HT
3 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Mar 2027

Open the full record at Companies House.

Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 30 days. Reported average: 10.

Stated terms30d
-20 days
Reported avg10d

At a glance

The key figures

30d
their stated terms
3%
invoices paid outside terms
+4d
slower over the window
±24d
variable pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

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

The pattern

Getting slower

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 30d
6
16
57
10
25
10
H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 97% 31–60 days 3% 61+ days 0%

The read · computed from their figures

Fern Trading Limited has filed 18 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2017). Their latest report puts the average at 10 days against stated terms of 30 days.

The direction is slower: from 6 to 10 days over the window — about 4 days slower.

In the latest period 3% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 0% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

The business payments terms are to comply with the suppliers standard terms, or 30 days if not specified on invoice. The most frequently used term is 30 days. During the period there were no changes to our payment terms. The business does not have different payment terms for small and medium sized companies.

Dispute resolution

In the event of a dispute, the contract manager will liaise with the supplier. All issues will be resolved via the dispute resolution process. The contract manager will aim to resolve any disputes as soon as practically possible.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 2026103%0%31 Jul 2026
H2 2025254%4%30 Jan 2026
H1 2025100%0%31 Jul 2025
H2 2024570%27%31 Jul 2025
H1 2024160%8%31 Jul 2024
H2 202360%0%29 Jan 2024
H1 202330%0%1 Aug 2023
H2 2022341100%100%27 Jan 2023
H1 20221117%0%29 Jul 2022
H2 202150%0%28 Jan 2022
H1 20212726%11%29 Jul 2021
H2 20201617%3%26 Jan 2021
H1 20202221%10%29 Jul 2020
H2 20194357%28%30 Jan 2020
H1 20193132%14%31 Jul 2019
H2 20188360%37%30 Jan 2019
H1 20182330%5%30 Jul 2018
H2 20172129%13%1 Aug 2018

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average has moved about 4 days slower over the window (6 → 10 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 10, moving within about ±24 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
Can I see what this means for my invoices?
Run the live check — it re-reads their record and their live Companies House file, on the amount you invoice.

Stay ahead

Watch Fern Trading Limited (free)

Their next payment report is due ≈ 26 Jan 2027. We watch their public record and email you when something changes — a new payment report, late filings, insolvency markers, new charges.

You’ll get a confirmation email first. Unsubscribe any time. How we handle your address.

More large companies in professional & technical services

Fera Science Limited · Fern Trading Limited · FCB Inferno Limited · First Rail Holdings Limited · FCB Health Hampshire Limited · Firstgroup Holdings Limited

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).

Report PL-06447318 · latest period to 30 Jun 2026

Verify the original Companies House file

Built by YORXEN LTD · registered in England & Wales · CRN 17303256 · privacy · terms.