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How long does Vodafone Sales & Services Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 06844137 · Information & communication · 15 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Sept 2025

42days
their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period
Slower than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

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

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On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
11 Mar 2009
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: 7–185 days. Reported average: 42.

Stated terms7–185d
+35 days
Reported avg42d

At a glance

The key figures

7–185d
their stated terms
7%
invoices paid outside terms
-8d
faster over the window
±5d
steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower
Slower than 84% of the 475 large companies reporting in information & communication.

The pattern

Getting faster

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 7d
50
46
48
45
39
42
H1 2023H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 34% 31–60 days 64% 61+ days 2%

The read · computed from their figures

Vodafone Sales & Services Limited has filed 15 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 42 days against stated terms of 7–185 days.

The direction is faster: from 50 to 42 days over the window — about 8 days faster.

In the latest period 7% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 2% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

Offers e-invoicing Offers supply-chain finance 7% of invoices in dispute

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 Sales & 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 – 40 Split of payments made under qualifying contracts in the reporting period A) Percentage of invoices paid between day 1 and day 30 (inclusive) – 52% B) Percentage of invoices paid between day 31 and day 60 (inclusive) – 29% C) Percentage of invoices paid on or after day 61 – 19% Payments d

Dispute resolution

Any disputes on individual invoices should be raised with Vodafone Sales & Services Limited Accounts Payable who will work with the supplier to resolve the issue: For query in relation to Invoices/queries, the contact point is Supplier Digital Portal. For any contractual disputes suppliers should contact Supply Chain Management team: For query in relation to Supply Chain Management, the contact point is [email protected].

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 2025427%2%27 Oct 2025
H1 2025391%5%30 Apr 2025
H2 2024454%16%6 Nov 2024
H1 2024482%16%25 Apr 2024
H2 2023467%13%30 Oct 2023
H1 2023503%9%28 Apr 2023
H2 2022434%12%26 Oct 2022
H1 2022544%18%27 Apr 2022
H2 2021483%16%25 Oct 2021
H1 2021507%27%27 Apr 2021
H2 2020454%23%28 Oct 2020
H1 2020505%27%27 Apr 2020
H2 20194910%30%29 Oct 2019
H1 20195915%31%29 Apr 2019
H2 2018507%34%25 Oct 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 42-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 42-day vs a 7-day payment cycle.

≈ £16,500
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 42-day cycle — about £13,800 more than the same account would carry at 7-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 8 days faster over the window (50 → 42 days).
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 42, moving within about ±5 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.
Can I see what this means for my invoices?
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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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