Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Prettylittlething.com Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 07352417 · Wholesale & retail trade · 14 statutory reports on record · period to 28 Feb 2025

61days

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 28 Feb 2025 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: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 20 Aug 2010
Registered office: 49-51 DALE STREET, MANCHESTER, M1 2HF

3 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Nov 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 45–90 days. Reported average: 61.

Stated terms45–90d

+16 days

Reported avg61d

At a glance

The key figures

45–90d

their stated terms

77%

invoices paid outside terms

+18d

slower over the window

±6d

variable pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Slower than 90% of the 819 large companies reporting in wholesale & retail trade.

The pattern

Getting slower

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 45d

H1 2022H1 2023H1 2023H1 2024H1 2024H1 2025

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 31% 31–60 days 26% 61+ days 43%

The read · computed from their figures

Prettylittlething.com Limited has filed 14 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 61 days against stated terms of 45–90 days.

The direction is slower: from 43 to 61 days over the window — about 18 days slower.

In the latest period 77% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 43% landed 61+ days out.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Standard terms are agreed with suppliers and vary from 45 days to 90 days.

Dispute resolution

Personnel in the accounts payable team are allocated a number of suppliers to manage and the account handler deals with disputes in the first instance. If the dispute cannot be easily resolved, the matter is passed to the team supervisors and, if necessary, escalated to the Head of Finance or the COO.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2025	61	77%	43%	31 Mar 2025
H1 2024	57	64%	44%	30 Sept 2024
H1 2024	51	56%	31%	31 Mar 2024
H1 2023	49	58%	26%	29 Sept 2023
H1 2023	43	61%	17%	31 Mar 2023
H1 2022	43	48%	17%	30 Sept 2022
H1 2022	37	52%	12%	31 Mar 2022
H1 2021	35	45%	13%	30 Sept 2021
H1 2021	32	41%	11%	29 Mar 2021
H1 2020	31	39%	9%	30 Sept 2020
H1 2020	28	31%	9%	1 Apr 2020
H1 2019	33	42%	9%	30 Sept 2019
H1 2019	31	48%	11%	29 Mar 2019
H1 2018	34	49%	10%	28 Sept 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 61-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 61-day vs a 45-day payment cycle.

≈ £24,000

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 61-day cycle — about £6,300 more than the same account would carry at 45-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 18 days slower over the window (43 → 61 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 61, moving within about ±6 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 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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