Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Ocado Central Services Limited pays suppliers in 25 days on average — inside its 60-day stated terms

CRN 09047023 · Professional & technical services · 15 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Nov 2025

25daysavg time to pay · H2 2025

Their H2 2025 filing puts the average 35 days inside their stated 60-day term.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers

Their stated terms: 60 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 12% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 3%
Reporting period: 2 Jun 2025 – 30 Nov 2025
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 10 Dec 2025

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

Terms vs reality · their H2 2025 filing

Paid 35 days inside the 60-day term they state

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–65

avg 25d

0 days65 days

reported avg 25 days their filed terms 0–60 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 84% 31–60 days 13% 61+ days 3%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #105404, period 2 Jun 2025 – 30 Nov 2025, filed 10 Dec 2025 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Ocado Central Services Limited pays 35 days inside its stated 60-day term. 12% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 3% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H2 2025 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 15 reports

41 → 25 days — getting faster

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 15 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

16 days faster across the window. From 41 days in H2 2022 to 25 in the H2 2025 filing; the dashed line marks the 60-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Ocado Central Services Limited's H2 2025 filing puts their average at 25 days against stated terms of 60 days; 12% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 3% took 61 days or longer. Filed 10 Dec 2025.

The direction is faster: from 41 days in H2 2022 to 25 now — 16 days faster across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 66% of the 510 large companies reporting in professional & technical services.

That is 15 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

What they tell their suppliers

Offers e-invoicing

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Standard payment terms are 30 days after the end of the month from the invoice date

Dispute resolution

If at any time any question, dispute or difference arises between OCADO CENTRAL SERVICES LIMITED and its suppliers, Finance will take the correct measures to ensure that these are investigated and resolved in the quickest time possible to avoid disruption in supply. All escalations are directed to the Accounts Payable Manager and after this to the Head of Finance Operations where these are investigated and resolved.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H2 2025	25	12%	3%	10 Dec 2025
H2 2024	25	15%	3%	13 Dec 2024
H1 2024	26	14%	5%	21 Jun 2024
H2 2023	27	11%	3%	20 Dec 2023
H1 2023	32	24%	10%	23 Jun 2023
H2 2022	41	16%	10%	16 Dec 2022
H1 2022	31	17%	8%	19 Jun 2022
H2 2021	27	9%	4%	23 Dec 2021
H1 2021	21	5%	3%	30 Jun 2021
H2 2020	29	10%	7%	23 Dec 2020
H1 2020	27	9%	5%	26 Jun 2020
H2 2019	24	22%	7%	19 Dec 2019
H1 2019	23	38%	3%	1 Jul 2019
H2 2018	28	50%	7%	3 Jan 2019
H1 2018	23	52%	6%	3 Jul 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 19 May 2014
Registered office: BUILDINGS ONE & TWO TRIDENT PLACE, HATFIELD, AL10 9UL

2 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Aug 2027

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Quick answers · Ocado Central Services Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 16 days faster over the window (41 → 25 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 25; across their last 6 reports it ranged 25–41 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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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.

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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.

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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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