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How long does Ocado Operating Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 09047186 · Real estate · 15 statutory reports on record · period to 30 Nov 2025

30days
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.

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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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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 0–60 days. Reported average: 30.

Stated terms0–60d
+30 days
Reported avg30d

At a glance

The key figures

0–60d
their stated terms
9%
invoices paid outside terms
±1d
steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower
Slower than 58% of the 74 large companies reporting in real estate.

The pattern

Holding steady

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

28
30
30
28
29
30
H2 2022H1 2023H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H2 2025

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 80% 31–60 days 16% 61+ days 4%

The read · computed from their figures

Ocado Operating Limited has filed 15 statutory payment periods (earliest H1 2018). Their latest report puts the average at 30 days against stated terms of 0–60 days.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±1 days period to period.

In the latest period 9% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 4% landed 61+ days out.

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 OPERATING 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.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H2 2025309%4%10 Dec 2025
H2 20242911%3%13 Dec 2024
H1 2024287%3%21 Jun 2024
H2 2023308%4%20 Dec 2023
H1 20233011%6%23 Jun 2023
H2 2022286%3%16 Dec 2022
H1 2022218%4%19 Jun 2022
H2 2021196%2%23 Dec 2021
H1 2021204%2%30 Jun 2021
H2 2020257%4%23 Dec 2020
H1 2020267%4%26 Jun 2020
H2 20192320%4%19 Dec 2019
H1 20193443%3%1 Jul 2019
H2 20182656%4%3 Jan 2019
H1 20182738%3%3 Jul 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 30-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 30-day vs a 0-day payment cycle.

≈ £12,000
of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 30-day cycle — about £11,800 more than the same account would carry at 0-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 is steady — within about ±1 days period to period, around 30 days.
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 30, moving within about ±1 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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