Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Optos Public Limited Company pays suppliers in 47 days on average — 2 days past its stated terms

CRN SC139953 · Manufacturing · 16 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2026

47daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 2 days past the 45-day term they state.

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

Their stated terms: 30–45 days
Paid outside agreed terms: 2% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days: 22%
Reporting period: 1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
Source: their gov.uk filing, filed 12 May 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 2 days past their stated terms

PAIDLATE · terms vs the clockdays to pay · 0–55

avg 47d

0 days55 days

reported avg 47 days their filed terms 30–45 days UK median 31 days · n = 6,104 recent filers

Where their invoices landed · share of all invoices

within 30 days 37% 31–60 days 41% 61+ days 22%

Source: their statutory Payment Practices Report #111841, period 1 Oct 2025 – 31 Mar 2026, filed 12 May 2026 · gov.uk payment-practices service

Optos Public Limited Company pays 2 days past its own stated terms. 2% of invoices still went outside agreed terms; 22% reached 61 days or more. Self-reported in their statutory H1 2026 filing.

The pattern · last 6 of 16 reports

37 → 47 days — slowing down

PAIDLATE · the patternavg days per report

Last 6 of 16 filed reports · linear day scale · every period is in the table below · Source: gov.uk payment-practices service

10 days slower across the window. From 37 days in H2 2023 to 47 in the H1 2026 filing; the dashed line marks the 30-day term they state.

The read · computed from their figures

Optos Public Limited Company's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 47 days against stated terms of 30–45 days; 2% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 22% took 61 days or longer. Filed 12 May 2026.

The direction is slower: from 37 days in H2 2023 to 47 now — 10 days slower across their last 6 reports.

On the latest reported averages: Slower than 53% of the 977 large companies reporting in manufacturing.

That is 16 statutory periods on record (earliest H1 2018) — a historical record, not a promise for a new invoice.

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

Our standard payment terms are 45 days

Dispute resolution

Dispute resolution process – Initially via accounts payable team and then through escalation to appropriate team. To resolve a dispute the supplier is required to provide any missing information or a corrected invoice. Optos follow a strict no purchase order no pay policy. The purchase order is communicated by Optos's procurement team at the time of placing the order.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	47	2%	22%	12 May 2026
H2 2025	38	2%	12%	1 Nov 2025
H1 2025	42	1%	16%	30 Apr 2025
H2 2024	42	0%	14%	31 Oct 2024
H1 2024	43	0%	15%	24 Apr 2024
H2 2023	37	1%	8%	30 Nov 2023
H1 2023	49	0%	27%	6 May 2023
H2 2022	37	0%	11%	26 Oct 2022
H1 2022	38	0%	13%	28 Apr 2022
H2 2021	40	0%	12%	30 Oct 2021
H1 2021	49	0%	22%	28 Apr 2021
H2 2020	47	0%	22%	28 Oct 2020
H1 2020	39	0%	11%	1 May 2020
H2 2019	37	0%	9%	23 Oct 2019
H1 2019	37	0%	8%	30 Apr 2019
H1 2018	35	0%	4%	30 Oct 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Public Limited Company
Incorporated: 26 Aug 1992
Registered office: QUEENSFERRY HOUSE, DUNFERMLINE, KY11 8GR

0 outstanding charges on the register Accounts due 30 Sept 2027

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Illustrative · working-capital arithmetic

What a 47-day cycle ties up

A worked example, not a finding. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 47-day vs a 30-day payment cycle.

≈ £18,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 47-day cycle — about £6,700 more than the same account would carry at 30-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 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 · Optos Public Limited Company

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average has moved about 10 days slower over the window (37 → 47 days).

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest filed report puts the average at day 47; across their last 6 reports it ranged 37–47 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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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 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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