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Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

Optical Express Limited pays suppliers in 12 days on average — inside its 30-day stated terms

CRN SC161469 · Health & social care · 17 statutory reports on record · period to 27 Jun 2026

12daysavg time to pay · H1 2026

Their H1 2026 filing puts the average 18 days inside their stated 30-day term.

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,104 recent filers
Their stated terms
30 days
Paid outside agreed terms
0% of invoices
Paid after 61+ days
2%
Reporting period
28 Dec 2025 – 27 Jun 2026
Source
their gov.uk filing, filed 24 Jul 2026

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

Terms vs reality · their H1 2026 filing

Paid 18 days inside the 30-day term they state

The pattern · last 6 of 17 reports

Holding steady around 12 days

The read · computed from their figures

Optical Express Limited's H1 2026 filing puts their average at 12 days against stated terms of 30 days; 0% of invoices were paid outside agreed terms and 2% took 61 days or longer. Filed 24 Jul 2026.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±2 days period to period.

On the latest reported averages: Faster than 96% of the 138 large companies reporting in health & social care.

That is 17 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

The company's standard payment term are that invoiced amounts are paid within 30 days of the end of the month in which a correctly rendered invoice is received. Significant contracts are subject to specific credit terms negotiated and set out at the contracting stage and will therefore vary.

Dispute resolution

Any disputes unresolved with the accounts payable department are escalated to the Company Secretary and thereafter, if unresolved, to the Finance Director.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

PeriodAvg daysOutside terms61+ daysFiled
H1 2026120%2%24 Jul 2026
H2 202582%1%26 Jan 2026
H1 2025103%1%4 Aug 2025
H2 2024103%2%28 Jan 2025
H1 2024113%2%23 Jul 2024
H2 2023143%3%26 Jan 2024
H1 202384%2%21 Jul 2023
H2 2022122%1%26 Jan 2023
H1 2022123%2%28 Jul 2022
H2 2021135%3%27 Jan 2022
H1 202182%1%15 Jul 2021
H2 202084%2%21 Jan 2021
H1 202061%0%24 Jul 2020
H2 2019104%2%28 Jan 2020
H1 2019115%3%26 Jul 2019
H2 201894%2%30 Jan 2019
H1 201877%3%1 Aug 2018

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status
Active
Type
Private Limited Company
Incorporated
3 Nov 1995
Registered office
200 ST. VINCENT STREET, GLASGOW, G2 5SG
3 outstanding charges — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 30 Sept 2026 — overdue

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Quick answers · Optical Express Limited

Are they getting slower or faster?
Their reported average is steady — within about ±2 days period to period, around 12 days.
What's their typical pay point?
Their latest reports average around day 12, moving within about ±2 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 6,104 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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