Why Use Equipment Financing?

  • Benefits For Businesses Financing Equipment

    New Equipment is a requirement to grow your business, improve productivity and realize operational cost efficiencies.  Equipment Financing might be the best solution to meet your business needs.

     

    Managing cash flow is a challenge for businesses of all sizes especially when you need to add equipment. Financing can put that equipment to work for you without a major capital investment and with real cash-flow advantages.  Here are the key benefits for equipment financing:

     

  • Low Monthly Payments
    Equipment financing gives you use of equipment without having to wait to pull the full cost of the equipment together and often requires lower payment than other methods of financing. Best of all, you can often afford higher quality equipment that is more cost effective to operate.
  • Acquire Equipment Without Tying Up Capital – Lower On-Book Debt
    Where other types of financing require a hefty down payment, equipment financing can be 100% financing. Most agreements require an advance of only one or two month's payment plus a security deposit. Equipment financing puts the equipment to work for you immediately, at a minimal up-front cost.
  • Protect Your Lines of Credit
    Equipment finance payments have no impact on your credit lines with your bank. Your borrowing power is preserved for other business opportunities and to manage daily operations.
  • Maintain a Competitive Edge
    The latest and best equipment lets you do the job faster, more efficiently and cheaper than the competition. Equipment financing gives you the advantage of the latest available technology at a more affordable cost.
  • Eliminate Obsolescence
    "The newest innovation" doesn't stay new. Equipment financing gives you today's best technology and then lets you upgrade when the equipment has outlived its advantage. You can eliminate the hassle of selling equipment at a depreciated value.
  • Take Care of the "Hidden Costs"
    Equipment financing gives you more than just the equipment. It also can cover the cost of delivery and installation. Your financing includes everything it takes to actually put the equipment to work for you.
  • Realize Tax Advantages – Lower After-Tax Cost
    Purchases are made with after-tax dollars. Your financing payments are usually considered a pre-tax business expense and as such may reduce your taxes.
  • Simplify Accounting
    Equipment financing payments are little more than a line-item in your monthly cost of operations - a minimal bookkeeping effort that frees you from time-consuming depreciation schedules.
  • Guard Against Market Conditions with a Fixed Payment
    Remember iterest rates can skyrock in a single year. Unlike bacnk lines of credit, with variable rates, equipment finanace payments are fixed - no matter what happends to the market tomorrow.
  • Equipment Financing Adds Up to Good Business Sense
    A properly tailored equipment financing program gives you the benefit of having the equipment you need without all the risk and financial pressures.
Equipment Financing:
  • * Minimizes the demands on cash flow
  • * Eliminates investing in obsolescence
  • * Keeps your bank credit lines open

Equipment Financing Benefits For Manufacturers and Dealers
As a manufacturer or dealer you know that equipment financing is an effective point-of-sale option for your business with a number of benefits including:

 

  • Minimize The Days For Sales Outstanding
    Accelerate the sales cycle by making the payment method available to the buyer quickly and painlessly.
  • Improve Sales Efficiencies  
    End-of-lease disposition provides natural sales trigger points for selling insurance and service contract, cross-selling, and reselling next-generation equipment.
  • Maintain Control Of The Customer Account
    The most cost effective sale is to a current customer so leasing enables you to build an ongoing relationship with your customers and permission to dialog and stay in constant contact..
  • Up-Sell Equipment
    More affordable payments often means that a customer can upgrade to a higher quality more cost effective piece of equipment which is a big win-win for both you and the customer.

     

    Some manufacturers and dealers self finance sales by creating a captive finance company or partnering with a finance company to provide a “white label” financing solution.  But even if you do not use your own capital to finance equipment sales whether you use your own capital to finance sales all manufacturers and dealers should provide a equipment financing option to customers.  It’s easy to find an eager Equipment Financing company to partner with or you can choose to partner with LeaseQ which brings you the broadest selection of equipment financing companies and the ability to quickly match your customers to the best companies based on dollar amount, equipment type and credit score.

  • 100% Tax Deductible
    Most businesses can deduct 100% of the total equipment costs through the IRS Section 179.