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Make funding your business easy by borrowing and saving

Unlock funding opportunities for your business. You'll benefit from our global partnerships with financing experts, allowing you to access business loans, grants, and other funding to maintain cashflow and keep your business growing.

Cash flow management

Get confidence in your finances with automated payment reminders and credit risk data on your clients. On-demand short term business finance options are available when needed.

  • Gain a single view of all your debt chasing activity.
  • Reduce bad debts with integrated credit tools.
  • Improve your cash flow and get paid faster.
  • Save time by automating your debt chasing process.

Business funding

Match with relevant funding opportunities quickly and easily. Explore small and medium business funding options and enable your business to keep growing.

  • Find the right funding option for your business needs.
  • Ease the burden of financing with a simple multi-lender application.
  • Apply for non-for-profit grants, equity investment, traditional lending, and more.

Flexible financing

Finance costs towards Sage software subscription and implementation over a term of your choosing with a set monthly or quarterly payment amount.

  • Reduce impact to your cash flow.
  • Control your payment terms for better long-term planning.
  • Gain easy path-to-purchase regardless of budget.
  • Choose from multiple lenders to secure the right financing for you.

Satago

For small and medium businesses, a healthy cash flow is crucial. Satago offers debt-chasing tools that enable you to reduce debtor days and cut time spent chasing debts, so you get paid faster. You also receive real-time credit scores on your suppliers, so you can mitigate risk by understanding who you’re doing business with.

Swoop

Swoop is a funding and savings platform that can match you with loans, grants, and more to support your business. Use Swoop flexible financing to get started with Sage while reducing your upfront spend. Sage customers also receive a full credit health check at no-cost.

Allica Bank

Looking for a rewarding business bank focused on established businesses? With great rates, no monthly fees, and a dedicated relationship manager, it’s time you got more from your bank. Qualified Sage customers receive an exclusive interest rate when opening an account.

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Frequently asked questions about business funding

Swoop and Satago are Sage finance partners that specialise in funding and can provide the tools that better enable you to understand the health of your business, and that of your customers. Swoop and Satago can match you with funding and savings opportunites that will help you grow your business, as well as providing access to credit checkers and debt chasing tools. This helps you keep your accounts receivable funnels on track, and your finances in check.

With Swoop, you can integrate your Sage account to the Swoop funding platform. This allows you to be matched with relevant funding options such as loans, equity investment, and even grants based on the best fit for your growth goals. Satago also offers an integration with Sage to connect your invoice data to the Satago dashboard. Here, you can access short-term invoice financing when needed.

There is no cost for using Swoop or Satago. Both the Swoop and Satago platforms are free for customers to use. When moving forward with any of the chosen long-term or short-term financing options, please note that terms are dependent on the credit strength of the applicant, in-line with interest and prime lending rates.