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Welcome to The How of Business with Henry Lopez and David Begin, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. And now,

here are your hosts. Welcome to this episode of the How What Business. This is Henry Lopez.

And my guest today is Chris Doyle. Chris, welcome to the show. Glad to be here. Great, great to have you.

We're going to chat about the cash flow challenge that is faced by a lot of contractors

and other similar businesses and subcontractors. And when they have to buy materials for a job,

for example, you know, a contractor has to pay for the supplies up front, but may not collect

from the client or the general contract for 30, 60, 90, sometimes even more

before they get paid.

So you have that cash flow situation.

From a supplier's perspective, there's the challenge of balancing receivables, credit,

and of course the desire to sell more materials.

But it's all of those.

That's a big, that's what you of those. That's what you deal with.

That's what you dealt with in your business, right, Chris?

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

So Chris is going to explain how his company billed to B-I-L-D helps bridge that

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