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How much revenue do you need for business funding?
There is no market-wide figure. Each funder's minimum falls out of its own smallest deal size and its own remittance sizing, and most never publish it.
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How much revenue do I need to qualify for business funding?
No universal minimum exists. Each funder derives one from the smallest deal it will write and the share of daily cash it is willing to take, so the same business clears one funder's floor and misses another's. Some funders publish a figure; most do not, and where a floor is published it belongs to that funder's own page. Consistency of deposits matters more than the level, and revenue is not margin — high revenue on a thin margin can produce a large offer the business cannot actually service.
Where a minimum comes from
Run the arithmetic backwards and the number stops being arbitrary.
A funder has a smallest deal it will write, below which underwriting and servicing costs eat the margin. It also has a limit on what share of your daily cash it will take, because a remittance that starves the business destroys the revenue it collects from.
Illustrative only — suppose a funder writes nothing under $10,000, wants repayment inside six months, and will not size a daily debit above a tenth of daily deposits. Six months is roughly 126 banking days. A $13,000 total over 126 days is about $103 a day. For that to be a tenth of daily deposits, deposits need to be around $1,030 a day, or roughly $21,600 a month. That is the floor, produced entirely by the product's mechanics.
Change the minimum deal size, the term, or the remittance ceiling and the floor moves. Which is why two funders offering the same product publish different numbers, and most publish nothing at all.
Which revenue figure they mean
The question "how much revenue" is usually answered with a deposits figure, and those are not the same thing.
What gets stripped before anything is averaged: transfers from your own other accounts, loan and advance proceeds, owner injections, refunds and returned items, and one-off receipts like an insurance settlement. What is left is true revenue, and on some files it is a fifth below the gross credits line. See what average monthly deposits means to an underwriter.
Some funders then take the average of three months, some the lowest of three, some a weighted figure favouring the most recent month.
Consistency beats level
$30,000 a month for twelve straight months is a stronger file than $90,000 once and $12,000 twice, even though the second business has higher annual revenue.
Three things get read alongside the level:
Revenue is not margin
A business at $400,000 a month on a two percent net margin generates about $8,000 of profit. A business at $90,000 on eighteen percent generates about $16,200. The first clears every revenue floor in the market and is the weaker credit.
The risk is specific: a remittance sized against revenue can exceed the entire monthly profit, so the advance is serviced out of working capital and the shortfall returns six weeks later. If that describes you, bring a one-page profit and loss and argue for a smaller, longer structure rather than the one your deposits imply. See revenue floors and why they are floors.
The two-account problem
The floor is applied to what the funder can see, and what it can see is the statements you gave it.
The reverse error is worse. Submit both, and a funder that reads transfers between them as deposits can count the same money twice, size an offer against a revenue figure that does not exist, and hand you a remittance the business cannot carry. A competent underwriter strips inter-account transfers; not every file is read by one.
Either way the fix is the same: submit every account revenue lands in, every page, and flag the transfers yourself in a covering note. Consolidating into a single operating account a few months before you apply is better still, and it makes every future application easier to read.
If you are under the floor
By product, in shape rather than in numbers
- Advances and revenue-based financing have the lowest floors, because revenue is the collateral.
- Short-term working capital loans care more about deposit consistency than deposit level.
- Lines of credit sit higher, because a revolving facility costs more to maintain.
- Term loans are constrained by coverage rather than volume — see debt service coverage ratio and how lenders calculate it.
- Invoice factoring cares about invoiced receivables from creditworthy customers, not deposits.
- SBA loans have no revenue floor as such; the constraints are eligibility and coverage.
The two questions to ask
Ask which revenue figure the funder uses and over what window. Then ask what remittance the offer implies as a share of that figure. The first tells you whether you clear the floor. The second tells you whether what is on the other side is survivable.
Where this applies
Related questions
How much revenue do I need to qualify for business funding?
No universal minimum exists. Each funder derives one from the smallest deal it will write and the share of daily cash it is willing to take, so the same business clears one funder's floor and misses another's. Some funders publish a figure; most do not, and where a floor is published it belongs to that funder's own page. Consistency of deposits matters more than the level, and revenue is not margin — high revenue on a thin margin can produce a large offer the business cannot actually service.
Which funding products does this apply to?
Merchant Cash Advance, Working Capital, Term Loan, Business Line of Credit, Invoice Financing, Revenue-Based Financing. Each has its own page listing the funders in this directory that offer it and what each one publishes about its terms.
Are the figures here quotes?
No. Every worked example is labelled illustrative and exists to show the arithmetic. What a particular lender charges is on that lender's page, where it publishes it at all.
Who writes this?
The Find Me Funders research desk. Some drafting is AI-assisted, and every page that is says so at the top, including whether a person has checked its claims yet.
How do I know a figure here is right?
Where a page carries the green notice, its claims were checked against the sources listed at the end and a reviewer is named. Where it carries the amber one, nobody has verified it yet and you should confirm anything you plan to act on.
Are the examples real deals?
No. Every worked example is labelled illustrative and exists to show the arithmetic. What any particular lender charges is on that lender's page, where it publishes it.
Why do you never say what a typical rate is?
Because we cannot source it. A market average assembled from lenders who do not publish prices is a guess with a decimal point on it. Where a lender publishes a figure, we show that figure and say where it came from.
Is this financial or legal advice?
No. It is general information about how these products work. Outcomes depend on your contract and your state, and a lawyer or accountant licensed where you are is the person to ask about your situation.
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