Forward Financing
Unlocking the capital that fuels small businesses
What Forward Financing puts on the record
Every row is the lender's own published figure or a blank. Blanks are not estimates and not zeros — they are what happens when a lender publishes nothing.
- Amounts
- $5K – $500K
- Speed to fund
- Same day
- Minimum credit score
- 500
- Minimum time in business
- 1 yr
- Minimum monthly revenue
- $10K/mo
- Direct funder or broker
- Direct funder
- Products offered
- Merchant Cash Advance, Working Capital, Revenue-Based Financing
Product by product
Pricing basis sits in its own column because a factor rate and an APR measure different things and must never be read as one number.
| Product | Amounts | Pricing basis | Published rate | Term | Speed | On the record |
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| Term Loan | $5K – $500K | Not disclosed | Not publicly disclosed | 3–18 mo | as quick as same-day |
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| Revenue-Based Financing | $5K – $500K | Not disclosed | Not publicly disclosed | 3–18 mo | as quick as same-day |
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Worth knowing before you call
What our researcher found reading Forward Financing’s own site — not the lender’s words
Accepts credit scores as low as 500, among the lowest published thresholds in this directory.
Third-party ratings
Customer ratings collected from public profiles. They measure customer sentiment, not our assessment — the two are kept apart deliberately.
Fewer than 30 reviews — too small a sample to read much into.
Rating shown is the BBB customer-review star average (2.33/5 from 15 reviews). Separately, BBB letter grade is A+ and the business is BBB Accredited since 12/3/2013. Website confirmed as https://www.forwardfinancing.com on the main profile page (https://www.bbb.org/us/ma/boston/profile/financial-services/forward-financing-llc-0021-133112). Note the BBB star average and the Trustpilot score diverge sharply.
Open the profileClaimed profile, website field shows forwardfinancing.com. Listed as Non-Bank Financial Service, Boston MA.
Open the profileIn its own words
Forward Financing is a Boston-based direct funder providing revenue-based financing and small business capital, with an affiliate office in Santiago, Dominican Republic. It funds amounts from $5,000 to $500,000 and states approvals before 3:00 PM ET can be wired the same day.
Sources and checks
Every figure on this page traces to a document someone read, on a date. Where a check is past its review date it says so rather than passing as current.
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Forward Financing publishes no pricing for its revenue based financing product
pricing_type"$5,000 - $500,000 in funding"; "Personalized factor rate based on company profile"
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Forward Financing publishes no pricing for its term loan product
pricing_type"Currently, our loan product is only available in the following states: Alabama, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming."
Questions about Forward Financing
Is Forward Financing a direct funder or a broker?
Forward Financing describes itself as a direct funder.
What does Forward Financing cost?
Forward Financing publishes no price. Not a range, not a starting rate — nothing we could find and cite. You will not know what it costs until you have an offer in front of you, which is worth knowing before you spend time applying.
How much can you borrow from Forward Financing?
Its published range is $5K – $500K.
What does Forward Financing require to qualify?
It publishes: a minimum credit score of 500; 12 months in business; minimum monthly revenue of $10,000.
How fast does Forward Financing fund?
It advertises Same day. That is the funder's own claim about its fastest case, not a commitment, and it starts when your file is complete rather than when you first make contact.
What products does Forward Financing offer?
On record here: Term Loan, Revenue-Based Financing.
How transparent is Forward Financing?
It publishes 9 of 9 standard facts about itself, which is 100% — publishes most of its terms. The directory median is a useful comparison and is shown on this page.
Where did these figures come from?
Each one traces to a document someone read, on a date, listed at the bottom of this page. Where a figure is absent it is absent here too. Where this page says a figure is not disclosed, it means the lender publishes nothing we could find and cite. It is not an estimate, a category average or a zero. Filling that gap with a guess is how a business ends up applying somewhere it was never going to qualify.
Is Find Me Funders affiliated with Forward Financing?
No. Find Me Funders is a directory and does not lend, make credit decisions or set terms. Everything here describes what other companies publish about themselves. Find Me Funders is free to use. We earn a fee from some funders when a business we refer goes on to receive funding, and a funder can pay for a placement, which is always labelled. Neither changes a disclosure score, a ranking position or what a page says — scores are computed from published fields, not from commercial relationships.