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Small business funding in Kansas: a disclosure law with no registration behind it
Kansas makes funders disclose the cost of commercial financing under $500,000, but does not make them register with anyone.
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Kansas is one of the minority of states that require a funder to show a business borrower the cost of a commercial financing deal in writing. It is also one that stopped short of requiring providers to register with anybody. That combination is worth understanding, because it determines what recourse you actually have.
What the Kansas Commercial Financing Disclosure Act requires
The Act came in as Senate Bill 345, effective 1 July 2024. The enrolled text is published by the Kansas Secretary of State in the 2024 session laws. In outline, as of 2026:
Check the current statutory text rather than a summary, this one included.
How to actually use the Kansas disclosure
The disclosure is arithmetic, not endorsement. Three habits make it useful:
- Compare total payments to the amount disbursed, not to the amount "provided". If a fee is netted out at funding, those two figures differ, and the difference is real cost.
- Read the payment schedule as a term. Once you know how many payments there are and how often, you have the length of the obligation. Only then can you convert a total cost into an annualised figure, and the conversion should be written out.
- Ask what is missing. The Act's list is a floor, not a ceiling. Broker compensation, default triggers, personal guarantees and UCC scope are contract terms, not disclosure line items.
The three habits, worked through
Total of payments: $69,300. Cost against the money that reached you: $14,300, or $0.26 for every dollar disbursed.
Term: 36 weeks, about 8.3 months. Solving for the rate that discounts 36 payments of $1,925 back to $55,000 gives roughly 1.31% a week — an annualised 68%.
Both figures came off the disclosure sheet. Neither is printed on it, and the second is the only one that lets you set this offer beside a term loan quoted as a rate. Write the term and the method next to the number when you compute it, because a percentage with no stated basis is how incomparable things end up compared.
Then ask what is missing. The sheet is silent on the personal guarantee, the reconciliation right, the default list, the scope of the UCC filing, and the broker's compensation. In a bad quarter every one of those matters more than the price did.
The state's own capital programmes
Kansas runs its federal State Small Business Credit Initiative allocation through the Kansas Department of Commerce, administered by a designated statewide nonprofit entrepreneurship network under the GrowKS brand. As of 2026 the approved set includes the GrowKS Loan Fund plus angel capital support, community equity ownership and multi-fund equity programmes. Current terms are at growks.com.
The loan fund is the component most relevant to an operating business; the rest are equity-side. As with every state programme of this type, check whether it is currently open and funded before building a plan around it.
Kansas's industry mix
The SBA Office of Advocacy counts 273,419 small businesses in Kansas, 99.1 percent of the state's businesses, employing 48.9 percent of its workers — above the national small business employment share. Small-business employment is led by health care and social assistance (about 99,000), accommodation and food services (about 71,000), manufacturing (about 57,000), construction (about 55,000) and retail trade (about 54,000).
The mix pushes toward asset-backed products:
Checking liens against your Kansas business
UCC financing statements are filed centrally with the Kansas Secretary of State, which maintains the statewide index. Search your exact registered name plus prior and trade names before applying anywhere.
Look for filings still open on repaid obligations — terminations are routinely skipped, and clearing them means asking the secured party in writing for a UCC-3. Look for blanket "all assets" filings, which will influence every future credit decision. And check the order of multiple filings, because priority runs by date and decides outcomes in a workout.
The federal layer
SBA 7(a) and 504 loans run through participating Kansas lenders and remain the cheapest structured debt most qualifying businesses can access. See sba.gov.
Before you sign
Kansas gives you a cost disclosure. It does not give you a contract review. Separately confirm:
- Whether a personal guarantee applies, and whether it is a payment or a performance guarantee.
- Whether reconciliation of a daily or weekly debit is a contractual right, with a written procedure.
- What triggers default, including events that are not missed payments.
- The scope of any UCC-1.
- The governing law and venue, and whether the agreement contains a jury waiver or class-action waiver.
The disclosure tells you the price. The agreement tells you what happens in a bad quarter.
This is general information, not legal advice.
Where this applies
Related questions
What does this guide cover?
Kansas makes funders disclose the cost of commercial financing under $500,000, but does not make them register with anyone.
Which funding products does this apply to?
Merchant Cash Advance, Working Capital, Term Loan, Business Line of Credit, SBA Loan, Equipment Financing, Invoice Financing. Each has its own page listing the funders in this directory that offer it and what each one publishes about its terms.
Does this apply in Kansas?
This piece is written about Kansas specifically. Rules on disclosure, broker registration and lender licensing are set at state level and change, so confirm the current position with the state agency named on the Kansas page before relying on it.
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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