Since 1969, United Leasing & Finance has been structuring vendor lease programs across a wide array of industries.
Our size and expertise means we are fully capable of servicing not only your needs, but also your customers’ needs. Coupled with our quality and service philosophy, United Leasing & Finance provides customized services and financing solutions in a timely and personal manner. Our goal is to help you close the deal!
Currently more than 80% of all B2B equipment sales are financed. Offering payment options automatically keeps you in front of this group.
Financing allows you to get paid in full right away. You make the sale; we take the risk.
Cash flow and cash reserves are more important to businesses than ever. Not offering financing means you are susceptible to losing these customers to finance-offering competitors.
No more having customers hold up sales while waiting for the bank or other funding. Offering instant financing also takes “let’s see if we have the budget” out of the equation.
Offering a payment option is a good benefit to tout, but it can go further. Smart companies are tailoring custom, creative financing and lease programs to their clientele.
By offering financing, you can offer low monthly payments making it easier to increase your margins. Financing helps the customer avoid making a large cash outlay and frees them up to make more purchases.
Be a one-stop shop. Many equipment sales are lost if you can’t offer financing and leave it up to an outside party, like the customer’s bank. This loss of control during the sales process is an open door for the customer to entertain other proposals from competitors. Control the sales process from start to finish.
Waiting until the end of the sales process to bring up financing leads to wasting time on customers who don’t qualify for financing or have cash to pay for it. Another downside of waiting is that the equipment sales rep has stripped out any gross margin upside that could have been used to pay for a finance promotion, like a 90-day skip or interest rate reduction, that would have put them over the top to win the deal.
Including a finance quote on every deal, at the very least, lets your customer know financing is available.
Don’t be afraid to ballpark a monthly payment verbally during the initial part of the sale. This allows you to judge the customer’s reaction to pricing.
When more than 50% of the equipment is financed, the best sales reps will quote a monthly payment without ever discussing the equipment cost. This allows them to maintain higher gross margins by using the flexibility of leasing to maintain pricing margins.
Getting a credit application completed increases the customer’s level of commitment to the sales process.