Maintenance and the longer projects
The owner runs a building maintenance business in Melbourne and organises trades for a group that owns several commercial buildings. The maintenance jobs are invoiced as they’re done.
Alongside that sit the owner’s longer projects, the kind that pay off over the medium term rather than at the end of the month.
The maintenance invoices are the income that keeps the week ticking over. The projects are where the owner’s time wants to go.
Chasing invoices or doing the work
A maintenance invoice can sit unpaid for a while, and following it up takes time the owner doesn’t have. An hour spent chasing a payment is an hour off the bigger project.
When they signed up, the owner told the FundTap team the maintenance work brought in the weekly income, while the bigger projects paid off later. The owner also mentioned having lately been chasing several unpaid invoices, with no time to spare for it, so they put one into FundTap instead.
Funding the slow maintenance invoice
They signed up in September 2024, and in January 2025 they funded their first two maintenance invoices.
When an invoice is sitting out there and the owner would rather not spend the week on it, that’s the one to fund. The fee shows before committing, and the building owners still pay the business directly, on their usual timing.
Back to the projects
A funded invoice means the maintenance money arrives without the owner stopping to chase it, and the week goes into the projects instead. The owner explained the point was to keep going on the other projects rather than stop and chase the money.
March 2025 was their busiest month, with five invoices funded, and they funded 12 across 2025.
Between projects
In 2026 they’ve funded five invoices to September, the latest two in April 2026. In the months with nothing funded, the account just waits, at no cost to the business.
The timeline
- September 2024 Signed up, with maintenance invoices to chase and longer projects to get on with.
- January 2025 Funded their first maintenance invoices, two that month.
- March 2025 The busiest month so far, with five invoices funded.
- April 2026 The most recent funding, two maintenance invoices.
In numbers
- 17 invoices funded since January 2025, each a maintenance job the owner chose not to chase
- 5 invoices funded in March 2025, the busiest month
- 12 invoices funded in 2025, their first full year
Invoices funded each month, as a table
| Month | Invoices funded |
|---|---|
| January 2025 | 2 |
| February 2025 | 1 |
| March 2025 | 5 |
| April 2025 | 1 |
| May 2025 | 0 |
| June 2025 | 2 |
| July 2025 | 0 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 0 |
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 0 |
| December 2025 | 1 |
| January 2026 | 0 |
| February 2026 | 0 |
| March 2026 | 3 |
| April 2026 | 2 |
| May 2026 | 0 |
| June 2026 | 0 |
| July 2026 | 0 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 0 |
Sound like your business?
The maintenance invoice is out, the bigger project needs your time, and chasing money isn’t the best use of your week. Fund the invoice and get back to the project.
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