A scaffolding contractor in Perth: a young crew paid on time

A young crew in Perth

The business puts up scaffolding on construction sites around Perth. It’s a young business, built around a main customer that gave it most of its work early on.

That customer pays once a month. Another customer came on soon after, and that one pays fortnightly, which suits a wages bill a lot better.

Signing up in November 2024, the owner explained to the FundTap team that the main customer paid once a month and wages couldn’t wait.

Wages before the month’s payment

Scaffolding is labour. The crew puts the scaffold up, and takes it down again when the site is finished with it. The scaffolders are paid through all of that, while the invoice waits for the customer’s next payment run.

For a young business with most of its work coming from the customer who pays slowest, that wait landed squarely on the wages. The work was there. The money for it was a month behind.

Funding the scaffold invoices

They signed up in November 2024 and funded three invoices that month, with wages the reason.

The business chooses the invoice and sees the fee before it commits. The customer’s payment run doesn’t change: they pay the business, once a month, as before.

The crew paid on payday

With the invoice funded, the scaffolders were paid on time, without the business waiting on its main customer’s payment run first.

For a young crew, that’s what stops a once-a-month payment run from setting the pace for everything else. They funded five more invoices through to March 2025, eight in all.

Not needed lately

Nothing has been funded since March 2025. The business hasn’t needed it, and an account that isn’t used doesn’t cost anything.

The timeline

1. November 2024 Signed up with the main customer paying once a month and wages to cover before then.
2. November 2024 Funded their first three invoices, the most they have funded in a month.
3. March 2025 Funded three invoices, the most recent in the records.

In numbers

• 1 main customer at the start, paying once a month
• 8 invoices funded between November 2024 and March 2025
• 3 invoices funded in November 2024, the month they signed up

Sound like your business?

Your main customer pays once a month and the scaffolders want paying before that. Fund the invoice that covers payday, and only when you need to.

Get paid now for work you’ve already done.

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