Business Funding FAQ

This FAQ is divided into 4 sections:

General questions

Capital Advance

Additional questions for Amazon and Walmart sellers

Line of Credit

General questions

Business Funding gives you access to different types of funding solutions to grow your business.

Business Funding currently offers two types of solutions:

  • Line of Credit – Flexible, on-demand funding from third parties that you can borrow and pay back on an on-going basis.
  • Capital Advance – Get funds up front and repay automatically from your future sales.

It depends on eligibility. Some businesses are eligible for both Line of Credit and Capital Advance, and some are eligible for Capital Advance only.

No, you must choose and complete one type of funding at a time. For example, if you accept a Line of Credit, you must pay it back completely before you can accept a Capital Advance.

Capital Advance

Payoneer Capital Advance is a working capital solution that provides you with an advance on upcoming marketplace earnings.

  • Amazon and Walmart sellers: see more details here

Capital Advance offers are offers to receive an advance on your future marketplace payments. Offers appear in your Payoneer account. Simply choose the offers you want to accept.

In addition, Payoneer will send messages to your Payoneer account and email address when a new Capital Advance offer is available.

No. You’ll receive offers automatically for your eligible stores (eligibility is determined by your stores’ payment history and other factors). All these offers are pre-approved without any need for personal guarantees or collateral provided in advance, and you will receive your funds in minutes once you accept an offer.

Note for Amazon sellers:
We’ll also show you offers with status Action required in the Capital Advance offers table. To accept those offers, simply connect those stores to Payoneer in Store Manager so that we can verify eligibility. It takes just a few minutes, and once you see the Approved status, you can go ahead and accept the offer.

Follow these steps to accept an approved Capital Advance offer and receive the funds to your Payoneer account:

  1. Sign in to Payoneer and select Capital Advance, or click VIEW OFFER in the email you receive, to view your Capital Advance offers.
  2. Select the approved offer you’d like to accept. (If available, you can select multiple offers simultaneously.)
  3. Enter the Capital Advance amount you’d like to receive, up to the indicated maximum.
  4. Review the terms and accept the offer.
  5. We’ll send the funds to you in minutes and they’ll appear in your Payoneer account.

Amazon sellers, learn how to accept Capital Advance funds for stores whose offers are in Action required status.

After accepting an offer, you’ll see the funds in your Payoneer account generally within minutes.

From the moment we transfer the Capital Advance funds into your account, the funds are available to you to make payments with, to withdraw, etc.

The Capital Advance fee is a fixed fee, calculated as a percentage of the actual Capital Advance amount. Once the fee is set for a specific Capital Advance offer, it does not change for that Capital Advance. The fee is collected as part of the Capital Advance settlement.

  • Amazon and Walmart sellers: see more details here

No. Currently, Payoneer offers this option only for sellers on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Walmart.

If you received Capital Advance offers in the past, but are no longer getting them, it might be because your stores’ eligibility to receive Capital Advance offers changed. For more information, please contact us.

Additional questions for Amazon and Walmart sellers

Payoneer’s Capital Advance provides flexible working capital funding that you can tailor to your business needs. Choose from a range of amounts with varying time to settle. The greater the time to settle, the more funds you can get and the greater the opportunity to leverage your funding.

When you accept a Capital Advance offer, you receive an advance on upcoming marketplace earnings. Payoneer purchases a part of your future receivables equivalent to the Capital Advance amount plus fixed fee (the settlement amount).

The purchased receivables will be collected by Payoneer gradually from your future marketplace earnings until settlement is complete.

We purchase a portion of your future earnings, with no limitation to a specific marketplace or funding source, in return for immediate funding, and we collect the earnings we purchased as you get paid. Offers are associated with specific stores to make it easier for you to manage different funding sources.

Typically, we collect the purchased receivables from marketplace payments related to the store associated with the offer. In certain circumstances, we will collect from other funding sources as well. See more details here.

The Capital Advance offers you receive are based on the historical sales performance of the marketplace stores associated with your Payoneer account, as well as predicted future sales.

Amazon sellers can get Capital Advance offers in USD, GBP or EUR for stores located on either Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es or Amazon.it.

Eligibility for Amazon storesEmpty heading

Your store must meet certain minimum eligibility criteria to receive Capital Advance offers. These include your store being connected to and receiving payments to Payoneer, as well as various indicators of store health as measured by Amazon.

The table below describes the minimum criteria in more detail. Note that additional criteria related to your Payoneer account are also considered, including your address country.

CriteriaRequirements
Payments from store incomeBeing paid into Payoneer USD, GBP or EUR balance
Store connection to Payoneer via Amazon MWSStore must be connected in Payoneer Store Manager
Marketplace on which store is locatedStore must be located on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es or Amazon.it, and payments must be in USD, GBP or EUR
Store seniority on AmazonStore must be selling on Amazon for at least 6 months
Order Defect Rate*Must be less than 1%
Late Shipment Rate*Must be less than 4%
Pre-fulfillment Cancellation Rate*Must be less than 2.5%

*You can see these rates for your store in your Account Health page in Amazon Seller Central.

Eligibility for Walmart stores

Your store must meet certain minimum eligibility criteria to receive Capital Advance offers, including receiving payments to your Payoneer account. The table below describes the minimum criteria in more detail. Note that additional criteria related to your Payoneer account are also considered.

CriteriaRequirements
Payments from store incomeBeing paid into your Payoneer USD balance
Address of Payoneer account holderAddress country must be the United States (inc. Puerto Rico)

Each Capital Advance offer you receive is based on the earnings for a specific store. Once you are eligible to receive Capital Advance offers, you will receive them at regular intervals. Once you accept a Capital Advance offer naming a specific store, you’ll only get another offer for that store once settlement for the first offer is complete. Getting the first offer for a store, as well as subsequent offers, is subject to meeting our eligibility criteria and to the Capital Advance Terms and Conditions.

The fee we charge for a Capital Advance is a small, fixed percentage of the Capital Advance amount. The fee, along with the Capital Advance amount, are together called the settlement amount.
You can see the exact fee in the list of offers on the Capital Advance page in your Payoneer account.
We have no hidden fees! Payoneer does not charge any additional fees for receiving a Capital Advance above that stated fee.

Starting from the settlement start date specified in the offer, Payoneer collects a portion (for example, 35%) of each marketplace payment you receive from the store associated with the Capital Advance; the remaining amount of the payment is available in your Payoneer account to use as needed to run your business. Collection continues until settlement is complete, that is until the full settlement amount is collected.

Starting from the settlement start date specified in the offer, Payoneer collects a portion (for example, 35%) of each marketplace payment you receive from the store associated with the Capital Advance; the remaining amount of the payment is available in your Payoneer account to use as needed to run your business. Collection continues until settlement is complete, that is until the full settlement amount is collected.

Settlement starts from the settlement start date specified in the offer and collection is gradual, depending on your marketplace payments. The settlement period differs depending on the offer you select and can range from 1-6 months.

Click here for details on what happens if collection takes less or more time than estimated.

Sure.

Let’s say you receive a Capital Advance of 50,000 USD on June 8, with a fee of 3% (1,500 USD). Together with the fee, the settlement amount is 51,500 USD.
The settlement start date in the offer is June 15 – this is the date from which we’ll start collection.
The estimated settlement period, as referred to in the Capital Advance Transaction Summary email you receive is 2-5 months. By the end of this period, we estimate collection will be finished.
The collection percentage in the offer is 35%. This is the portion of each marketplace payment we’ll collect.
You receive a marketplace payment of 25,500 USD for your store on June 16 and we collect 35% of that payment (8,925 USD). The remaining 65% of your payment remains in your Payoneer account for your business to use as needed.
You receive additional marketplace payments for your store every 2 weeks and we collect 35% of each of those payments. After your marketplace payment on August 18, let’s say we’ve collected 46,500 USD of the 51,500 USD settlement amount. At your next marketplace payment on September 1, we’ll collect the remaining 5,000 USD that was left to settle (which in this case is less than 35%), and thus settlement will be complete.

In the Capital Advance transaction summary email you receive, we provide an estimated settlement period. This range is approximate, and settlement can typically be completed earlier or later, depending on your actual marketplace payments.

If settlement is complete much earlier than estimated (for example, due to much higher than estimated marketplace payments) you may be eligible for a partial rebate of the fixed fee. If you are eligible for such a rebate, we’ll let you know.

If settlement is not complete before or within the estimated settlement period, Payoneer will begin collecting the remaining settlement amount from up to 100% of any payments received to your Payoneer account (not just from payments from the store associated with the Capital Advance offer), until settlement is complete. Before we start collecting up to 100% of payments, we’ll let you know.

You’ll receive an email when we deposit the Capital Advance in your Payoneer account and each time we collect a portion of a marketplace payment, including the final collection when the Capital Advance is fully settled.

In addition, you can view all activity related to your Capital Advance in the Transactions page in your Payoneer account.

No. The amount you can accept is flexible. The allowed range is displayed in the offer details. The amount you accept impacts the collection percentage but will not change the estimated settlement date.

Note that if you choose to accept an amount less than the maximum, you’ll only receive another offer for that store once settlement is complete.

Offers with status Action required require you to either:

To see which action is required, click Get details in the offer and follow the simple steps shown.

When you’re done in Store Manager, return to the Capital Advance page to see your offer’s updated status. Once your offer is in Approved status, you can go ahead and accept the offer. If you see Store ineligible, it means that the store is not currently eligible to receive Capital Advance offers. If the store becomes eligible in the future, you’ll receive a new offer.

On the Capital Advance page, we show you all your Capital Advance offers.

Walmart sellers – you will always see the Approved status under each offer

Amazon sellers – you may see any of the following statuses:

StatusDescription
ApprovedDisplayed if the store is eligible to receive Capital Advance offers. You can accept the offer immediately and receive your funds within minutes.
Action requiredDisplayed if:your store is not yet connected to Payoneer in Store Manager. You need to connect the store so we can verify eligibility.your store is connected but missing account statement details in Store Manager. Simply provide the details and the offer will immediately be approved.Click Get details in the offer to see the action that is required for the store.
Pending approvalDisplayed if you’ve completed the required action and we are now verifying the store’s eligibility. This typically takes just a few minutes and when done you’ll see your offer in Approved status.
Store ineligibleDisplayed if we’ve determined that the store is not currently eligible to receive this Capital Advance offer. If the store becomes eligible in the future, you’ll receive a new offer.

If this happens check the following:

  • Make sure you completed account statement details for the store in Store Manager.
  • Check the status of your Payoneer developer access in the Amazon Seller Central account for your store:
    1. Sign in to Amazon Seller Central and in the User Permissions settings locate the Authorization History table.
    2. Locate the entry with the Payoneer developer ID, originally used to connect your store. The Payoneer developer IDs (account numbers) can be found here.
    3. Check developer access:
      • If developer access is expired, click Restore access to renew developer access.
      • If developer access has been revoked, click Authorize and follow the steps to obtain your Amazon seller ID and a new MWS Auth Token (this blog shows the steps to authorize a developer in detail). Then contact us with the new MWS Auth Token.

Each Capital Advance offer is associated with a specific bank account used for Walmart payments. If you want to change the bank account you use for Walmart payments after receiving a Capital Advance offer, contact us to add your new bank account and create a new offer associated with that account.

From the moment you connect your store it typically takes a few minutes for us to verify the store’s eligibility, so that you can accept the store’s Capital Advance offer. Try waiting a few more minutes and refreshing the page. If the store continues to remain in Pending approval status even after an hour, contact us.

With flexible Capital Advance funding, each offer lets you choose from a range of amounts and varying time to settle. The greater the time to settle, the more funds you can get and the greater the opportunity to leverage your funding. Choose the terms that best suit your business needs. For example:

  • If you need funds for more time to meet a long-term contractual obligation, choose the longest time to settle (the settlement period ranges from 1-6 months).
  • If you need funds to purchase more inventory during a holiday season, choose the largest amount available (amounts offered are based on your store’s earnings).
  • If you just need a small, quick infusion of funds to pay a supplier, choose a shorter time to settle and a smaller amount.

Note that you might not be eligible for all offer levels immediately. Each time you accept an offer and settle your Capital Advance, you can become eligible to reach another level of flexibility.

Keep in mind that the fixed fee percentage may vary depending on the settlement period and amount you choose.

You might not be eligible for all offer levels immediately. Each time you accept an offer and settle your Capital Advance, you can become eligible to reach another level of flexibility.

Collection will take place via ACH bank debit directly from your bank account, shortly after each Walmart payment you receive (typically within 1 day). We collect 35% of each Walmart payment you receive until the Capital Advance is settled.

Be sure to keep enough funds in your bank account after each Walmart payment to cover the collection.

To withdraw funds from your Payoneer balance directly to your personal or company bank account, sign in to Payoneer and go to Withdraw to bank. If you haven’t yet added a bank account for withdrawal, you’ll be prompted to do so.

To learn more about withdrawing to bank accounts, visit the Withdraw to Bank FAQ.

Line of Credit

Eligibility is determined by the lenders. Only eligible businesses will see offers for Line of Credit.

Contact related Lender directly.

In accordance with our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy, Payoneer may share your information with Dowsure and the Lender for administrative and account servicing purposes. This may include corporate, operational, business, financial and other data related to your Payoneer account.

In certain cases, your application for funding may be facilitated through an independent third party that provides services to the Lender. Please note that such third parties are not the Lender and operate independently. Payoneer does not control and is not liable for their actions, and the third party’s policies will apply to your conduct with the third party.

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