No benchmark, no baseline
You can't tell if your DSO is good or bad until cash flow tells you. Without industry context, there's no way to know whether the problem is you or the market.
New Business Intelligence Be first to experience it
See the bigger picture. Make smarter AR decisions.
Business Intelligence shows your AR team how you really compare to peers, where there's cash you could be pulling in faster, and which credit decisions to trust, built on more than $9 trillion of real B2B payment experiences.
DSO benchmark · Wholesale & distribution
Live
9 daysbehind peers
$2.4Mreceivable faster
Matching the top quartile could unlock 24 days of faster cash collection.
The problem
AR teams make critical decisions without context.
Without market data behind them, every credit call, every collection conversation, and every monthly review runs on half the picture. Three blind spots quietly cost you cash.
Hidden gaps in credit strategy
How a business pays its other suppliers tells you a lot about how it will pay you. That signal stays invisible until a bad debt hits. By then the relationship is already broken.
Reactive, manual reporting
Monthly spreadsheets and gut-feel decisions leave your team chasing problems that have already happened, instead of catching them while there's still time to act.
Reactive vs. proactive
| The old way | With Business Intelligence | |
|---|---|---|
| DSO visibility | No idea how your DSO compares to peers | Live DSO benchmarks by industry and region |
| Credit decisions | Credit limits set on instinct, not market data | Credit decisions backed by 45.8M buyer payment profiles |
| Market trends | Market trends invisible until they hit your cash flow | B2B payment trends surfaced before they affect you |
| Credit risk | Bad debt discovered after the relationship breaks down | Supplier payment behaviour reveals hidden credit risk |
| Cash flow | Cash acceleration opportunities missed entirely | Cash opportunities identified and prioritised automatically |
Sidetrade Data Lake · The foundation
The only B2B payment dataset of its kind, now working for you.
Business Intelligence is powered by the Sidetrade Data Lake: a continuously updated record of real B2B payment behaviour across 45.8 million buyers, fed in real time at roughly five new payment experiences every second. No mid-market competitor comes close.
- Always fresh: Five new payment experiences land every second, so your benchmarks reflect the market as it stands today, not a snapshot from last quarter.
- Fully anonymised: Every record is aggregated and privacy-safe. You get the market view, never the individual file.
- Impossible to replicate: Built up over decades of enterprise order-to-cash data, deepening every day. A competitor starting today would still be years behind.
How the data lake powers your insights
- 1 B2B payment experiences ingested45.8M buyers · 1B+ invoices · 5 per second, in real time
- 2 Industry and sector segmentationBenchmarks built by industry, region, company size, and payment terms
- 3 Your AR performance mappedDSO, payment trends, and credit gaps surfaced against real peers
- 4 Actionable intelligence deliveredInsights your team can act on, not just charts to look at
The data lake, by the numbers
The data asset no competitor can match.
Built up over decades of enterprise order-to-cash execution, the fully anonymised Sidetrade Data Lake continues to grow every second, providing Business Intelligence that puts your receivables performance into context so you can benchmark against peers, understand payment trends and identify opportunities to improve.
- $8T+ B2B payment transactions
- 45.8M buyers in Sidetrade's network
- 1B+ invoices processed in the last 5 years
- Live 5/sec payment experiences added
- You 47 days
- Industry average 38 days
- Top 25% 23 days
You're 9 days behind your industry. Matching the top quartile would bring cash in 24 days sooner.
Business Intelligence turns that data into a clear view of where you stand.
All data anonymised and aggregated. Source: Sidetrade Data Lake. Benchmark shown is illustrative.
What it does
Four capabilities. One unfair advantage.
Business Intelligence turns more than $9 trillion of real payment data into specific insights your AR team can act on this week.
You're 24 days behind the top quartile, worth $2.4M in faster cash.
Stop guessing where you stand.
Start knowing.
Register your interest now to be among the first AR teams to benchmark performance against real peers, using live data from the Sidetrade Data Lake.
FAQs
Common questions about Business Intelligence
Still have questions?
Our team is here to show you how Business Intelligence can benchmark your AR against real peers.
What is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence helps your accounts receivable team compare performance with industry peers, understand customer payment behaviour and identify opportunities to collect cash sooner. Powered by insights from the Sidetrade Data Lake, it provides wider market context to support collection and credit decisions.
How is Business Intelligence different from Credit Insights?
Both help your team make informed accounts receivable decisions, with different areas of focus. Business Intelligence uses insights from the Sidetrade Data Lake to help you benchmark performance against peers, understand payment trends and identify opportunities to collect cash sooner. Credit Insights combines your debtor data with external credit bureau information to help you assess and monitor individual customers' credit risk, review credit terms and prioritise follow-up. The two provide complementary views of your receivables performance and customer risk.
What data powers Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence is powered by the Sidetrade Data Lake: a continuously updated record of real B2B payment behaviour spanning 45.8 million buyers and more than 1 billion invoices.
Is my data shared with other businesses?
No. Every record is aggregated and privacy-safe. You get the market view, never the individual file.
How current are the benchmarks?
Five new payment experiences land every second, so your benchmarks reflect the market as it stands today, not a snapshot from last quarter.