Software Payment Trends: 2024 vs 2025
Software Payment Practices Dip Slightly: Average Score Drops 1.3 Points From 77.2 to 75.9
The Comparison
- 2024: A survey of 153 software companies yielded an average payment practices score of 77.2 out of 100.
- 2025: This year, a smaller sample of 132 companies showed a slightly lower average score of 75.9 out of 100.
What This Means
The observed decline of 1.3 points suggests a marginal deterioration in software companies' payment conduct over the past year, although the sample sizes vary between years. While not drastic, this dip warrants attention to identify underlying causes and prevent further erosion of payment performance, and you can quickly work out the costs of these delays with this late payment calculator.
Software payment practices: 2024 - 77.2/100 (153 companies) vs 2025 - 75.9/100 (132 companies).
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