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Diversify your activities and change your marketing to keep your business active during off-peak times.

Seasonal businesses should use flexible working options and incentives to find and keep high-quality staff.

Arrange repayment terms on overdrafts, loans, mortgages, leasing and factoring to suit seasonal highs and lows.

Using forecasts and improving your stock and credit control, and purchasing terms to help prevent cashflow problems.

How seasonal businesses can plan their cashflow, staff and stock levels and other activities.

Benefits of supplier finance or reverse factoring to buyer and supplier.

Find a list of providers to choose from but examine them carefully and get personal recommendations.

Avoid currency fluctuation and invoice problems when exporting, minimise bad debt risk with credit protection.

Recording money that comes in and goes out of your business, known as your cashflow.

Credit management fees and interest.

Invoice discounters offer an advance on the total amount owed to you by customers.

In certain circumstances, a factoring arrangement could involve the factor taking on the risk of bad debts.

Criteria that make your business eligible for factoring.

The legal requirements for a business record-keeping system.

Factoring boosts cashflow but there are costs and it brings a third party into the relationship between you and your customer.

Factors advance money to cover invoices and you repay an agreed percentage and fee.

How to improve cashflow by selling your invoices to a third party.

What you need to record and for how long, with step-by-step guidance on setting up your own system.

Financial schemes and support available to start or grow your social enterprise.

Council and local organisation support and opportunities to grow your business in the Mid and East Antrim area

Council and local organisation support and opportunities to grow your business in the Ards and North Down area.

An overview of the different groups and organisations that need to know about your new business entity.

How to re-register your company with Companies House to change its legal status.