Business Credit

A net 30 vendor lets your business buy now and pay the invoice 30 days later, and some of them tell you they pass your payment history to business credit bureaus. This guide compares nine vendors using each company’s own pages, so you can see how to apply, what it costs to open the account, […]

How to set up Nav for a high-ticket store, and the free D-U-N-S step to do before you pay for anything. What each of the four tiers really includes, why suppliers rather than lenders are the reason to care, and what Nav’s pricing page does not tell you.

Most ecommerce sellers do not think about business credit until a supplier asks for a personal guarantee or a lender turns down a financing application over a thin file. By then, you are trying to build credit history under time pressure instead of ahead of it. This guide walks through exactly how to build business […]

Business credit monitoring used to be something only larger companies bothered with. For ecommerce sellers, it now matters much earlier, since supplier net-terms accounts, inventory financing, and even some ad platform credit lines increasingly check a business credit file before extending terms. This list covers the strongest platforms for tracking and building business credit as […]

Nav and Dun & Bradstreet both help ecommerce sellers track and build business credit, but they approach the job differently enough that picking between them actually matters. Nav pulls data from all four major bureaus into one dashboard and adds an active tradeline-reporting feature. D&B focuses exclusively on its own bureau, going deeper into the […]

Nav is the most popular all-in-one business credit monitoring platform for a reason: it pulls data from four bureaus into one dashboard instead of making you juggle separate logins. But it is not the only option, and depending on what you actually need, a single-bureau tool or a service built specifically around one function can […]

If you have looked at business credit monitoring tools for your ecommerce store, you have probably run into a wall of confusing tier names and vague feature lists. Nav is one of the few platforms in this space that publishes its pricing plainly, but the tiers still take some unpacking if you want to know […]