Gain Powerful Credit Risk Insights at No Cost

The Trade Contributor Program is a free, confidential program that helps credit professionals improve trade credit risk management by better understanding the risk exposure within their accounts receivable portfolio.

The value of trade data exchange programs is well known — share your A/R customer data, gain insights and manage risk. And smart credit teams contribute to several of the largest programs — like ours — to maximize their coverage. We make contributing easy. With no membership required and no cost to participate.

Turn your receivables data into actionable intelligence

Your A/R portfolio contains valuable information, but without the right analytics, hidden risks can go unnoticed. Our Trade Contributor Program securely analyzes your receivables and provides dashboards, reports and benchmarking tools that strengthen your trade credit risk management strategy by providing powerful insights and helping you:
  • Identify high-risk accounts before they become losses
  • Monitor payment behavior and collection trends
  • Prioritize collection efforts
  • Benchmark customer payment performance
  • Protect revenue and cash flow
  • Make faster, more informed credit decisions
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Secure, anonymous and easy to use

Your trade data remains confidential throughout the process, allowing organizations to improve trade credit risk management while protecting sensitive customer information.

  • Secure file uploads
  • Anonymous data processing
  • Automated file submissions available
  • Dedicated onboarding support
  • No customer-identifiable information shared in reports

Evaluate bankruptcy risk with the PAYCE® Score

The Trade Contributor Program includes access to the proprietary PAYCE® Score, which predicts bankruptcy risk for more than 330,000 North American private companies using trade payment data, U.S. federal tax liens and firmographics.

The PAYCE® Score helps organizations strengthen trade credit risk management by identifying financially distressed customers before losses occur. Benefits include:

  • Daily updated bankruptcy risk scores
  • Approximately 80% predictive accuracy
  • High-risk classifications that identify nearly 50% of reported bankruptcies
  • Clear segmentation of low-, medium- and high-risk receivables
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Powerful dashboards and reports

Our Trade Contributor Program provides the following easy-to-understand dashboards that help credit professionals monitor trade credit risk, identify payment trends, and make proactive collection decisions. Arrange a demo to any of our nine reports, including the following:

Receivables Risk Overview

The Receivables Risk Overview provides a clear, data-driven view of your receivables, helping you pinpoint where risk is concentrated across your portfolio.

  • Combines stratification, segmentation, and
    predictive analytics for a comprehensive risk assessment
  • Identifies bankruptcy risk among private
    companies using our proprietary PAYCE® Score
  • Leverages up to 18 months of historical
    data for deeper insight
  • Highlights high-risk accounts and aligns
    outstanding dollars with predictive risk categories
  • Delivers clear, actionable insight on
    where to focus your attention

Slow Payers and Hidden Slow Players

The Slow Payers and Hidden Slow Payers reports give you visibility into customer payment behavior, providing early warning signs before risk affects cash flow.

  • Identifies customers who are paying you slowly
    and compares their behavior against others for the current month
  • Flags “hidden” slow payers—customers who pay
    you on time but are delinquent with others
  • Enables comparison of payment performance and terms.
  • Shows your average Days Beyond Terms (DBT) index
  • Offers comparative payment data and provides
    visibility into total due and past-due balances

Customer Bankruptcy Filings

The Customer Bankruptcy Filings report alerts you in real time any of your customers file for bankruptcy, or if there are any historical filings associated with your customers. This is extremely helpful on private company bankruptcies which can be difficult to monitor.

Get started today by joining a trusted network

Become part of a confidential trade network representing more than $3 trillion in annual global trade experiences, helping organizations improve trade credit risk management through shared payment intelligence.
Discover hidden risks within your receivables portfolio and gain actionable credit intelligence—at no cost. 
Join the Trade Contributor Program or view the file submission guidelines to get started.

Frequently Asked Questions about Trade Credit Risk Management Programs

Trade credit risk management is the process of evaluating, monitoring, and reducing the financial risk associated with extending payment terms to customers. It combines financial analysis, payment behavior, bankruptcy prediction, and portfolio monitoring to help organizations reduce bad debt, improve cash flow, and make better credit decisions.

The CreditRiskMonitor® Trade Contributor Program supports trade customer risk management by providing anonymous payment benchmarking, bankruptcy risk scoring, receivables analytics, and portfolio reporting—all at no cost.

A Trade Contributor Program is a confidential data-sharing network in which companies anonymously contribute accounts receivable payment information. In return, participants receive valuable insights into customer payment trends, bankruptcy risk, portfolio performance, and industry benchmarking to monitor the counterparty financial health and strengthen trade credit risk management. These streamlined processes can improve collaboration in credit operations.

  • A leading provider with $3 trillion in shared global trade data
  • Clean data checked by algorithms and risk professionals
  • Proprietary PAYCE® Score forecasts private company bankruptcy risk over twelve months with 80% accuracy

Trade Contributor Programs provide visibility beyond your own payment history by combining anonymous trade payment experiences from thousands of suppliers. This broader perspective delivers a more comprehensive understanding of credit risk and helps identify deteriorating payment behavior, detect financial distress earlier, prioritize collection efforts, and improve credit decisions. And automated credit decisioning reduces manual intervention and saves time.

An effective Trade Contributor Program can help you by:

  • Minimizing bad debt ensures steady operational liquidity by managing unpaid invoices.
  • Establishing maximum credit amounts and credit lines based on risk profiles helps prevent overexposure to buyers and mitigate risks
  • Helping to establish clear credit policies strengthen customer relationships and encourage responsible payment behavior so that you get paid faster.

Yes. Reputable Trade Contributor Programs anonymize contributed payment information and use secure data transmission methods. Individual customer identities and company-specific trade information are not disclosed to other participants. CreditRiskMonitor safeguards contributor data using a secure platform and anonymous data processing.

Most programs accept standard accounts receivable aging or payment history files exported from your ERP, accounting, or receivables management system. Automated uploads are often available for ongoing reporting. The right process can be determined based on your specific business needs.

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