Trade Credit Insurance
Sell business-to-business with credit terms? Trade credit insurance protects your cash flow from customers not paying.
The resource of choice for the country’s most forward-thinking insurance professionals.
The resource of choice for the country’s most forward-thinking insurance professionals.
Trade Credit Insurance
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What is Trade Credit Insurance?
Trade credit insurance provides a safety net for the income of businesses that offer credit payment terms to business clients. It covers your trade, so you have the certainty of getting paid if your client doesn’t pay.
By protecting your cash flow, trade credit insurance allows you to operate confidently and focus on growing and improving your business. It can also increase your borrowing capacity with banks by guaranteeing your receivables.
Trade credit insurance providers often partner with debt collection agencies, who will step in to help you recover debts, and credit check services may be offered as part of your policy benefits.
Total premiums for this type of cover start at around $10,000; so these policies are best suited to businesses with high values of credit or receivables, especially in the construction industries.
What can be covered
- Blanket cover for your entire list of debtors
- Selective cover for single or key high value accounts
What may not be
- Personal or consumer credit (ie. not business or commercial)
- "Pay when paid" contracts
- Consignment contracts (unless agreed to by insurer)
Get started with Trade Credit Insurance
By protecting your cash flow, trade credit insurance allows you to operate confidently and focus on growing and improving your business
Trade Credit Claim Example
Mark is a glazier with an ongoing contract with a large commercial builder to supply and install glass in new office buildings. The builder uses their unequal bargaining power to impose 60 day payment terms on Mark.
After completing a large $75k project, Mark submits his invoice through to the builder for payment and at day 60, he doesn’t receive payment as expected.
As Mark has trade credit insurance, he contacts his insurer to notify them of the default, and they appoint their collection agency to chase the builder. Mark has peace of mind knowing he will get most of his $75k invoice paid either by the builder, or his insurer if they can’t recover within 30 days.
Not only does he avoid a long legal battle at his own expense, he can be confident of receiving his payment in a reasonable time!
Why Choose CIB?
Consolidated Insurance Brokers can help by placing you with the best policy for your needs. We’ll find you the most competitive rate possible, and offer advice to ensure your insurance protects what matters.
Our Expertise
Committed to finding you the best insurance solution, our team of knowledgeable insurance brokers will get you the best price available
Your Partner
Safe time and effort by letting our team of expert insurance brokers do the work for you, we can manage your insurance on your behalf.
Clear Terms
We will put an end to the endless jargon, we can help you understand your quotes and policies in clear terms.
Full Cover
We are able to access insurance policies that are not available when buying direct, allowing us to get you a more comprehensive cover and better benefits.
What our clients have to say
109 James St, New Farm
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Great Experience. I asked Alison to help us arrange a building and public liability insurance for a retail shop. Alison is very helpful and supportive in our insurance arrangement matters. She provided 18 quotes for us to … More choose and helped us find the most competetive offer on the market. I would like to say many thanks for Alison's effort to help us get a smooth process. 100% recommend.
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We have just confirmed our first residential strata insurance with CIB. I recommend the brokers at CIB to manage your insurance needs.The service from Debbie Blanco was excellent. She thoroughly explained, coordinated the … More quote for 2025-26, and followed through the process in detail to confirmation.She was ably assisted by James Kirk, who coordinated the compliance and insurance valuation.Stephen Fairbairn, Noosaville
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When it comes to insurance, I always end up feeling frustrated. Home insurance in particular gives me a real headache—what type do I need? Owner-occupied, investment, contents… should I have contents for both or just one?Technology … More makes it easy to click through everything on your phone, but when you actually need a real person to guide you, there’s no one there. I recently realised I was insured for the wrong things—or not covered at all.So I called Tracey Friedland, whom I’ve worked with for a long time for business insurance and renewals. I asked, a bit humbled, “Do you only help with business insurance, or can you help with personal insurance too?”Tracey’s warm and confident reply was, “Of course, we can help!” What a relief.Within half a day and just a couple of phone calls, she had everything sorted—building insurance, contents, landlord cover—accurate, complete, and finally done properly. All my concerns were gone.What else can I say about Tracey Friedland?An absolutely amazing lady.
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Gina was fantastic in organising our home and contents insurance. I had to go back multiple times with changes, and she was always patient, responsive, and incredibly helpful. She made the whole process easy, and got us a … More great price too. Highly recommend!
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Gina De Bonis, it was a pleasure to work with you on my insurance policy. Even though I was referred to another broker through my agent located locally, it was your efficiency, customer care and commitment, that built the … More trust and got me choosing CIB over the other organisation even though the quotes were similar. And it was generous of you to say that every member of your team provided that high level of service, when I complimented your professionalism. You went above and beyond providing responses to the questions I asked, linking up the responses to helping me understand the pros and cons of choosing one option over the other, educating me and attempting to find the best deal for us. Thanks again and look forward to touching base early next year for my other insurance needs.
How can we help?
With access to a range of reputable insurers, and policies not available to the public, we can offer you a range of competitive quotes.
We’ll help you compare the price with the coverage offered for each, so you can make the best decision for your needs.
Trade credit insurance is complex and very individual to the policyholder’s business and balance sheet, so it’s important to have an excellent adviser.
For every new business quote and renewal, we break down all important changes and comparisons of your trade credit insurance options for you in plain English.
Frequently Asked Questions
There are many benefits of using a broker over buying directly from the insurer. Insurance brokers:
- Work on your behalf to secure you better protection through their negotiating power
- Help you understand your risks and empower you to make better life / business decisions
- Ensure insurers are held accountable to their promise to protect what you value during claims
- Save you time and money by taking care of comparing and customising policies for your needs
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