Which funding products does this apply to?

Merchant Cash Advance, Working Capital, Term Loan, Business Line of Credit, Revenue-Based Financing. Each has its own page listing the funders in this directory that offer it and what each one publishes about its terms.

Are the figures here quotes?

No. Every worked example is labelled illustrative and exists to show the arithmetic. What a particular lender charges is on that lender's page, where it publishes it at all.

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Are the examples real deals?

No. Every worked example is labelled illustrative and exists to show the arithmetic. What any particular lender charges is on that lender's page, where it publishes it.

Why do you never say what a typical rate is?

Because we cannot source it. A market average assembled from lenders who do not publish prices is a guess with a decimal point on it. Where a lender publishes a figure, we show that figure and say where it came from.

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Which Bank Accounts Do You Submit for Business Funding?

Which bank accounts do you have to submit?

The operating account, and any other account revenue passes through. Choosing the tidy one and omitting the busy one is the version that goes wrong.

By Find Me Funders research desk Updated 14 September 2026 1017 words 5 min read

Drafted with AI assistance. Not yet independently checked. Nobody has verified the claims on this page against a source, so treat the figures and legal points as a starting point rather than as settled, and confirm anything you are about to act on. How we check things.

Which bank accounts do I have to submit for a funding application?

Submit the business operating account through which revenue actually flows, plus any other account carrying revenue or debt payments. Submitting only a clean secondary account is a misrepresentation and it is detected easily — unmatched transfers, a cost base that does not add up, and bank-link connections that enumerate every account at the institution. If you changed banks mid-window, submit both and say so; if a second account exists because an existing funder debits it, that is the account they most want to see.

The default answer

The business operating account, for the number of months requested, in the name of the applicant entity.

If revenue is genuinely split across two accounts, submit both. A funder sizing an offer against half your revenue makes half an offer, and the fix costs you one extra PDF.

Why selective submission fails

Handing over the tidy account and withholding the busy one is the most common version of this, and it does not survive contact with an underwriter.

The transfers do not match anything.Money arriving from an account that was not submitted appears as a credit with no visible source. It is stripped from revenue and it flags that another account exists.

The cost base does not add up.A business with staff and premises produces payroll debits, rent, insurance and card processing fees. Where those are missing, the money is being run somewhere else, and an underwriter will ask where.

A bank connection enumerates everything.Where you link an account rather than uploading PDFs, the connection typically lists every account you hold at that institution. Choosing which to show is not always yours to choose.

The application asked.Most applications ask you to list all business accounts. Answering that question inaccurately is a misrepresentation in the contract, not an oversight.

The specific cases

You switched banks inside the window.Submit both, in date order, with one line explaining the switch. A statement file that starts mid-window looks like a hidden account until you explain it.

A second account exists to hold an existing advance's debits.That is precisely the account they are looking for. It will be found in the transfers regardless — see how underwriters detect stacking.

A savings or reserve account.Not usually required, and often worth volunteering. It is evidence of a cushion, which is the thing thin balances undermine.

A personal account.Not normally submitted for the business decision. It may be requested where you are a sole proprietor, or where a guarantor's liquidity is being assessed. Mixing personal and business money in one account is the underlying problem to fix, because it makes the business file unreadable.

A dedicated payroll or tax account.Submit if asked. Regular funded transfers into a tax account is a good signal, not a bad one.

A merchant processor holding account.Not a bank account as such, but processing statements are frequently requested alongside — see how to read a merchant processing statement.

What they check first

The account holder name against the applicant entity. A statement in a trading name that is not the registered entity, or in the owner's personal name, stops the file — see entity type and what it changes about a funding offer.

Then completeness. Statements are numbered "Page 3 of 7", and a missing page invites a question. Bank-generated PDFs, statements sent directly by the bank, or a read-only bank connection are all treated better than printouts, and altered statements are treated as fraud rather than as a formatting choice.

What the statements are actually used to compute

Knowing what gets extracted makes the submission decision obvious, because every figure below depends on having all of the accounts.

Illustrative only —three months of deposits at $142,000, $128,000 and $151,000, an average of $140,333.

From that an underwriter builds:

Average monthly deposits, usually excluding transfers between your own accounts, refunds and loan proceeds. This is the base for the offer size.

Deposit count, as a proxy for how many customers there are. Twelve deposits a month against $140,000 of volume is a concentration risk; two hundred deposits is a customer base.

Average daily balance.At $18,400 on those deposits, the business holds about four days of receipts. That figure decides whether a daily debit survives a slow week.

Negative days and NSF items, counted rather than averaged.

Existing financing debits.A daily debit of $310 across roughly 21.7 business days, plus a weekly of $1,450 across 4.33 weeks, is $13,010 a month — 9.3% of deposits already committed before anything new.

Then the test that decides the file: add the proposed debit. A new daily of $615 adds about $13,346 a month and takes total financing debits to 18.8% of deposits. Whether that clears is the decision, and it is arithmetic run on the statements you chose to send.

Leave out the account carrying the weekly debit and the analyst computes a friendlier number from a shorter list — until the transfers fail to reconcile, at which point the file is about your disclosure rather than your cash flow.

How many months, and why the window matters

Three months is the common request; twelve is common at the bank and SBA tier. The window is not neutral for a business whose revenue moves.

If the three months requested happen to be your weakest, the offer is sized against your weakest. Two responses are legitimate and one is not. You can volunteer additional months with a line explaining the seasonality, which gives the underwriter the pattern rather than the snapshot. You can ask what window the funder uses and time the application accordingly. What you cannot do is choose which three months to send and present them as the last three.

Unusual items get stripped, or questioned

A single large deposit, a refund, an insurance settlement, an owner contribution or loan proceeds is each removed from revenue once the underwriter spots it, and queried where the statement alone does not explain it. For each one, note the date, the amount, what it was, and whether it recurs. That note is what turns a stripped deposit back into a question you have already answered.

The one-page note that goes with them

List every business account you hold, what each is used for, and which are enclosed. Mark the large one-off deposits and the transfers.

It takes ten minutes and it removes the two questions that most often cause a file to bounce back for a second review: what is this deposit, and where is the rest of the money going.