Riddingtons Payroll and CIS is proud to announce recognition as a Good Business Pays Fast Payer Award winner for 2025, celebrating its commitment to paying suppliers quickly and fairly. This achievement reflects the company’s long-standing belief that prompt, reliable payments are fundamental to a healthy supply chain and a thriving contractor community.
The Good Business Pays Fast Payer Award recognises organisations that consistently pay the vast majority of their invoices on time and well within standard payment terms, over a sustained 12‑month period. In practice, this means meeting strict benchmarks on both speed and reliability of payment, rather than just having good intentions or a one‑off improvement.
Only a small proportion of larger UK businesses qualify as “fast payers”, underlining how demanding the criteria are and how rare truly strong payment performance remains. Being named a Fast Payer Award winner therefore places Riddingtons in a leading group of organisations actively changing the culture around supplier payments in the UK.
In payroll, construction and CIS supply chains, cash flow is not a “nice to have” – it is the difference between being able to meet wage runs, keep subcontractors on site and deliver on client projects. When invoices are paid promptly, smaller suppliers and contractor businesses can invest in staff, equipment and compliance, instead of wasting time chasing overdue payments.
Late payments can create a domino effect: if a main supplier is paid slowly, everyone further down the chain feels the pressure. Riddingtons’ fast payment ethos helps break that cycle by ensuring that the recruitment agencies, construction firms and contractor businesses it works with can rely on a predictable, sustainable cash flow.
Riddingtons has always positioned itself as a partner that takes both compliance and operational discipline seriously, from payroll accuracy to statutory reporting. Extending that same discipline to supplier payments means treating every supplier as an essential part of the service delivered to end clients.
Paying suppliers on time is seen as a core part of good business practice, not a back‑office afterthought. By embedding clear processes, transparent expectations and robust controls around payment runs, Riddingtons ensures that suppliers are paid accurately and quickly, month after month.
Many of the suppliers and partners in Riddingtons’ ecosystem are small and medium‑sized businesses, freelancers or specialist consultancies who feel cash flow pressure most acutely. For these firms, waiting an extra few weeks to be paid can mean delaying growth plans, struggling with overheads or even questioning their long‑term viability.
Consistently fast payment gives these businesses confidence to hire, invest and take on new contracts, which in turn strengthens the wider labour supply chain in payroll, CIS and construction. It also encourages more specialist providers to engage with Riddingtons, knowing they will be treated fairly and paid on time for their work.
The Good Business Pays movement was created to improve payment practices across UK supply chains, especially for small businesses that are often left waiting the longest. It is backed by key business and industry groups who recognise that fast payment is central to a resilient, growing economy.
With increasing expectations on large organisations to report transparently on how they treat suppliers, payment performance is moving firmly into the spotlight. By earning Fast Payer status in 2025, Riddingtons is not just meeting today’s expectations – it is anticipating the more transparent and accountable payment culture the UK is moving towards.
For existing and prospective clients, the Fast Payer Award provides independent assurance that Riddingtons operates to high standards not only in payroll compliance but in day‑to‑day financial behaviours. A business that respects its suppliers’ cash flow is far more likely to bring the same rigour and reliability to managing client payrolls and CIS obligations.
For suppliers and partners, the award reinforces that working with Riddingtons means joining a supply chain built on fairness, transparency and mutual respect. It signals that the company understands how critical timely payment is to their operations and is committed to maintaining that standard as it grows.
Being recognised as a Fast Payer in 2025 is an important milestone, but for Riddingtons it is also a platform to keep improving and to help raise expectations across the payroll and CIS sectors. As the business landscape evolves, maintaining high payment performance will remain a core part of how Riddingtons measures its own success.
Riddingtons will continue to invest in systems, processes and supplier relationships that support fast, accurate and compliant payments, alongside its specialist payroll and CIS services. By doing so, the company aims to contribute to a UK business environment where paying on time is the norm, not the exception – and where suppliers of every size can plan, grow and thrive with confidence.
