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title: "Software Payment Practices: 5-Year Analysis (2020-2025)"
date: 2025-11-14T00:00:00+00:00
url: https://paymentcheck.co.uk/blog/reports/software-payment-practices-2020-2025-analysis
description: "Software Payment Practices: 5-Year Analysis (2020-2025) - Payment practices analysis from PaymentCheck"
category: "Reports"
---

# Software Payment Practices: 5-Year Analysis (2020-2025)

# Software Payment Practices: Modest Improvement Seen Between 2020 and 2025, Up 5.7 Points

## The Comparison

*   **2020:** Across a sample of 146 software companies, average payment practice score reached 70.2 out of 100.
*   **2025:** Surveying 132 companies in the sector, the average score increased to 75.9 out of 100.

## What This Means

While the data reveals an upward trend, the 5.7-point increase between 2020 and 2025 indicates only a slight improvement in overall payment performance within the software sector. This potentially reflects either the relative effectiveness of established payment processes or the difficulty in achieving more substantial gains in payment efficiency over a five-year period.

Overall payment practices improved slightly, from 70.2/100 in 2020 to 75.9/100 in 2025, with 146 and 132 companies tracked respectively. [late payment calculator](/free-late-invoice-calculator)