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# Fast-Track will soon stop running 🫤

**After a good few years of faithful service, Fast-track (Auto-Thune) will officially come to an end on 14 May 2025.**  
Fast-Track was our invoice financing option – it allowed you to get paid within a few days, in exchange for 3% of your invoice total.

# Why it’s coming to an end 🛑

We really did everything we could to keep it going. But after months of back and forth, our partnership with Aria (the external provider behind Fast-Track) has simply become too complicated. For a mix of **financial** and **regulatory** reasons, Aria has tightened the screws:

- The **cost of the service** has gone up (you may have noticed the pinch 💸)  
- **Fewer missions became eligible** over time (some of you saw Fast-Track quietly disappear for their clients)  
- And more recently, they’ve introduced operational changes that we **just can’t implement** without disrupting – or downright breaking – the way we handle payments with our clients.

**Long story short**: we’ve mutually agreed with Aria to part ways. Fast-Track will shut down for good on **14 May**.

# 🤨 So what now?

We know Fast-Track was a lifesaver for many of you, especially on longer missions.  
Here’s how we’re doing our best to soften the blow:

- We’ll keep up our relentless follow-ups with clients to make sure they stick to payment deadlines  
- If you're working with a client who *isn’t* a big corporate (where payment terms are often set in stone), you might be able to negotiate a quicker turnaround. And if you need backup for that conversation, **we’re here to help**  
- If you want to check on a client’s payment status, usual delays, or if your situation is a bit tricky, **just drop us a message** – we’ll look into it on a case-by-case basis and do what we can to speed things up.

### What are the payment rules now?

Our terms & conditions state that clients must pay **within 60 days**.  
Most of them stick to this (a few work on “45 days end of month” terms, just to keep things spicy).

The rule of thumb still stands: **if your client pays before the 60-day mark**, **we pay you as soon as the money hits our account**.  
We never sit on your cash.

We’re genuinely sorry for the change. We know it’s a pain, and we’re doing our best to make the transition as smooth as possible.  
As always, if you’ve got questions, just pop into the chat and say hi.

La bise,  
**The acracy team**