You get paid when a milestone closes or a project completes — not every business day. A standard MCA debits you as if you did. Merchant Fund Express buys out your existing construction MCA and refinances it into a payment structure built around how project cash actually flows.
Get Your Free MCA Payoff Quote →Call (305) 384-8391Construction revenue is project-based and lumpy by nature. A contractor gets paid on a draw schedule tied to completed phases, or a lump sum at project closeout, not a steady stream of daily transactions like a retail business. Many contracts also hold back retainage — typically 5-10% of each draw — until the entire project is signed off, sometimes months after the work itself is finished. Between draws, a contractor can go days or weeks with money going out for labor, materials, and equipment rental while very little comes in.
A merchant cash advance does not know any of that. It debits your business bank account on a fixed daily or weekly schedule regardless of where you are in a project's payment cycle. If a draw is running late because a general contractor is slow to process paperwork, or because an inspection got pushed back a week, the MCA debit does not pause. That is the core structural problem: MCA repayment assumes daily revenue, and construction revenue arrives in lumps tied to milestones that are often outside your direct control.
Weather and seasonality compound the problem. A winter shutdown in a northern climate, or a stretch of rain delays during a rainy season, can slow or halt billable progress on a job site while fixed costs and the MCA debit continue on schedule. Contractors juggling several jobs sometimes take a second advance against one project's future draw to cover payroll on another, which is how stacking happens in construction — not because the work isn't there, but because the timing between doing the work and getting paid for it does not match a daily debit calendar.
General contractors and subcontractors both run into the daily-debit mismatch, but the exposure looks different for each. A GC often manages draws directly with the property owner or lender and controls more of the payment timeline, though a GC is still waiting on inspections, change-order approvals, and closeout paperwork before the final draw releases. A sub is usually one step further removed — waiting on the GC to first collect from the owner, then process and release payment down the chain, which can add weeks on top of the project's own draw schedule even when the work itself is complete and approved.
That extra link in the payment chain is part of why subs sometimes reach for an MCA in the first place: payroll and material bills do not wait for a GC's back-office processing time, so short-term capital bridges the gap. The problem is the same daily-debit mismatch, just with an added layer of payment delay outside the sub's direct control. Whether you are a GC managing your own draw schedule or a sub waiting on payment further down the chain, a refinanced payment structure built around your actual collection timeline — not a flat daily assumption — is what closes that gap.
Refinancing your construction MCA starts with paying off the existing advance, or advances, in full so you are no longer debited against a schedule that assumes daily revenue. From there, we structure the replacement as Revenue Based Financing, using a fixed weekly or bi-weekly debit sized to your overall draw and billing pattern rather than a daily pull that ignores gaps between milestones.
If you are running several jobs and have advances stacked against different projects, we can consolidate them into one payoff and one ongoing payment, so you are tracking a single obligation instead of reconciling which funder is owed what against which job's draw. We also factor known retainage and typical draw-to-payment timelines into the structure, so the new payment reflects how your money actually moves — project by project, milestone by milestone — instead of a calendar that treats every day the same.
Upload your current MCA contract(s) plus three months of business bank statements.
We map how draws, milestone payments, and retainage actually land in your account against your current debits.
We design a buyout or consolidation with a payment cadence built around project cash flow, and pay off your existing funder(s).
Once approved, payoff funds go to your old provider and your new payment schedule begins — often the same day.
| Factor | Staying in Your Current MCA | Refinance / Buyout With MFE |
|---|---|---|
| Debit schedule | Fixed daily pull regardless of where you are between draws | Payment structured around your draw and milestone timeline |
| Retainage | Debits continue even while 5-10% of each draw sits held back | Retainage timeline factored into the payment structure |
| Stacked jobs | Multiple advances against different projects, all debiting separately | Consolidated into one payment |
| Weather/seasonal slowdowns | Fixed debit continues through a winter shutdown or rain delays | Trailing statement history informs a more realistic structure |
| Speed | Renewal pressure on the funder's timeline | 4-24 hour decisions, same-day funding possible |
We manage your buyout end-to-end and show you the real factor-rate math before you commit — no chain of brokers adding fees.
We weigh your draw history and deposit pattern more than your personal credit score.
For most requests under $250,000, your contract and three months of bank statements are enough.
We structure payments around milestone and retainage timelines instead of assuming flat daily revenue.
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Direct capital means real speed. Same-day funding is possible once documentation is complete.
Refinancing makes the most sense when your project pipeline is solid and the real issue is a debit schedule that keeps colliding with the gaps between draws — not a shortage of work. If you are winning bids and completing jobs but a daily MCA debit keeps forcing you to dip into next-project funds to cover this project's gap, restructuring around your actual draw timeline is usually a meaningful improvement. If your pipeline itself has slowed and upcoming work is uncertain, we will still review your file honestly and tell you what a realistic payment structure looks like given where your business actually stands, rather than sizing a payment your future draws may not support.
We review your trailing bank statements to see how draws and milestone payments actually land in your account over time, then structure a payment — often weekly rather than daily — sized to that pattern instead of assuming steady daily revenue the way a standard MCA does.
Retainage held by a general contractor or owner until project closeout is common in construction and does not disqualify you. We factor your typical retainage timeline into underwriting so the new payment structure accounts for money that is earned but not yet collectible.
We look at a full trailing bank statement history, not a single month, so a predictable winter slowdown or rainy-season dip is factored into how we size your new payment rather than treated as a red flag.
That is a common situation for contractors running multiple projects. We review each contract and remaining balance and consolidate them into a single payoff so one payment replaces several competing daily debits pulling against overlapping project revenue.
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