Deposit terms

Definition

How much a customer pays up front, which is what funds the material on a fence job.

Why It Matters

Fencing buys posts and panels before it installs them, so a shop collecting half at signing runs on its customers' money and one collecting on completion runs on its own. That single term decides whether the business needs a line of credit at all, and it is the first thing a new owner can change and the first thing that upsets a crew's rhythm if changed badly. Read the deposit policy alongside the backlog: a long backlog on thin deposits is a cash trap.