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MCA Reconciliation: The Payment-Lowering Right Already in Your Contract

If revenue dropped and the daily debit didn’t, there’s a good chance your own agreement says it should have. The reconciliation clause is the MCA industry’s best-kept open secret: a contractual right to adjust the payment to your real revenue — no default, no new financing, no favor required. Funders don’t advertise it. We check for it in every file, free.

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JT Milton Merchant Advisory enforces reconciliation rights as the first lever in nearly every file: we find the clause, prepare the documented request the way funders can’t brush off, and fold it into the larger plan when one lever isn’t enough. Honest answers — including “your contract doesn’t have one,” when it doesn’t.

Why the Clause Exists

The clause funders need — and hope you never read

An MCA is papered as a purchase of a percentage of your future revenue. For that structure to hold up, the payment has to actually track revenue — which is why reconciliation clauses exist: when sales drop, the fixed daily debit is supposed to be adjusted down to the true agreed percentage. Courts examining whether an MCA is a genuine purchase or a disguised loan treat a functioning reconciliation right as central to the answer. Translation: the clause protects the funder’s contract only if it protects you too. Invoking it isn’t aggression — it’s using the deal as written.

Know what you’re actually paying while you’re at it: the true-cost calculator turns your payback and debit into the effective APR — the number that frames every conversation that follows.

Do It Right

How a reconciliation request succeeds

1 · Find the clause

Read your agreement — or let us

Reconciliation terms hide under names like “adjustment,” “true-up,” or “reconciliation,” each with its own procedure and deadlines. The procedure is the trap: miss its specifics and the funder has cover to refuse.

2 · Document the drop

Bank statements, not stories

Clean, unaltered revenue records showing the decline against the baseline. Funders act on paper they can’t argue with, and everything you submit also builds the record for whatever comes next.

3 · Demand in writing

Invoke the clause, keep the receipt

A written request citing the specific provision, delivered per the contract. Honored — your payment drops lawfully. Refused — you now hold documentation that strengthens every other path: renegotiation, restructuring, or defense.

Common Questions

MCA reconciliation: FAQ

What is MCA reconciliation?

The MCA structure is nominally a purchase of a percentage of your future revenue — so when your revenue drops, many agreements require the fixed daily debit to be adjusted downward to match the true agreed percentage. That adjustment process is reconciliation. It exists in the contract because the funder needs it there: a fixed payment that never adjusts looks like a loan, not a purchase. Which is exactly why the clause is real leverage.

How do I request reconciliation properly?

In writing, per your agreement's stated procedure (some clauses have short windows and specific delivery addresses — follow them exactly), with documentation: typically your recent bank statements or revenue records showing the decline, submitted as clean unaltered copies. A vague phone call asking for mercy is not a reconciliation request; a documented written demand invoking the specific clause is. We prepare these as part of the file review.

Does reconciliation reduce what I owe?

No — and be wary of anyone who implies it does. Reconciliation adjusts the payment pace to your actual revenue; the total payback amount and factor rate stay the same, so the advance simply takes longer to pay down. What it buys is survival room: a daily debit your business can actually carry. If the total itself is the problem, that's a restructuring or settlement conversation — a different lever, which the free review also covers.

What if my funder refuses or stalls?

A refusal is information. Courts deciding whether an MCA is a true purchase or a disguised loan look hard at whether the reconciliation right actually functions — a funder that won't honor its own clause is undermining the foundation of its contract, and sophisticated negotiators know it. A documented request plus a documented refusal strengthens nearly every path that follows: renegotiation, restructuring, or defense.

My contract has no reconciliation clause. Now what?

Some agreements genuinely lack one (weekly-payment and newer contracts vary), and that absence is itself notable in characterization fights. Your levers become negotiation and restructuring — funders modify schedules regularly when shown credible numbers. Either way, the first step is the same: have someone who reads these contracts daily read yours. That's free.

Your contract may already hold the relief. Find out today — free.

We read the agreement, find the clause if it’s there, and prepare the request that gets honored — or the record that powers what comes next.

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