August 1st Square shareholder letter came out with another outstanding quarter for Square Loans. More loans than ever were started in the last 3 months, an outstanding show of commitment to the service.
"Square Loans facilitated approximately 142,000 loans totaling $1.45 billion in originations, up 32% year over year."
That breaks down to almost 1,600 loans a day (66 an hour, or more than 1 per minute). averaging $10,200+ per loan.
So yes, there are THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of Square Loans happening all the time. It is unbelievable that they can get this number of loans even facilitated, that is a staggering number of loans to Square customers. It wouldn't be possible without the Square Loans Algorithm going thru and promoting offers to be given. For every one post on here saying they haven't gotten a loan or 5th offer, 10s of thousands have gotten loans. The service keeps growing though it may not seem like it to a user that is waiting for their 3rd loan.
@Twpchair
Good news, bad news, eh @cmeshine. There are a number of reasons that COULD be part of why your new offer was lower.
- Square might be slowing down on how much loan exposure they want to have on their balance sheet. They are, after all, a publicly traded company that has to answer to their shareholders and investors.
- If our sales are flat or at least not growing at a good rate to cover inflation and higher interest, then Square’s algorithm understands that inflation is eating into our available cash to pay bills, etc. Flat sales (or very slowly growing sales) are always red flags to lenders, Square or not.
- Sometimes how long it takes us to pay off our current loans can be a factor. Let’s say that previous loans were paid off with automatic payments in 8-10 months in the past. But for this current loan it took us 12-15 months. That tells Square that our card processing volume can’t keep you with higher loan amounts. Yes, they give us 18 months to fully pay a loan, but they obviously prefer that we pay them off closer to the 12 month mark.
- If our cash/card ratio drastically changes, and cash spikes or is consistently higher than historical for our business, that is another red flag. Since Square must only consider card volume when calculating repayment rates this can become a problem.
Of course, I’m not saying that any of these contributed to your lower offer. I’m just throwing out a few reasons why this CAN happen.
