- Type
- not stated
- Format
- Tabular monthly account-level A/R panel (buyer account, supplier, balance, high balance, days slow, past-due percentage, last-sale date), delivered as aggregated industry trend reports and member-facing credit lookups rather than raw export
- Volume
- Modest in raw rows, exceptional in exclusivity: est. thousands of active retailer-buyer accounts observed monthly across six-figure merchandise balances, giving low hundreds of thousands of account-month observations over a multi-year archive. The value is not volume — it is that these receivables are unsecured, material, and unobservable in any bureau or public dataset.
- Users
- N/A as a user metric — participation is by member company, not registered users. The relevant scale is contributor count: 300+ credit professionals across 70+ supplier member companies. The covered population is the US home-furnishings retailer base those 70+ suppliers invoice, which is a large but bounded set of retail buyers. Association itself is tiny (~5 employees).
- History
- 20 years
- Update frequency
- not stated
- Growth
- Mature — a long-standing trade association running a steady-state monthly data exchange at ~5 employees, with the value proposition being continuity and comparability of the pool rather than growth. The article's framing is about defending an established member benefit, not scaling a product.
- Launched
- Est. 1990s-2000s — a credit association of this kind is an institutional fixture built on decades of member trust and reciprocal data sharing, and its organisation record predates 2015 with an established High Point presence at the centre of the US furniture market. The monthly A/R pool is the association's long-standing core function rather than a recent product, so an early-internet-era origin is the reasonable estimate. Request the pool's inception year for precision.
- Delivery
- not stated
- Entity mapping
- not stated
- Sample
- not stated
- Point-in-time
- not stated
- Licence
- not stated