Video conferencing finance
Equip meeting rooms with cameras, displays and room systems, funded as a single rollout instead of room by room out of cash flow.
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Yes. Video conferencing kit is one of the better technology assets to fund because it is real, visible hardware, cameras, displays, room compute, touch panels, that stays mounted where it is installed and has a working second-hand market. Agreements are usually lease or hire purchase against the business. Used equipment is occasionally funded through established AV resellers. The one thing to watch is the room licensing: most platforms require a per-room subscription, and that portion is a service rather than an asset, so it is assessed on your covenant rather than treated as security.
Who finances this
Professional firms whose clients now expect to meet remotely, businesses with offices in more than one location, and any organisation that has reduced its floor space and reconfigured what remains into meeting rooms. The trigger is often an office refurbishment, a landlord fit-out, or the moment leadership realises staff are dialling into important calls on laptop cameras. Training providers, healthcare organisations and legal practices running remote hearings or consultations are frequent applicants.
How lenders see it
This is one of the parts of IT where I am genuinely comfortable. A conferencing bar, a mounted display, a table touch controller: these are identifiable items, they are wall or ceiling fixed rather than portable, and the AV trade does buy used equipment. Recovery is still imperfect, demounting costs money and installed brackets stay behind, but it is not fiction. So I will give the hardware some weight. What I do not give weight to is the room subscription, the cabling or the installation days, which on a multi-room rollout can be a sizeable share. I like estate-wide projects from established businesses; I am more careful with a small company kitting out a boardroom far beyond its scale.
Buying used
Yes, sometimes. Ex-corporate conferencing hardware trades through AV resellers and a few funders will consider it, though most prefer new equipment with manufacturer warranty and current platform certification.
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Machines we have funded
| Logitech Rally Bar | All-in-one video bar for medium rooms |
|---|---|
| Logitech Rally Bar Mini | Video bar for small meeting rooms |
| Logitech Tap IP | Touch controller for meeting rooms |
| Poly Studio X70 | All-in-one video bar for large rooms |
| Poly Studio X52 | Video bar for medium meeting rooms |
| Cisco Room Bar Pro | Video bar for larger meeting rooms |
| Cisco Room Kit EQ | Codec and camera package for rooms |
| Neat Board Pro | Touchscreen room device for collaboration |
| Crestron Flex room systems | Room kits for Teams or Zoom |
| Yealink MeetingBar A30 | All-in-one room bar with controller |
Can we finance several meeting rooms at once?
Yes, and an estate-wide rollout is usually a stronger application than a single room. Funders like a co-ordinated project with a clear schedule of equipment and locations. It also tends to be better commercially, since integrators price multi-room work more keenly than one-off installations, which we can factor into the structure.
Does the room subscription get included?
It can be bundled into the project where it is purchased up front, though the funder treats it as a service with no recovery value. Where the subscription is billed annually by the platform provider it normally sits outside the agreement. Your integrator’s quote will make the split clear and we work from that.
Is conferencing hardware genuinely easier to finance than laptops?
Yes, modestly. It is installed rather than carried, it is identifiable, and there is an AV trade market for used equipment. That gives an underwriter something real behind the agreement. Your accounts still drive the decision, but you will typically find more funders willing to look at the proposal.
Can the display and mounting be included with the camera system?
Usually yes. Screens, brackets, table boxes and in-room cabling normally appear on the same integrator quote and go on one agreement. The display retains a little value; the bracket and cabling do not, as they stay with the room. It is simpler to fund the whole room as a unit.
We are refurbishing the office. Should AV be financed with the fit-out?
The AV element is generally cleaner on its own, because it contains identifiable equipment, whereas partitions, flooring and decoration have no recovery value whatsoever. Mixing them can drag the whole application onto pure covenant assessment. We are happy to look at how the project is best divided before anything is submitted.
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