LITHIUM RHINO
Dealer Credit Application
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Let's get you set up on terms

About fifteen minutes. You'll need your EIN, your bank contact, and three suppliers who sell to you on terms. We turn applications around in three business days.

Your business

Exactly as registered with the state — not your trade name.

Where you are

Who pays the bills?

We send invoices straight to this person. A direct address gets you paid up on time and keeps invoices out of your inbox.

Not a shared info@ inbox — invoices get lost in those.

How you want invoices

Ownership

Everyone holding 20% or more. One owner will need to sign the guaranty at the end — make sure that person is the one filling this out, or it'll stall at the last step.

What you're asking for

Net 30 is the longest term we offer — that's company-wide, not a negotiation. What grows over time is your credit limit.

New dealers typically start at Net 14 and move to Net 30 after six months of on-time payment.

One disclosure question

Bank reference

One quick confirmation that the account is in good standing. We don't ask for balances.

Never enter a full account number. Four digits is all we need.

Trade references

Three suppliers who currently sell to you on terms. We only need two to come back, but people go on vacation — three gives us margin. Give us the AP contact's direct email, not a general inbox.

Please don't list banks, landlords, or utilities.We're looking for suppliers whose invoices you pay on terms, the same way you'd pay ours.

Resale certificate

Required for each state where you take delivery. Without a valid certificate on file we have to charge sales tax.

Terms of sale

The agreement behind your credit account. Please read it — scroll to the bottom to continue.

In these Terms of Sale, “Lithium Rhino” means [LEGAL ENTITY NAME], a North Carolina [entity type], and “Applicant” means the business named in this application.

1. Approval and Credit Limit. Credit is extended at Lithium Rhino's sole discretion. No credit terms are effective until Applicant receives written notice of an approved credit limit and payment terms. The maximum payment term offered is net thirty (30) days from invoice date; Lithium Rhino does not extend terms beyond that period. Lithium Rhino may reduce, suspend, or revoke credit at any time upon written notice, with or without cause.

2. Payment. Invoices are due in full within the approved terms period measured from the invoice date, without offset, deduction, or holdback. Payment shall be made by ACH, wire, or check to the remit-to address on the invoice. Where credit card payment is accepted, a processing surcharge may apply and will be disclosed at the time of the order.

3. Service Charge on Past-Due Amounts. Balances not paid when due accrue a service charge of one and one-half percent (1.5%) per month — eighteen percent (18%) per annum — or the maximum rate permitted by applicable law, whichever is less, from the due date until paid in full.

4. Credit Hold. If any invoice is past due, or if a pending order would cause the account to exceed its approved credit limit, Lithium Rhino may place the account on credit hold and withhold shipment of any open or future order until the account is brought current or the limit is increased in writing. An order held under this section is not cancelled unless Applicant requests cancellation in writing.

5. Application of Payments. Payments are applied to the oldest outstanding invoice first, regardless of any contrary notation on the payment or accompanying remittance.

6. Purchase Orders and Conflicting Forms. Any term or condition in Applicant's purchase order, acknowledgment, or other form that conflicts with or adds to these Terms of Sale is rejected and is not binding on Lithium Rhino, whether or not separately objected to.

7. Title, Risk of Loss, and Security Interest. Title and risk of loss pass to Applicant upon delivery to the carrier. Applicant grants Lithium Rhino a purchase-money security interest in all goods sold on credit and in the proceeds of their resale until the corresponding invoices are paid in full, and authorizes Lithium Rhino to file a UCC-1 financing statement to perfect that interest without further signature.

8. Claims and Returns. Claims for shortage, visible damage, or non-conformity must be made in writing within ten (10) days of delivery. Warranty claims are governed by Lithium Rhino's published warranty. A pending claim does not suspend Applicant's obligation to pay undisputed amounts when due.

9. Costs of Collection. Applicant agrees to pay all costs of collecting past-due amounts, including reasonable attorneys' fees, court costs, and collection agency fees, whether or not suit is filed.

10. Ongoing Information. Applicant will furnish updated credit or financial information on reasonable request, and will notify Lithium Rhino in writing within ten (10) days of any change in ownership, entity form, business name, or business address.

11. Governing Law and Venue. This application and all sales made under it are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The parties consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts sitting in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

12. Entire Agreement. These Terms of Sale, this application, and any written credit approval constitute the entire agreement between the parties regarding credit, and supersede all prior oral or written understandings. No modification is effective unless in writing and signed by an officer of Lithium Rhino.

— End of Terms of Sale —

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Certification

Signed on behalf of the business.

What you're authorizing By signing you confirm the information here is true and complete, and you authorize Lithium Rhino to contact the bank and trade references you listed, obtain business credit reports on the company, and report your payment experience to credit agencies and trade groups. You confirm you're authorized to sign for the business.
Typing your name here is your signature on behalf of the business.
We'll email you a copy of the signed application.

Personal guaranty

Required on every terms account we open. This is a separate signature from the one you just gave.

Notice to guarantor — please read carefully This is a personal guaranty. By signing below you become personally responsible for amounts the business owes Lithium Rhino, and Lithium Rhino may collect from you and your personal assets. If you'd rather not sign a guaranty, you can close this form and order on prepayment instead — many of our dealers do.

In consideration of Lithium Rhino extending credit to the business named in this application (the “Buyer”), and as a material inducement to Lithium Rhino to do so, the undersigned, individually and personally and jointly and severally if more than one (each a “Guarantor”), absolutely and unconditionally guarantees the full and prompt payment of all amounts now or hereafter owed by Buyer to Lithium Rhino, together with service charges and all costs of collection including reasonable attorneys' fees.

This is a continuing guaranty of payment and not of collection. Lithium Rhino is not required to first proceed against Buyer, any collateral, or any other guarantor before enforcing this Guaranty. Guarantor waives notice of acceptance of this Guaranty, notice of credit extended in reliance on it, presentment, demand, protest, and notice of default. Guarantor consents that Lithium Rhino may, without notice to Guarantor and without releasing Guarantor, change the credit limit or payment terms, grant extensions or indulgences, and release or settle with Buyer or any other guarantor.

This Guaranty continues until revoked by Guarantor in a written notice delivered to Lithium Rhino by certified mail and actually received. Revocation applies only to credit extended after receipt of that notice and does not affect obligations outstanding at that time. This Guaranty is governed by North Carolina law, with jurisdiction and venue as stated in the Terms of Sale.

Please type your own name. This signature is personal to you.
Your home address, not the business address.

Check it over

Last look before this goes to our credit team. Use Back to fix anything.

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