San Juan · Argentina
Trade credit, done soberly

Before you ship on credit, spend five minutes with a CUIT.

San Ramón S.A. is a private company in the city of San Juan working in commercial credit administration — helping small suppliers decide, document and track the credit they extend to their customers. We do not lend money to anyone. This page is the part of the work worth publishing: where the public data lives, how to read it, and where it stops.

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Two public registers, both free, both by CUIT

Argentina gives every supplier two remarkable tools, and most small businesses have never opened either. Both are published by the Central Bank, both are consulted online in under a minute, and both can be checked for any CUIT — not only your own, with no registration and no fee.

Central de Deudores Banks and financial entities report their customers' debts every month. The register consolidates them and shows how each debtor is classified across the whole financial system — the famous situación from 1 to 5. Answers: how is this CUIT paying its banks?
Cheques rechazados A separate register of rejected cheques, showing the count and the amounts recorded against a CUIT. A liquidity signal in its own right, independent of the debt classification. Answers: is this CUIT bouncing paper right now?

Neither register tells you whether somebody is honest. They tell you something narrower and more useful: how this CUIT has actually been paying, as reported by institutions that have no reason to flatter it. Consult them on the Central Bank's own site — not through intermediaries, and never through anyone who charges for what the BCRA publishes free.

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What the five situaciones mean to a supplier

The classification runs from 1 to 5 and is driven, in essence, by days of delay. The bank's question is "will this loan be repaid?". Your question is different — "should I ship to this customer on open account?" — so the same number reads differently. Click through the scale.

SITUACIÓN 1 — 5 General information — not advice on any particular customer
Situación 1 — Normal
Delays of up to 31 days

Paying the financial system on time, or close to it. This is the classification most businesses hold, and it is what you want to see — alongside a clean cheque record.

SUPPLIER'S READING: a green light to agree written terms — not a reason to skip them. Start with a modest limit and let the relationship earn the rest.
Categories and day ranges are the Central Bank's, summarised; the register shows what each entity reported and when. Always read the detail, not just the worst number.
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Four things the registers cannot tell you

Public data is the beginning of the check, not the end of it. The register has blind spots, and knowing them is as valuable as knowing the register exists.

  1. Debts to suppliers are invisibleThe register shows bank debt. A customer who pays the bank religiously and strings along every supplier in the province can hold a spotless situación 1. The banks get reported; you do not.
  2. The picture is a month oldEntities report monthly, so what you read is a photograph taken weeks ago. A business can deteriorate faster than the register updates — which is exactly why the cheque register, which moves quicker, is worth reading alongside it.
  3. You must check the CUIT you will actually invoiceThe company and the person behind it are different CUITs with different histories. Confirm which legal entity is buying from you, and read the record of that one — a clean personal record next to a battered company record is an answer in itself.
  4. A clean record is not a guaranteeSituación 1 means the banks are being paid today. It does not underwrite your invoice. It is a filter that catches the worst cases early — the rest is terms, limits and attention.
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The discipline that makes trade credit survivable

Most supplier losses do not come from failing to check. They come from checking once, in the good month, and never re-reading anything until the cheque bounces.

Habits that protect you

  • Written terms before the first delivery — amount, due date, what happens on delay
  • A credit limit per customer, decided calmly, respected under pressure
  • Re-check the CUIT before every meaningful increase in exposure
  • Watch your own receivables ageing weekly — the register watches banks, you watch you
  • Stop shipping when the account is overdue. The rule only works if it is automatic

How suppliers actually get hurt

  • The growth order: a struggling customer doubles the order precisely because others cut them off
  • Terms that stretch quietly — 30 days becomes 45, becomes "after the harvest"
  • Shipping against a promise while the overdue balance sits unmentioned
  • Confusing a long relationship with a current one
  • Checking the register once, in 2023
The most dangerous order you will ever receive

It is the unusually large one from a customer already paying you late. Everyone else has shortened their terms, so the demand concentrates on whoever has not noticed yet. The order feels like growth; it is actually the queue forming at your door. Check the register the day that order arrives.

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What San Ramón is — and what it is not

San Ramón S.A. is a private company registered in the province of San Juan. Our work is the administration of commercial credit: helping suppliers set written terms, keep the paperwork that makes an invoice collectable, track exposures and read the public registers properly. We work with our clients' processes and our own capital — never with anybody else's money.

What we do not do
  • Lend money to the public, or to anyone — we are not a lender of any kind
  • Act as a bank, financial entity, exchange house or payment provider
  • Buy, discount or factor invoices, or arrange for anyone else to
  • Collect debts on behalf of others or contact anybody's customers to demand payment
  • Hold, pool or manage funds belonging to any other person
  • Give legal, tax or accounting advice — those are regulated professions, and when a question is one of theirs we say so

In Argentina, companies that extend credit to the public without being banks must register with the Central Bank as non-financial credit providers. We do not extend credit to the public, we are not such a provider, and nothing on this page offers credit to anyone. Whether any firm is supervised is checkable on the Central Bank's own site — never take a company's word for it, including ours.

About our name and our address

"San Ramón" is a common name and other unrelated businesses use it, in San Juan and elsewhere. We are not connected with any of them. Our registered address on Av. Gral. Las Heras Sud is used for correspondence and the service of documents; we receive visitors by appointment only — please write or call first.

The five-minute routine, in full

MINUTE ONE

Confirm the exact CUIT of the entity that will owe you the money — the company, not the person who shook your hand.

MINUTES TWO TO FOUR

Read its situación across all reporting entities in the Central de Deudores, then its record in the rejected-cheques register. Both free, both on the Central Bank's site.

MINUTE FIVE

Decide the limit and the terms in writing, before the goods move. The check cost you nothing; skipping it is the most expensive free thing in commerce.

Contact

Tell us in a few lines what you sell, on what terms, and what keeps going wrong. Written enquiries get a written answer.

Enquiries

Email
reply@sanramonsa.com
Phone
+54 351 865 5782
Languages
Spanish, English

Registered address

Company
San Ramón S.A.
Address
Av. Gral. Las Heras Sud 519
San Juan, Provincia de San Juan
J5402FNF, Argentina
Note
Correspondence and service of documents. By appointment only.