Lower your Credit Card Payments and Interest
Depending on the amount of debt you have, you may be spending a significant portion of your income paying your credit card bills. What makes this worse is that most of those payments are going to pay interest on those accounts. Most of your money is being wasted, lining your creditors’ pockets.
It is not enough to simply lower your credit card payments. If you lower your payment alone, you will only be making less progress towards paying off your debt, ensuring you’ll be paying on the account for longer. You must find a way to pay down your debt at the same time as lowering your payments.
One way to be able to pay down your debt is to get lower interest on your accounts. This would allow you to put your payments to better use as a greater portion of them would be able to go towards paying off the principle and not just the interest. You may be able to do this on your own, but in many cases you’ll find that you’ll need help to negotiate lower interest rates.
A debt management plan is a way to lower your interest rate and lower your monthly payment, in many cases. Because the debt management company can work with your creditors to negotiate a lower interest rate, the payments you make each month will be more productive, even if you might be able to pay less.
Another benefit of the debt management plan is that you only have to make one payment each month. This will save you time as well as money. It also provides you the accountability you need to pay down your credit cards.
By working to pay off your credit card bills, you won’t have to worry about paying credit card payments in the future. Once you are free of credit card debt, you can use your entire paycheck to pay or save for current and future needs and desires.
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September 2nd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
About your credit, if you've had this card a decent amount of time and have shown the unblemished history you report, you should calll their customer service and throw yourself at the mercy of the person who answers. Tell them honestly what happened, and ask them to look at your payment history and see that it is completely out of character for you. Ask that they accept another payment, and tell them you are cancelling the original check. If you can pay them immediately by debit or other means, do so. They really might take the blot off your credit rating if you do it once and never again. It worked for me. Don't forget to cancel that check at the bank. I feel for you, I have been there, but my credit card company was surprisingly nice about it. Good luck!
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
When you make the purchase you debit the appropriate expense or asset account for $1,000 and credit current liabilities. As you make payments, you debit current liabilities for the principal portion of the payment, debit interest expense for the interest portion, and credit cash for the amount of the payment.
If this is all Greek to you, consider a consultation with a CPA or EA who specializes in small business accounting and taxation to get set up on a bookkeeping system.
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
There are many things to consider in making that decision.
Do you have a shopping cart?
How fast do you want the funds into your acount?
Would you process the card over the internet or by phone?
You can get a complete package for the shopping cart and credit card processing. However, you need to consider a few things.
First. If you want the credit card sales to be automatically put into your bank account within 48hrs, PayPal is a bad option. It can take a few days for the transaction to hit your account and you must manually transfer the funds. A traditional merchant account will get the funds there quicker.
Second. PRICE. Make sure you are on the right pricing program. Will you be selling to businesses or individuals? You need to make sure and clarify the difference with the processor you choose.
Third. If you are taking your orders via the phone with just a informative website, all you need is a Virtual Terminal. Do not get a machine!
You can get more information here:
http://www.omnitranz.com
Good Luck!
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:52 pm
No, not unless it becomes a habit and they can see a pattern in late payments. Your late charge fee wiped out your payment. I had a 10.00 min payment due one time and was late. I got charged 25.00 late fee.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:45 am
How Payment Processing Works
Before being able to accept credit card transactions and other forms of online payments, a merchant will need to set up a merchant account with a bank. A merchant account is the industry term for a business banking relationship whereby you and a bank have arranged to accept credit card payments (usually, a local bank can suffice for this kind of relationship). Setting up a merchant account usually involves the bank understanding your business and working with a third-party processor to arrange a mechanism for accepting payments. For more information on setting up merchant accounts, we recommend you take a look through the http://www.card-gallery.com to get you started in the right direction.
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Those other responses didn't directly answer the question.
First, it is correct that paying more than the minimum *won't* affect your score. What you are trying to accomplish is to keep from being characterized by the CC companies as a struggling payer. The strategy is to pay the min plus a little while paying down other cards.
My experience is that paying an extra percent above the min will keep the CC software from identifying you as a "minimum only" payer. To be safe since some companies are bumping the min from 2.5% to 3%, I suggest you pay 4%.
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:46 pm
You have a couple of options.
Many Internet providers offer a checkout system for free or at minimal cost for the sites that they host. Mine does, although I don't use it because I don't sell anything.
If you are selling as an eBay shop, or even if you don't, then you can use PayPal for checking out and PayPal automatically accepts credit cards including Amex.
You can use a proprietary shopping basket checkout system through Yahoo or otherwise. Here's a specimen:
http://www.make-a-store.com/site/category/Yahoo_Software_Web_Service_Shopping_Cart_Software
I found it by Googling <Yahoo shopping basket>. There are a number of firms doing the same thing.
You can probably do it cheaper, maybe for free, with Yahoo! directly. Here't the link for that:
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/index.php
I don't think you ought to deal with credit card companies directly. You could easily get scammed by fraudsters using stolen or fake cards. The professionals take some or all of the risk off your hands, and they can check online for bad cards, and check addresses and CVV numbers and expiration dates.
Be careful: I would be cautious about shipping anything abroad except to Canada. And don't give refunds — especially for overpayments — until your bank tells you the money is cleared "without recourse", meaning no chargeback is possible.
Google <nigeria 419> and learn a bit about Internet scams, how even certified and cashiers checks, US postal money orders and Wal-Mart money orders are faked. Especially from overseas.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Call the credit card company and let them know that you realize you've missed two payments, but you're sending one in now. They'll be happy you called (if not, hang up on her) and even more happy that you now have to pay the added late fees and finance charges.
September 5th, 2009 at 5:42 am
As long as it is not 30-days or more late they will not report it as late.