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How to pay your credit card
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Getting started online
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If you're not registered for Internet Banking, you can visit us in branch or call us. You can also pay by post.
You’ll need your 16-digit credit card number if you call us.
A look at the details
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- You can make payments to your credit card account at any time, but you need to pay at least the minimum amount shown on your statement each month by the due date. Your minimum payment is either 2.5% of your balance plus any interest and fees or £5 – whichever is higher. Learn more about minimum payments.
- If you can't pay the whole statement balance, it's a good idea to pay as much as you can, as it may help to keep any interest costs down.
- If you only make the minimum payment each month, it'll take longer and cost you more to pay off your balance.
- If you miss or make a late payment, you are likely to be charged a late fee and damage your credit rating. You could also lose any promotional rates on your credit card and have to pay the standard interest rate instead.
- Set up a regular Direct Debit payment and we’ll automatically claim your selected payment amount when it’s due.
- If a Direct Debit isn’t taken for 37 months, it will become inactive, and your bank or building society will remove the details from their systems. If this happens, you’ll need to set up a new one.
- You can also make payments, instead or in addition to a Direct Debit, from a bank account, with a debit card, by cheque or with cash at a branch.
- If you choose to make one-off payments, just make sure that the method you use will get your payment to us on time.
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In addition to fees and charges, you could lose any promotional rates which apply to your account if you miss a payment. In that situation, your standard account interest rates and fees will apply. Missing a payment could also affect your credit score and ability to borrow in future, so it’s important to stay on top of things and manage your account well.
You need to make at least the minimum payment shown on your statement each month, and make sure that it reaches your account by the due date.If you’re experiencing difficulties with making credit card payments, please let us know so we can help. You’ll find information and support on our money worries page.
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You can change your payment due date to better suit your needs. For example, if you usually receive your salary later than your due date falls.The fastest way to do this is through our Mobile Banking app or Internet Banking on a laptop or desktop computer.
- On the Mobile Banking app, from your credit card account summary select the 3 dots, scroll to Manage Account. Select Change payment due date to begin.
- To use Internet Banking, log in or register to get started. From your credit card account summary, select ‘More actions’, then ‘Paying your credit card’. Here, select ‘Request payment due date change’
Just be aware, your change may apply to a future payment, rather than the next one, depending on when you make your request.
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Different rates of interest could apply to different parts of your balance, and whether the standard variable rate or a promotional rate applies.
What's your standard variable rate?
Your standard variable rate is the rate of interest you pay when you have no promotional offers in place. It's also the rate you'd go back to paying after a promotional rate ends. You can find your current standard variable rates on your monthly statement.
Find out more about interest rates
What's a promotional rate?
Promotional rates are offered for a fixed period of time. For example, a 0% offer rate or a rate lower than your standard interest rate.
Find out more about promotional interest rates
You can check the rates that apply to your account balance on your latest credit card statement. You can view your latest statement using Internet Banking, the Mobile Banking app, or on your latest printed statement if you receive them.
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When you make a payment, we'll pay off what you owe in this order:
- Overdue amounts carried over from previous statements.
- Existing balances on your current statement, starting with the highest rate of interest first.
- Any new transactions not yet showing on your current statement.
Please note: If you're in persistent debt, we may apply your payments differently.
Why do we pay off higher rate balances first?
To help reduce the amount of interest you’ll pay overall, we’ll pay off balances on your current statement with a higher rate of interest first. Even if you have a lower rate promotional offer that's coming to an end soon.
What about different balance types with the same interest rate?
If you have more than one balance type, with the same interest rate, we'll pay off what you owe in this order:
- Cash transactions.
- Cash purchases.
- Balance and money transfers.
- Default fees, including interest and other charges added.
What about multiple offers of the same interest rate and the same balance type?
Multiple offers of the same interest rate and the same balance type will be paid off in the order you took them out, not the order in which the offers will end.
For example:
You take out a 12 month Money Transfer offer, which we'll call 'Balance A'. Then 3 months into this offer you take out a new 6 month Money Transfer offer, which we'll call 'Balance B'.
Any payments you make to your credit card will be used to pay off Balance A. This is because you took out that offer first - even though the offer on Balance B will end sooner.
You'll start to pay off Balance B if:
- You completely clear Balance A, before Balance B ends; or
- The promotional rate on Balance B comes to an end, taking the rate of interest back up to a higher rate than Balance A.
So, it's always worth checking the 'Breakdown of your balance' section on your monthly statement to make sure you know which balances your payments will be going towards.
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You can make additional payments at any time to reduce your balance and any interest costs, but it’s important to understand how interest is charged and when it applies, particularly if you plan to pay off your balance in full.
Because interest is calculated daily and charged to your credit card statement when it’s produced each month, you may need to pay an amount of ‘residual interest’. This covers the interest calculated on your balance in the days between your statement being issued and you making a full statement balance payment.
Note that you can’t overpay to cover any potential residual interest. The amount may vary based on the interest rates which apply to portions of your outstanding balance, so the best thing to do it look out for your next statement and pay any outstanding interest then.
We don’t charge further interest when there’s only interest left to pay.
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You can send us a cheque by post. Please don’t send cash.
Make your cheque out to Bank of Scotland and remember to write your name and credit card number on the back. Send your completed cheque to:
Card Services
Bank of Scotland (190)
PO BOX 187
Sheffield
S98 1LJIf you’re posting a cheque, please allow at least 7 working days for it to reach your Bank of Scotland credit card account.
We don’t accept cheques made out for a date in the future (post-dated). These are usually returned. This can result in a missed payment and fees.
