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Repayment Calculator: Online Debt Pay Off Calculator

abhijeet — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:10:41 +0000

There are a number of debt pay off calculators available online but this one comes directly from none other than the United States Federal Reserve. They call it the Federal Reserve’s Credit Card Repayment Calculator and it helps you quickly calculate how long you would take to pay off your credit card debt assuming that you make no more charges and you clear only the minimum dues each month.

Features:

Quickly calculate credit card repayment time.
Provided by the US Federal Reserve.
Also tells you the total interest charges you will incur.
Simple and easy to use.
Other similar calculators: WhatsTheCost and Loan Repayment Calc.

Check out RepaymentCalculator @ www.federalreserve.gov/creditcardcalculator (via Lifehacker) (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

WhatsTheCost: Free Financial Calculators

azim — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:59:22 +0000

WhatsTheCost contains free financial calculators, which let you calculate the “true” long-term costs of financial products such as loans, mortgages, credit cards etc., and costly habits such drinking and smoking. Reduce your debt faster by calculating how much you could save by overpaying on a mortgage, which debts to pay down first and more.

Some of their calculators:

- “Buy It Or Not” calculator: tell you whether you should buy an item based on how much you need it, its investment worth and your current cash flow.

Features:

Online financial calculators to better manage your finances.
Reduce your spendings and get rid of debt faster by calculating the true long term costs of various financial products (mortgages, loans, credit cars) and costly habits (smoking, drinking).
Similar sites: Loan Repayment Calculator, MaraCal and Mookal.

Check out WhatsTheCost @ www.whatsthecost.com

Paystr: Easily Collect Payments From People Online

azim — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:06:36 +0000

Paystr is online peer-to-peer debt tracker which makes it easy to collect payments and debts from friends, family and clients. Service is free and all the transactions are securely handled by eBay owned PayPal.

First you need to sign up and create one or more payment listings, which are accessible from your own webpage at http://username.paystr.com. You then share this URL with people who owe you money in order to collect payments. They can pay for listed items with one click or enter the amount they owe using the “I Owe U Listing” field.

See demo video:

Features:

Easily collect and pay debts and make due payments online.
Collect payments from friends, family and clients in advance by sharing your personalized payment URL.
Accept PayPal and credit card payments.
Create multiple payment listings.
Free, sign up to setup your listings.

Check out Paystr @ www.paystr.com