The derogs reported by the orginal creditor, including any monthly delinquencies, repo, or charge-off, have credit report exclusion dates that are unrelated to whether or not the debt has been paid. Thus, paying or non-payment of the debt will not affect credit report exclusion.
More specifically, any monthly delinquencies will become excluded no later than 7 years from their month/year of occurence, and the reported charge-off will become excluded no later than 7 years plus 180 days from the date of your first delinquency that preceded the charge-off.
If you were sued by the debt collector, then they likely purchased the debt from the original creditor.
If/when the credtior sold the debt, they should have promptly updated the balance to show $0, so no update by the creditor will likely be required.
If the creditor does still own the debt, then the debt collector is legally required to notify them once the debt has been paid, and the creditor must then update the reported debt balance to $0.
