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You can also make a payment GREATER than your current balance to cover a pending transaction that may post. I do that all the time. Does anyone know how a credit balance would affect AZEO? That is the only danger I see to paying a pending transaction before it posts.
Some cards won't allow one to pay an amount greater than one's current balance. Barclays is one of them. Others have restrictions, e.g. Capital One allows payments of up to 10% over the current balance.
Negative (credit) balances report as zero.
@HeavenOhio wrote:Some cards won't allow one to pay an amount greater than one's current balance. Barclays is one of them. Others have restrictions, e.g. Capital One allows payments of up to 10% over the current balance.
Negative (credit) balances report as zero.
Discover is the same way. Can't pay more than the current balance.
@Anonymous wrote:I have scoured the forums for the difference between due date and Statement date and the best way to optimize the AZEO strategy. After reading 100+ posts I am still confused. So I ask does any1 have a bare bones, talk to me like I'm a 5th grader primer?
Specifically I am going to pay my Cap1 card today, I want to get it down to the 9% threshold. Does that mean I shouldn't use it again until the 20th? Or have I already missed my window and $350 is going to hit my CR?
- Due Date: 2/16
- Cycle Close: 2/19
- Amount Due: 0.00
- Current Balance: $350
1. For scoring purposes, yes you shouldn't use the card again until the 20th, and the balance from the January 19th statement is the one that will be reported. However since you've waited so long to make your payment it may or may not be reflected in the statement balance.
2. For financial purposes, you should have paid it before the due date, and could possibly have forfeited your grace period.
Next time don't cut it so close.
@Anonymous wrote:
Thanks for the fast reply. I have a better understanding now. As long as the balance is paid b4 the statement cut date I will be AZEO compliant?
No because there's no guarantee that a payment so close to the statement date will be reflected in the statement balance.
@MakingProgress wrote:You can also make a payment GREATER than your current balance to cover a pending transaction that may post. I do that all the time. Does anyone know how a credit balance would affect AZEO? That is the only danger I see to paying a pending transaction before it posts.
I do that frequently. A credit balance is reported as a zero balance.
@HeavenOhio wrote:Some cards won't allow one to pay an amount greater than one's current balance. Barclays is one of them. Others have restrictions, e.g. Capital One allows payments of up to 10% over the current balance.
Negative (credit) balances report as zero.
Most of them won't allow you to pull a payment greater than the balance, but they can't stop you from pushing the payment to them.
@Anonymous wrote:
Last question, should the balance be 8.9% of that card or of my total available credit across cards? My total available credit is $4650 so that would be > $413 to achieve 8.9% but I am using a card with a $3700 CL so should I make my total reported > $329?
It's best to have overall utilization at 8.9% or less.
It's important to have individual utilization at 28% or less, but better to have it even lower.
@SouthJamaica wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Last question, should the balance be 8.9% of that card or of my total available credit across cards? My total available credit is $4650 so that would be > $413 to achieve 8.9% but I am using a card with a $3700 CL so should I make my total reported > $329?It's best to have overall utilization at 8.9% or less.
It's important to have individual utilization at 28% or less, but better to have it even lower.
I hope you are taking note of SouthJ's last post (above). It sounds like you were mistakenly thinking you need AT LEAST 8.99%. The opposite is true. You want to have LESS than 8.99%
Furthermore, a tiny balance (like $8 on a credit limit of $10,000) will be rounded up to 1% by FICO. So you are free to have ultralow utilization and it will still be considered in the 1-8% range. Really tiny balances (like 88 cents) are often reported as $0, so the general wisdom here is to make a card's balance $5 or more if you want it reporting a positive balance. (And remember all you need is one card with a positive balance.)