Credit card installment payment refers to the process that when the cardholder uses the credit card to make a large amount of consumption, the bank pays the consumer funds of the goods (or services) purchased by the cardholder to the merchant in one lump sum, and then the cardholder repays the money to the bank in installments and pays the handling fee. According to the cardholder's application, the bank will deduct the consumption funds and handling fees by stages through the cardholder's credit card account, and the cardholder will repay according to the amount recorded every month.
In the early days of credit card installment business, banks often advertised under the banner of "interest-free", and many citizens were really fooled. In fact, interest-free is not free, but a different name.
Generally speaking, the handling fee of credit card installment 1 year is lower than the annual cash withdrawal interest 18%, and higher than the bank commercial loan interest 1 year 5.3 1%. It is worth mentioning that the loan interest rate of commercial banks has been lowered many times since last year, but the standards of credit card installment fees and cash withdrawal interest have rarely changed. Although different banks have different standards for credit card installment fees, the calculation method is roughly the same.