Penalty APR for new Transactions (less than 60 days late). If you make a Late Payment and it's less than 60 days late or you have a Returned Payment, the penalty APR only will apply to new Transactions. We'll review your Account from time to time to determine if a penalty APR should be reduced.
Penalty APR for existing balances and new Transactions (60 or more days late). If we haven't received your Minimum Payment Due within 60 days after its due date, we may apply the penalty APR to both the existing balances and new Transactions. If you make your next six consecutive Minimum Payments Due on time, we'll stop applying the penalty APR to existing balances and new Transactions. If you don't make your next six consecutive Minimum Payments Due on time, the penalty APR may continue to apply indefinitely to existing balances and new Transactions.
Daily Balance
We calculate interest on your Account each Billing Period first by calculating your daily balances. The following explains how we do that.
Here's how and when Transactions, fees and credits are applied to the balances on your Account:
We add the amount of a Purchase or Balance Transfer to the Purchase balance as of the post date on your statement.
We add the amount of a Cash Advance to the Cash Advance balance as of the post date on your statement.
We add a Balance Transfer fee to the Purchase balance as of the post date on your statement.
We add the amount of any eligible Transaction under a Citi Flex Pay or a Citi Flex Loan to a Citi Flex Plan balance as of the post date on your statement. If you moved an amount from another balance within your Account to a Citi Flex Plan, we will credit the other balance in the amount you added to a Citi Flex Plan in order to avoid double counting that amount. If a Plan Fee applies, the first Plan Fee will be added to the Citi Flex Balance as of the end of the billing period in which the Plan was created. A Plan Fee will then be added to the Citi Flex Plan balance at the end of each subsequent billing period until the Plan is paid in full.
We add a Cash Advance fee to the Cash Advance balance as of the post date on your statement.
We'll add any other fees to the balance of our choice. If you're charged interest in a Billing Period, but the amount calculated is less than $0.50, we'll add additional interest to the balance(s) of our choice so that you'll be charged $0.50 in interest for that Billing Period.
We subtract credits and payments as of the post date shown on your statement.
Each balance may have a different APR. Certain categories of Transactions in a balance may have multiple APRs. For example, you may make a Purchase or Balance Transfer, or create a Citi Flex Plan, that's subject to a promotional APR. Your balances, and their corresponding APRs, are shown on your statement.
Note: The post date shown on your statement will usually be the date of the Transaction, but it may be later.
Here's how we calculate each of the daily Purchase, Cash Advance and Citi Flex Plan balances on your Account:
We start with the daily balance from the end of the previous day.
We add any new Transactions, fees and other charges, including interest accrued on the previous day's balance. This means that interest is compounded daily.
We subtract any credits or payments credited as of that day.
We make additional adjustments as appropriate, subject to applicable law (as an example, for a disputed charge).
This gives us the daily balance for that day.
Daily balance for purchases from the previous day
+ New purchases
+ Fees and interest accrued on the previous day's Purchase balance
- Payments, credits and adjustments posted that day
= New daily balance for Purchases
Interest Calculation
Each daily balance may have a different APR. Certain categories of Transactions in a daily balance may have multiple APRs. For example, you may make a Purchase or Balance Transfer that's subject to a promotional APR. If a daily balance on your Account is subject to an APR, we'll charge interest on that daily balance. We use the daily balance method (which includes new Transactions). If interest applies to a balance, it will start applying on the day a charge is added to that balance and continue until that balance is paid in full. We consider a credit balance as a balance of zero when calculating interest on that balance.
We multiply each daily balance by its applicable daily periodic rates (each applicable APR divided by 365).
We do this for each day in the Billing Period. This gives us the daily interest amounts.
Then we total all the daily interest amounts for all the daily balances. This gives us the total interest for the Billing Period.
Note: Your balances, and their corresponding APRs, are shown on your statement.
Calculating the New Balance
To calculate the New Balance at the end of each Billing Period, we begin with the total Account balance at the start of that Billing Period. Then we add any Transactions that are new to the Account during that Billing Period. Then we subtract any credits applied or payments made during that Billing Period. Then we add any interest charges or fees incurred during that Billing Period and make any other adjustments, as applicable (for example, if you have disputed a charge).
Grace Period on Purchases
You won't pay any interest on Purchases if you pay the Adjusted New Balance, including any Balance Transfers, plus any Citi Flex Plan Payment Amount, in full by the payment due date shown on your statement each Billing Period. We call this a grace period on purchases. If you don't pay your Adjusted New Balance in full, plus any Citi Flex Plan Payment Amount, by the payment due date in a Billing Period, you'll pay interest on your Purchases from the date they're posted to your Account. You also won't have a grace period on Purchases again until you pay the Adjusted New Balance in full, plus any Citi Flex Plan Payment Amount, by the payment due date 2 Billing Periods in a row.